28 Facts About Toyota Vista

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

The Toyota Vista Ardeo was a wagon version of the Toyota Vista V50.

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

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

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

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From 1998, the Toyota Vista ended its Camry alignment, and instead branched into an independent model line with the V50 series for an extra generation before the nameplate was withdrawn in 2003.

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

Toyota Vista started production of the first generation series Camry in March 1982 at the Tsutsumi plant.

Five-door liftback versions of the Toyota Vista came to the market in August 1982, although outside of export markets the Camry remained exclusively a sedan.

Development of the V10 series Camry and Toyota Vista began in August 1977 following the 1973 oil crisis and would later cover the 1979 crisis.

Toyota Vista 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 Vista 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 Vista 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.

V20 Camry and Toyota Vista sedans continued with the four-door sedan configuration.

The Toyota Vista launched with a four-door pillared hardtop sedan with unique body panels all-round in lieu of the liftback offered with the previous car—a body extended to the Camry in August 1988.

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

The Toyota Vista was not available with the V6, but in April 1987, the special edition Toyota Vista VL Extra sedan and hardtop arrived, followed by the Etoile in August and again in January 1989; limited edition Etoile V cars were offered in September 1989 and January 1990.

Toyota Vista Australia released the second generation Camry in April 1987.

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

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

The Toyota Vista twin continued on, although the Camry Prominent hardtop was no longer offered; only the Vista was available as a hardtop.

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

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

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

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Toyota Vista replaced the compact V20 Camry with the Japanese market-only V30 series in 1990.

Many insiders of Toyota Vista 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 Vista, believed the model had to be developed to develop buyers who would become interested in Lexus.

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