42 Facts About Toyota Camry

Toyota Camry is an automobile sold internationally by the Japanese auto manufacturer Toyota since 1982, spanning multiple generations.

Originally compact in size, the Toyota Camry has grown since the 1990s to fit the mid-size classification —although the two widths co-existed in that decade.

Between 1979 and 1982, the Toyota Camry nameplate was delegated to a four-door sedan model in Japan, known as the Celica Toyota Camry.

When Camry became an independent model line in 1982 with the V10 series, Toyota made it available as a five-door liftback in addition to the sedan.

Toyota Camry replaced the V20 in 1990 with the V30 sedan and hardtop, but this model series was exclusive to Japan.

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However, overseas demand for a larger Toyota Camry resulted in the development of a wide-body XV10 sedan and station wagon that arrived in 1991.

Toyota Camry then issued an XV10-bodied coupe in 1993 that was spun off in 1998 as an independent model line, titled Camry Solara.

The rebadged Camry variant for Japan, the Toyota Scepter —took its name from "scepter", a royal accessory to a crown.

Strictly speaking, Celica Toyota Camry is not the first generation of Toyota Camry, but rather its predecessor.

Celica Toyota Camry uses the front-engine, rear-wheel-drive layout and in A40 guise, a standard four-link rigid axle suspension system with gasoline inline-four engines displacing 1.

Unlike the preceding Celica Toyota Camry, exports were achieved with the first generation Toyota Camry to Australia, Europe and North America.

Toyota Camry then began investigating the option of building a US production facility, following the announcements in January and April 1980 by Honda and Nissan, respectively, to manufacture automobiles locally.

Toyota advocated that its Camry be manufactured at a Ford factory and sold through the sales channels of both brands, but Ford deemed Camry to be in competition with a model it was developing, which became the Ford Tempo, leading to an impasse and then the cessation of negotiations in July 1981.

Toyota Camry then offered DX and LE trim levels, the latter adding standard features such as body-colored bumpers, tachometer, tilt steering wheel, upgraded stereo, electric mirrors and variable intermittent windscreen wipers.

Toyota Camry rushed the ES 250 as a stopgap measure to flesh out the fledgling Lexus lineup so as not to launch the flagship LS 400 as a stand-alone model.

Toyota Camry designed the body with aerodynamics in mind, with performance of Cd=0.

When launched in Japan, the V20 series Toyota Camry offered the following trim levels: LT, XT, XT Saloon, ZE, ZT, ZX, and GT.

Toyota Camry discontinued the Vista VC in December 1989 and released a special edition VX Limited in May 1989 and then again for January 1990.

Special editions for the Toyota Camry comprised: Lumiere S sedan, Prominent X hardtop, Lumiere G sedan, and XT Saloon Special sedan .

Three trim levels of the V20 Toyota Camry were made: the unbadged base model, the DX, and the LE.

In May 1991, Toyota Camry made the fuel-injected 3S-FE version standard upon the carbureted engine's deletion, and the CS trim level became CSi.

The Used Car Safety Ratings, published in 2008 by the Monash University Accident Research Centre, found that V20 Toyota Camry models provide an "average" level of occupant safety protection in the event of an accident.

Holden Apollo, a rebadged variant to the Toyota Camry, retailed in Australia alongside the facelifted Camry V20 series from August 1989.

Toyota Camry V40 appeared in July 1994 exclusively for the Japanese market.

Toyota Camry flipped the engine orientation so that the intake manifold is in front, improving space efficiency.

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Production for the Vista ended in September 2003, as Toyota Camry prepared to rename the Vista dealers as the Toyota Camry Netz dealership network.

The move to simplify Toyota Camry's dealership came in light of the pending Lexus launch in Japan, planned for August 2005.

Notable point of the "Wide body" SXV10 Toyota Camry is the influence of engineering developed from the launch of Lexus and the LS400, which came to market just a few years prior to its public debut.

However, the LS400 and the SXV10 Toyota Camry featured no sharing of powertrain layout nor design.

Many insiders of Toyota argued even after critical acclaim that the SXV10 Camry overlapped too greatly with Lexus, even though Chris Hostetter, current vice president of advanced technology research at Toyota, believed the model had to be developed to develop buyers who would become interested in Lexus.

Japanese V30 model was replaced by the Toyota Camry V40 in 1994 this was a Japan-only model.

Toyota Camry redesigned this series from the ground up for the first time since the V30 and XV10.

Until the 2003 model year, the Toyota Camry Solara remained on the XV20 series chassis, and received only minor styling upgrades to the front and rear ends.

Between 2006 and 2010, the regular Toyota Camry was rebadged as the Daihatsu Altis model, which sold alongside the Toyota Camry in Japan.

XV40 Toyota Camry was introduced at the 2006 North American International Auto Show alongside a hybrid version and went on sale in March 2006 for the 2007 model year.

Toyota Camry was facelifted in early 2009 for the 2010 model year with a redesigned fascia, taillights, and an all-new 2.

XV50 Camry was produced from 21 August 2011, introduced on 23 August 2011, and began U S sales in September 2011.

US Toyota Camry carried over three different engine choices from the previous model.

The "prestige" Toyota Camry was discontinued in Southeast Asia and India in late 2018, but continued to be sold in Vietnam until April 2019.

Latest Toyota Camry, which is the eighth generation of the global Toyota Camry model, and known as the XV70, was introduced at the January 2017 North American International Auto Show.

The Toyota Camry has profited within its medium-sized class, where it has been its best selling since 1993, beating traditional competitors including the Mazda 6, as well as contemporary ones in that of the Ford Mondeo and Skoda Superb.

The Middle East, as well as Eastern Europe, each have seen the Toyota Camry sell well, with Western Europe previously having small amounts exported.