Toyota Camry

The Toyota Camry V6 will be axed early next year, following in the tyre tracks of the Holden Commodore and Ford Falcon – and marking an end to the affordable six-cylinder sedan era. Toyota dealers in Australia have been advised the Camry V6 will be discontinued when the facelift model arrives in the first half of next year. The last production run for the Toyota Camry V6 out of Japan will be in January.

The Toyota Camry has come in for a mid-life facelift, and the changes are more than skin deep. Beyond a subtle redesign of the front bumper, the 2021 Toyota Camry range will gain more advanced safety features, a tablet-style infotainment screen in the middle of the dash, and hybrid versions will get a lithium-ion battery pack.

Toyota Australia (TMCA) is aiming for one-in-five of all vehicles it sells to be fuel-saving petrol-electric hybrid cars, within a time frame of just two years. Based on current sales volumes, this equates to about 42,000 sales of Toyota hybrid cars in 2020, figures that seemed scarcely plausible even a few years ago given Australia’s slow take-up of environmentally friendly cars.