Lights, Camry, activity: two thousand eighteen Toyota Camry is anything but boring
America’s best-selling car gets a accomplish redesign to take the two thousand eighteen Toyota Camry from boring to something like sexy.
America’s best-selling car gets a finish redesign to take the two thousand eighteen Toyota Camry from boring to something like sexy.
Neighbors flagged it down in the middle of the street. Friends asked for a rail. The teenager in the parking lot stopped and gaped. “Is that the 2018?” It was not the latest Porsche turning goes, nor was it some high-revving supercar or ultra-luxe land yacht — it was the two thousand eighteen Toyota Camry.
It’s not the typical head turner, yet America’s best-selling car for the past fifteen years has captured garages and parking catches sight of unlike any other vehicle aside from pickup trucks. Enthusiasts and critics deride it as nothing more than an appliance, but those who matter most — the ones buying the cars — choose the midsize sedan’s accessibility, reliability and overall value.
two thousand eighteen Toyota Camry XSE at a glance
Base price: $34,950 As tested: $36,960 (excluding $895 delivery)
EPA MPG: twenty two city, thirty two highway
Powertrain: Trio.5-liter V-6 with 8-speed automatic to front wheels
Parting shot: America’s best-selling car gets edgier.
Its popularity has also contributed to its latest demise, with conservative and almost indiscernible refreshes as other automakers dramatically restyled their midsize sedans to contest not only with the Camry but also to stop the sales slide away from sedans to crossovers.
Through July 2017, Camry has been outsold by the excellent Honda Civic compact, which was aggressively redesigned for 2016, winning North American Car of the Year honors.
HISTORY OF THE TOYOTA CAMRY: A historical look at the Toyota Camry, launched in one thousand nine hundred eighty three and rising to become America’s best-selling car for the past fifteen years. Toyota launched the eighth-generation two thousand eighteen Camry at the North American International Auto Demonstrate in Detroit on Monday, January 9, 2017. Read the review of the two thousand eighteen CAMRY XSE>>>
Last redesigned in 2012, the eighth-generation Camry was overdue. It’s common for sales of a car model to slide at the end of its product cycle as consumers anticipate the next big thing, but the Camry is down almost ten percent from last year at this time. The Honda Accord, which just debuted a sleek fresh fastback style for 2018, was down only five percent by comparison.
Toyota didn’t get to be the world’s largest automaker by disregarding such things.
“Now I know calling a Camry ‘sexy’ might be overstating it for some,” Toyota President and racer Akio Toyoda announced in January at the North American International Auto Showcase in Detroit. “But I truly do believe our designers hit it out of the park this time.”
The wheelbase is opened up two inches, and the height and seating position is lowered an inch to maintain headroom. The lowered bondage mask, combined with the broad grille and wheels shoved to the edges, gives it the low and broad stance attributed to sport sedans.
The XSE, and the reaction it got in our week around town, best embodies Toyota’s intent. Very first suggested in the refreshed two thousand fifteen model, the XSE is the most sporting of five trim levels. It’s also the priciest, coming in at $Ten,000 more than the base model but loaded with everything.
If you don’t know what car your roomy wields, chances are it is a Honda Civic or Toyota Corolla. The two best-selling compact sedans in the U.S. are reliable, fuel-efficient values that don’t stand out much from the large-but-shrinking compact segment. But Honda wants its redesigned two thousand sixteen Civic.
If you don’t know what car your roomie possesses, chances are it is a Honda Civic or Toyota Corolla. The two best-selling compact sedans in the U.S. are reliable, fuel-efficient values that don’t stand out much from the large-but-shrinking compact segment. But Honda wants its redesigned two thousand sixteen Civic.
XSE comes with more pronounced rocker panels to emphasize the longer wheelbase, 19-inch blacked-out wheels come standard and the fascia has larger air intakes reminiscent of the fresh Civic. The X-wing grille, with a broad mouth on the bottom, is an approximation of the Lexus spindle grille. There’s a lot going on up front, maybe too much, but it’s anything but boring.
