Toyota Avalon

The Toyota Avalon is a full-size car produced by Toyota in the United States, and is the flagship sedan of Toyota in the United States, Canada and the Middle East. It was also produced in Australia, up until July 2005, and was later replaced in November 2006 by the Toyota Aurion. It is produced as a front-wheel drive four-door sedan. The first Toyota Avalon rolled off the assembly line in Georgetown, Kentucky on February 21, 1994 as a 1995 model. A second generation model was released in the United States and Japan in 1999. In 2000, the Toyota Avalon was the first Toyota model to feature a non-touchscreen navigation system.

The Avalon filled the gap left by the cancellation of the Toyota Cressida in the American market in 1992. While the Cressida was an upper-level mid-size, rear-wheel drive car with a straight-6 engine, the Avalon is front-wheel drive and powered by a V6 engine. (The Toyota Camry, which was slotted below the Cressida and Avalon, was initially a compact but later stretched to midsize, hence the reason why the Avalon was introduced as a large car.)

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