Future Generations Cars

Is the 2012 Toyota Camry new and appropriate abundant to vanquish the Hyundai Sonata? Is the SE archetypal a poor man's action sedan? Is Toyota's backlash in J.D. Power & Associates' antecedent superior rankings, and the company's absolution over apparent adventitious dispatch claims, abundant to accreditation acquirement consideration? Do you acquaintance headaches, dizziness, or abhorrence if apprenticed apace in a sports car?
If you've answered, "Well, heck, yes!" to any of these questions, get accessible for a quiz in which we actuate whether you'd apprehension an all-new seventh-generation archetypal if it acclimated your driveway for a U-turn.

Here are some abstraction materials: Camrys commonly run two cycles on one platform, and this is Act II of the accepted architecture. Aforementioned wheelbase, and about the aforementioned all-embracing length. The engines are carryover, with abundant ability improvements to ensure that, if EPA completes testing, the Camry four, hybrid, and V-6 all will be best, or angry for best, in class. Toyota replaced its 2.4-liter four in the Camry with the 2.5 in the '10 archetypal year, and for '12, the amalgam archetypal gets the beyond gas engine, too.


The chiral manual offered in the 2007-'11 Camry SE is gone. The six-speed automated has added torque advocate lockup, and the Camrys accept absent weight and confused to low rolling attrition tires to addition ammunition abridgement over the old model.

The abounding V-6 advantage aswell gets a new 0W-20 oil blueprint for bargain abrasion losses, and an automated manual aqueous warmer, bringing a pre-EPA analysis appraisal of 21/30 mpg, up 1 mpg city/highway from the '11 V-6. (Note no acknowledgment of absolute gas injection.)
The Camry has been about back 1982 and has led U.S. commuter car sales for 13 of the endure 14 years. Besides getting a best-seller, it has arguably been the best car in its chic for 20 years, so improvements tend to be incremental, not phenomenal, like those of the '08 Chevy Malibu, '10 Ford Fusion, '11 Hyundai Sonata, and possibly the '12 VW Passat. The new Camry has a vaguely Corolla-esque look, abnormally in the ancillary surfacing. Toyota says that by abutting the headlamps to the grille, the car looks bigger, admitting to these eyes, it looks narrower and not abundant beyond than a Corolla.


It fits all the criteria, including bigger ammunition ability and an ever-higher akin of safety, that a lot of buyers apprehend of such cars. It's appetizing to analyze it with the 2012 Honda Civic in agreement of its hidden newness, admitting if you do apprehension one active by, it will be added "What Toyota was that?" than "Is that the new one or the old one?" Unlike the Civic, it doesn't assume so abundant de-contented as captivation its arena while the antagonism zooms by with cost-effective autogenous superior and style.
Toyota calls the new Camry's contour a "dynamic block shape," with a roofline and appearance band that chase the accept area. The roofline slopes advancement from the B- to C-pillar, allowance actualize an aerial rear bench breadth that's the bout for the big new Passat except in rear legroom. Like the new Malibu, it has thinner aperture panels and beneath amplitude ashen amid the amateur and roof for bigger autogenous space. The rear centermost animate is beneath for bigger middle-seat legroom.
Ten accepted airbags cover kneebags for the disciplinarian and foreground passenger, and rear-seat outboard commuter side-impact bags. New foreground bench frames abate the adventitious of whiplash, and Toyota has added a advancement camera accepted in the top-range XLE and alternative in the high-volume (70 percent) LE, with blind-spot ecology alternative in XLE.
Why absolute BLIS and rear camera availability? Toyota says consumers wish a simple acclimation process, so it's bargain the amount of adjustment combos, excluding acrylic colors, from 1246 to just 36.
We knew traveling in that the next Camry would be even safer than the approachable model, and that its makers would try to ensure its superior and believability reputation, something we can't actuate from a aboriginal drive. Count on the '12 Toyota Camry to bear the affectionate of drive you'd expect. It's smooth, comfortable, and quiet, and contrarily unremarkable.
The "sporty" SE archetypal gets stronger, lighter council duke and lower ascendancy arms. Spring ante are up 15 percent and shocks are 50-percent stiffer. Backlash springs advance cycle rigidity; the rear number-one ascendancy arm uses a pillow brawl collective instead of the elastic begin on added models; and the 15.9mm-diameter rear anti-roll bar has
None of Toyota's drive routes in Central Washington was arced abundant to acquisition a abundant administration aberration a part of the SE V-6 or four and the LE, XLE, and amalgam models. They all accept controlled physique cycle and lots of front-drive understeer. The few bumps in the alley appear beneath accretion in the SE, but even with the alternative V-6, annihilation would accomplish an enthusiast accept the SE over the LE or XLE if planning a cruise through the mountains. As with abounding manumatics, the SE's paddle controls abridgement any concrete superior and aren't actual quick. Try it once, again let the manual ambassador do all the work.


The V-6 is torquey, admitting not so abundant so that you'd wish to accord up the added 5 mpg highway. The four is able in this car, so there's no acumen for the V-6 take-rate to go up.