The most sporting element in the fresh Camry XSE is something the fresh Honda Accord won’t have: a V-6 engine.
Sedans aren’t selling but Honda is doing everything in its power to switch that. Very first with the radically redesigned two thousand sixteen Honda Civic compact sedan, which won the North American Car of the Year, and now with the two thousand eighteen Honda Accord midsize sedan.
The tenth-generation Accord comes with a sloped fastback.
Sedans aren’t selling but Honda is doing everything in its power to switch that. Very first with the radically redesigned two thousand sixteen Honda Civic compact sedan, which won the North American Car of the Year, and now with the two thousand eighteen Honda Accord midsize sedan.
The tenth-generation Accord comes with a sloped fastback.
The motor kicks out three hundred one horsepower and two hundred sixty seven pound-feet of torque from the front wheels, increases of thirty three horsepower and nineteen pound-feet over the old six. It’s responsive and has a nice low rumble at around Three,000 rpm. It’ll surprise Camry doubters from the line, and pleases all reasonable passing moves. It feels more direct and capable than most turbocharged four-cylinders we’ve tested. It’s an interesting play by Toyota, sticking with the V-6 Americans love even as most other automakers — including its chief rival — have ditched it for the more efficient turbo four.
Paired to the quick-shifting eight-speed transmission, the fresh high air-flow powertrain is more efficient by two mpg, to twenty six mpg combined.
The radical makeover carries over inwards, which uses a nice balance of layered soft-touch materials. The dash is defined by what Toyota calls a waterfall element, with the driver’s side and passenger side tapering together in a Y at the center console, where the grab treat is in sports coupes. The focal point is a glossy, glasslike center stack that is fatter on ambition than good use of real estate. Above the sleek climate buttons is Toyota’s familiar 8-inch touch screen flanked by four silver bar buttons on both sides. If drivers using their phones while driving is a bad idea, then drivers using a tablet-sized touchscreen is a worse idea. I don’t like touch screens, especially Toyota’s. The font choice and layout would feel fresh only if you haven’t shopped for a car in a decade. The functionality is limited, the navigation buttons still too narrowly and oddly placed, and aesthetically it’s not as freshly executed as the rest of the interior.
The fresh 7-inch information display inbetween the cluster alleviates some of the need to use the touch screen, but here too the real estate is wasted on icons for advanced safety features that you can’t do much with other than shut on and off. It’s not a deal breaker, just a prayer for Toyota to get with the infotainment times. It’s the kind of system you set everything once and hope you don’t have to bother with it again. And it can’t be overridden with Apple Car Play or Android Auto, which are not suggested.
Sedan sales are cratering due to the crossover boom. That concerns no automaker as much as Toyota, which sells America’s best-selling sedan, the Camry. Crossovers aren’t the only thing eating away at Toyota’s car sales; it’s the stigma of being boring. With a charge from company president and family.
Sedan sales are cratering due to the crossover boom. That concerns no automaker as much as Toyota, which sells America’s best-selling sedan, the Camry. Crossovers aren’t the only thing eating away at Toyota’s car sales; it’s the stigma of being boring. With a charge from company president and family.
The price might seem steep for the XSE, but that’s about the average price Americans are paying for a fresh car. And when you consider the safety features that come standard, and the potent V-6 at a time of diminishing engine choices, the fresh Camry proves its worth inwards and out. Is it enough to regain its best-selling car claim from the Civic before year’s end? Based on the initial impressions around the neighborhood, yes.
2018 Toyota Camry XSE at a glance
Vehicle type: Midsize sedan
As tested: $36,960 (excluding $895 delivery)
EPA MPG: twenty two city, thirty two highway
Transmission: 8-speed automatic
Parting shot: America’s best-selling car gets fresh life.
