THE facelifted Toyota Camry mid-size sedan vary is now on sale in Australia priced from $30,990 plus on-road prices – and solely one of many 5 variants comes with out a hybrid drivetrain.
Costs are up between $1700 and $4200 throughout the board, with Toyota in return upgrading commonplace security applied sciences by including highway signal recognition, lane-centring help, intersection collision avoidance, emergency steering help and Toyota’s Linked Companies telematics system.
The latter can mechanically alert emergency providers with car location knowledge within the occasion of an accident severe sufficient to activate the airbags and features a stolen car monitoring perform. Handbook emergency requests can be made utilizing an onboard SOS button.
On the entry-level Ascent petrol – the one variant now obtainable with a non-hybrid choice – a helpful 19kW/22Nm enhance in energy and torque comes courtesy of its upgraded 2.5-litre four-cylinder petrol engine that produces 152kW and 243Nm.
With direct injection and a excessive 13:1 compression ratio, the engine can nonetheless function on 91 RON common unleaded and returns 6.8 litres per 100km on the official mixed cycle, down from 7.8L/100km in its predecessor, helped by the change from a six- to eight-speed computerized transmission.
A complete system output of 160kW stays for the hybrid, as do gas consumption figures between 4.2L/100km and 4.5L/100km relying on the variant, whereas the sports-oriented SX variant will get a hybrid for the primary time with this facelift and consumes 4.7L/100km.
As regards to Camry SX, all V6 engines have been dumped together with all four-cylinder petrols other than the Ascent, consolidating the vary from 9 variants to 5.
Styling updates embody a brand new grille and entrance bumper design that on the bottom Ascent options horizontal slats and a honeycomb mesh on different variants, which additionally get a distinct decrease bumper design with full-width chin spoiler and extra trim items that subtly mimic the Lexus ‘spindle grille’.
Going for the Ascent hybrid prices an additional $2500 over the petrol. Along with fuel-saving advantages, the electrified model positive factors dual-zone local weather management over the petrol’s primary guide air-conditioning set-up, in addition to keyless entry and begin. However the hybrid has a space-saver spare wheel as an alternative of the petrol’s full-size alloy merchandise.
Tools is in any other case an identical for the Ascent variants, with the urethane steering wheel and fabric seats befitting a base mannequin. Adjustment of each is guide, with electrical lumbar assist for the driving force. The instrument panel has a 4.2-inch journey pc show.
The 7.0-inch touchscreen media system has six audio system, voice recognition, Apple CarPlay and Android Auto smartphone integration, DAB+ digital radio reception, Bluetooth and compatibility with the myToyota app system enabling entry to Waze navigation, Stitcher audio streaming, WebEx convention calling and offers imaginative and prescient from the reversing digital camera and tips.
Only one USB socket and one 12V energy outlet is offered. Headlights, tail-lights and daytime working lights are all LED.
Along with the facelift’s upgraded security and driver help tech are carry-over autonomous emergency braking, pedestrian and daylight bike owner detection, adaptive cruise management and auto excessive beam methods. The Camry has seven airbags and two units of ISOFIX youngster seat anchorages.
For $36,290 plus on-roads the Ascent Sport provides three driving modes, electrical folding door mirrors, greater 7.0-inch instrument panel and 9.0-inch media screens – the latter with in-built satellite tv for pc navigation – and a leather-wrapped multi-function steering wheel.
Security and driver help tech positive factors blind spot monitoring with rear cross-traffic alert and parking sensors.
The now-hybrid SX ($39,190 + ORC) has sports activities suspension, upgraded LED exterior lighting, leather-based sports activities seats, paddle-shifters and leather-based trim on the centre console and door armrests. Its sportier nature is expressed by way of its distinctive grille and 19-inch black alloy wheels.
On the high of the Camry tree is the $46,990 plus on-roads SL, which has a head-up show, heated and ventilated entrance seats, surround-view monitor, nine-speaker JBL premium audio, panoramic glass roof, a powered boot lid, self-dimming rearview mirror and 18-inch alloys.
Declining sedan recognition and the upcoming change to an up to date Camry has seen the nameplate take a 30 per cent gross sales dive with 2668 leaving showrooms to the tip of March this 12 months, following an 18.1 per cent hunch in pandemic-torn 2020.
However the Camry nonetheless dominates the medium sedan phase – itself down 31.8 per cent year-to-date – by an unlimited margin, with the subsequent best-seller being the Mazda6 on 359 deliveries to the tip of March and the Skoda Octavia 5 items behind.
As a complete, Toyota is up 12.9 per cent this 12 months with 56,513 deliveries.
2021 Toyota Camry pricing*
| Ascent 2.5 (a) | $30,990 |
| Ascent 2.5 hybrid (a) | $33,490 |
| Ascent Sport 2.5 hybrid (a) | $36,290 |
| SX 2.5 hybrid (a) | $39,190 |
| SL 2.5 hybrid (a) | $46,990 |
*Excludes on-road prices
