Oh what a feeling – rear-drive performance Camry

Alas this  Camry-sourced drag car, which can reach speeds of up to 354km/h and covers the 0-100km/h sprint in under a second has little in common with the  roadgoing car of the same name.

The Camry drag car is the quickest in its class in Australia and will tackle the quarter-mile in less than 6.5 seconds thanks to its 3.2-litre 1342kW inline six-cylinder Toyota 2JZ turbocharged engine.

Queensland-based driver Tony Wedlock admits he is overawed by the performance of the Camry.

He describes it as an "absolute animal of a car" - not a phrase one often hears from Camry drivers.

Now if they could only make it street legal...