Lights, Camry, act: two thousand eighteen Toyota Camry is anything but boring – Chicago Tribune
Lights, Camry, activity: two thousand eighteen Toyota Camry is anything but boring
America’s best-selling car gets a finish redesign to take the two thousand eighteen Toyota Camry from boring to something like sexy.
America’s best-selling car gets a finish redesign to take the two thousand eighteen Toyota Camry from boring to something like sexy.
Neighbors flagged it down in the middle of the street. Friends asked for a rail. The teenager in the parking lot stopped and gaped. “Is that the 2018?” It was not the latest Porsche turning goes, nor was it some high-revving supercar or ultra-luxe land yacht — it was the two thousand eighteen Toyota Camry.
It’s not the typical head turner, yet America’s best-selling car for the past fifteen years has captured garages and parking catches sight of unlike any other vehicle aside from pickup trucks. Enthusiasts and critics deride it as nothing more than an appliance, but those who matter most — the ones buying the cars — choose the midsize sedan’s accessibility, reliability and overall value.
two thousand eighteen Toyota Camry XSE at a glance
Base price: $34,950 As tested: $36,960 (excluding $895 delivery)
EPA MPG: twenty two city, thirty two highway
Powertrain: Three.5-liter V-6 with 8-speed automatic to front wheels
Parting shot: America’s best-selling car gets edgier.
Its popularity has also contributed to its latest demise, with conservative and almost indiscernible refreshes as other automakers dramatically restyled their midsize sedans to contest not only with the Camry but also to stop the sales slide away from sedans to crossovers.
Through July 2017, Camry has been outsold by the excellent Honda Civic compact, which was aggressively redesigned for 2016, winning North American Car of the Year honors.
HISTORY OF THE TOYOTA CAMRY: A historical look at the Toyota Camry, launched in one thousand nine hundred eighty three and rising to become America’s best-selling car for the past fifteen years. Toyota launched the eighth-generation two thousand eighteen Camry at the North American International Auto Showcase in Detroit on Monday, January 9, 2017. Read the review of the two thousand eighteen CAMRY XSE>>>
Last redesigned in 2012, the eighth-generation Camry was overdue. It’s common for sales of a car model to slide at the end of its product cycle as consumers anticipate the next big thing, but the Camry is down almost ten percent from last year at this time. The Honda Accord, which just debuted a sleek fresh fastback style for 2018, was down only five percent by comparison.
Toyota didn’t get to be the world’s largest automaker by overlooking such things.
“Now I know calling a Camry ‘sexy’ might be overstating it for some,” Toyota President and racer Akio Toyoda announced in January at the North American International Auto Demonstrate in Detroit. “But I truly do believe our designers hit it out of the park this time.”
The wheelbase is spread two inches, and the height and seating position is lowered an inch to maintain headroom. The lowered fetish mask, combined with the broad grille and wheels shoved to the edges, gives it the low and broad stance attributed to sport sedans.
The XSE, and the reaction it got in our week around town, best embodies Toyota’s intent. Very first suggested in the refreshed two thousand fifteen model, the XSE is the most sporting of five trim levels. It’s also the priciest, coming in at $Ten,000 more than the base model but loaded with everything.
If you don’t know what car your roomie wields, chances are it is a Honda Civic or Toyota Corolla. The two best-selling compact sedans in the U.S. are reliable, fuel-efficient values that don’t stand out much from the large-but-shrinking compact segment. But Honda wants its redesigned two thousand sixteen Civic.
If you don’t know what car your roomy possesses, chances are it is a Honda Civic or Toyota Corolla. The two best-selling compact sedans in the U.S. are reliable, fuel-efficient values that don’t stand out much from the large-but-shrinking compact segment. But Honda wants its redesigned two thousand sixteen Civic.
XSE comes with more pronounced rocker panels to emphasize the longer wheelbase, 19-inch blacked-out wheels come standard and the fascia has larger air intakes reminiscent of the fresh Civic. The X-wing grille, with a broad mouth on the bottom, is an approximation of the Lexus spindle grille. There’s a lot going on up front, maybe too much, but it’s anything but boring.
