Comments on: Fuel economy gain for Toyota Camry

By: Tomas79

Tomas79 — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 16:08:34 +0000

I reckon they should get rid of the camry altogether, and bring in the Toyota avensis from Europe instead.
The Avensis comes in diesel and wagon and looks much better all around!!

By: Steve-Poyza

Steve-Poyza — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 10:10:40 +0000

TomR, I actually agree with you on the note of SUV’s. I like wagons, especially europeans. Renault Laguna Tourer anyone? Imagine a Toyota Camry wagn. That’d be interesting. Also imagine a somewhat sporty Camry (and I don’t mean just a little bodykit) with good handling, AWD, aggressive styling and lots of luxury kit just like TomR said. Wow! Thats definitely not a Toyota…

By: Carl

Carl — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 09:51:17 +0000

Lies!!!!! Toyota’s claimed fuel consumption numbers on all their models are never achievable in the real world, but the sort of people that buy these cars are too dumb to care anyway.

By: TomR

TomR — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 12:09:42 +0000

I’d love the TRD model to come back, but could they put a LITTLE bit of effort into it and offer the thing with an AWD platform. RWD would be silly, far too expensive, make it AWD and offer a similar yet different niche to High Performance Falcodore owners/possible buyers.

Toyota really is just a boring manufacturer, and it WORKS. I would adore a nice sports car from them with the 3.5 six, like the Evora!!! But a new Supra!
But would they make money from it?

The over-bearing point in these comments seems to be that we want a Stationwagon.
I would rather be seen driving a Territory over a Falcon stationwagon, but to be honest, i’d still buy the Falcon stationwagon.
Why the hell do we all need these SUV’s when hardly anyone takes them off road? My dad bought a Tribute, quite a capable SUV, took it on sand once and the transmission went haywire -12k replacement-.
I WANT WAGONS!!!

P.S. Dear Toyota.
I understand your cars must be boring
But can you explain the ancient drivetrain in half your range? If you can do the Prius, you can do something half decent with a Corolla or Camry. If there was the tiniest spark of excitement within a Corolla, i’d buy it (say… a new Sportivo like the ’03 model, wink wink, nudge nudge). Bloody brilliant cars. But brilliant in the way that my washing machine is brilliant. Does what it says it does and never breaks.
Wow.

By: Toxic_Horse

Toxic_Horse — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 06:23:38 +0000

I think there is a huge market out there for a low cost RWD 4 cylinder. It wouldn’t’ even need to be particularly good. Just make it cheap and low tech (easy to modify) boy racers the world over will love it.

By: Lukaas

Lukaas — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 04:18:14 +0000

Yeah but Wheelnut, creating a Camry from a RWD is going backwards.
They had RWD sedan platforms back in the 80s.
You have to understand, engineering automotive mass production cars take to account assembly/manufacturability costs more so than performance.

Front wheel drive cars are just much more efficient assembly wise and parts component quanity wise.

Theres a reason why japanese companies ell RWD sedans on a premium price. GM, Ford sell RWD at affordable costs as they compromise the technology aspect of the chassis and underbody structures, basically they compromise somewhere in the car to make up for the RWD and big-as engine setup.

And if anything, if push comes to shove, Toyota can always re-engineer along with Subaru, the Impreza/Liberty platform chassis and configure them for RWD setup… affordable RWD platform.. BUT, still it’ll cost millions on R&D and currently its not gonna fly among Toyota execs at Japan…. however, a new vehicle altogether to cater to other markets… ahem.. sports… well thats different story.

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 03:31:10 +0000

Why dosnt Toyota bring back the Camry wagon, we all dont want to drive little hatches or cumbersome SUVs

By: FrugalOne

FrugalOne — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 03:24:51 +0000

The Realist^^^^

*Almost* spot on, this car, the Toyota V12 Century, is not only the best BigT[tm.f-0] ever built, but the world’s best passenger sedan, MILES in front of a RR or Maybach etc

Never seen a car company take so much care trying to make a 100-point perfect car like this, 9 days to build one vehicle buy a group of hand picked experienced technicians.

Think premium top of the line Lexus LS series, and move the yardstick further foward, by a long way.

Simply amazing vehicle, check out the video, and the hand-carved badge on it!, like jewellery!

C/A should do a review on it and visit the manufactory in Japan, happy to carry the bags for them!

www youtube com/watch?v=s1erJ1eVmLo

Cheers,

F-0

Leone (THE FERAL DOG) Says:

“Toyota doesn’t rest on it’s laurels”

So a minor software tweak, that could have been done at any time, only happens when you need to beat a larger 6cyl car is being proactive or reactive?

Toyota……resting on its laurels again.

By: Hagar

Hagar — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 02:45:30 +0000

I had a 2008 Camry V6 hire car and tested at 110km/h and over exactly 100km distance without stopping or changing speed (Karrgulin to Brookton) got 14l/100km.