The most sporting element in the fresh Camry XSE is something the fresh Honda Accord won’t have: a V-6 engine.
Sedans aren’t selling but Honda is doing everything in its power to switch that. Very first with the radically redesigned two thousand sixteen Honda Civic compact sedan, which won the North American Car of the Year, and now with the two thousand eighteen Honda Accord midsize sedan.
The tenth-generation Accord comes with a sloped fastback.
Sedans aren’t selling but Honda is doing everything in its power to switch that. Very first with the radically redesigned two thousand sixteen Honda Civic compact sedan, which won the North American Car of the Year, and now with the two thousand eighteen Honda Accord midsize sedan.
The tenth-generation Accord comes with a sloped fastback.
The motor kicks out three hundred one horsepower and two hundred sixty seven pound-feet of torque from the front wheels, increases of thirty three horsepower and nineteen pound-feet over the old six. It’s responsive and has a nice low rumble at around Trio,000 rpm. It’ll surprise Camry doubters from the line, and pleases all reasonable passing moves. It feels more direct and capable than most turbocharged four-cylinders we’ve tested. It’s an interesting play by Toyota, sticking with the V-6 Americans love even as most other automakers — including its chief rival — have ditched it for the more efficient turbo four.
Paired to the quick-shifting eight-speed transmission, the fresh high air-flow powertrain is more efficient by two mpg, to twenty six mpg combined.
The radical makeover carries over inwards, which uses a nice balance of layered soft-touch materials. The dash is defined by what Toyota calls a waterfall element, with the driver’s side and passenger side tapering together in a Y at the center console, where the grab treat is in sports coupes. The focal point is a glossy, glasslike center stack that is thicker on ambition than good use of real estate. Above the sleek climate buttons is Toyota’s familiar 8-inch touch screen flanked by four silver bar buttons on both sides. If drivers using their phones while driving is a bad idea, then drivers using a tablet-sized touchscreen is a worse idea. I don’t like touch screens, especially Toyota’s. The font choice and layout would feel fresh only if you haven’t shopped for a car in a decade. The functionality is limited, the navigation buttons still too narrowly and oddly placed, and aesthetically it’s not as freshly executed as the rest of the interior.
The fresh 7-inch information display inbetween the cluster alleviates some of the need to use the touch screen, but here too the real estate is wasted on icons for advanced safety features that you can’t do much with other than shut on and off. It’s not a deal breaker, just a prayer for Toyota to get with the infotainment times. It’s the kind of system you set everything once and hope you don’t have to bother with it again. And it can’t be overridden with Apple Car Play or Android Auto, which are not suggested.
Sedan sales are cratering due to the crossover boom. That concerns no automaker as much as Toyota, which sells America’s best-selling sedan, the Camry. Crossovers aren’t the only thing eating away at Toyota’s car sales; it’s the stigma of being boring. With a charge from company president and family.
Sedan sales are cratering due to the crossover boom. That concerns no automaker as much as Toyota, which sells America’s best-selling sedan, the Camry. Crossovers aren’t the only thing eating away at Toyota’s car sales; it’s the stigma of being boring. With a charge from company president and family.
The price might seem steep for the XSE, but that’s about the average price Americans are paying for a fresh car. And when you consider the safety features that come standard, and the potent V-6 at a time of diminishing engine choices, the fresh Camry proves its worth inwards and out. Is it enough to regain its best-selling car claim from the Civic before year’s end? Based on the initial impressions around the neighborhood, yes.
2018 Toyota Camry XSE at a glance
Vehicle type: Midsize sedan
As tested: $36,960 (excluding $895 delivery)
EPA MPG: twenty two city, thirty two highway
Transmission: 8-speed automatic
Parting shot: America’s best-selling car gets fresh life.