Toyota’s New Camry Shocks the Entire Car Industry

rev up your engines all right here I have a brand new camera a guy just by why do people buy them what are they having them what are you going to find out know anybody who knows anything about cars and those cameras can last a long time but people say oh they're boring I don't want a boring Camry well let's see they really don't look boring anymore they really upped their designs Wheels this new one he averages about 37 the Top's about 40. plenty of power and great gas mods and it has tried and true technology first of all it has a real key ah and under the hood it has a four-cylinder inline engine connected to an automatic transmission that is not a CVT it is not one of those cvts that shift weird feel weird it is an eight-speed transmission an actual automatic transmission now in the past when Toyota started putting multi-speed automatics some people whine I don't like the way it feels they go for gas mileage yes and the earlier ones sometimes they'd hunt between gears we'll see how this one goes but all the newer ones that I've tried out they don't have the hunting problems that the old one does understand one thing about Toyota they build something and they gradually work at Perfection they've been making Camrys a long time they see something's wrong they fix the original cameras yes they were kind of ugly they did run forever they tried different variants when I tried those laros that were kind of fancy ones some of them were convertibles but they're basic four-door Transportation car has just basically gotten better and better as time goes on they find problems they perfect them they're not like the Americans who well that model didn't work let's throw that away let's try something else no they have a different philosophy in Japan they want to gradually improve how they make things now granted in the past they weren't much on style well they certainly have gone way past that and their style has changed immensely nice interior black and chrome and of course it's a four door plenty of room in the back and at the same time they have a really good combo of rideability and handling some people who really want handling yeah you wouldn't buy this you'd buy the Camry TRD it's got a much stiffer suspension Corners like a scalded ape I mean they really are fun to drive but I took my wife in a ride in a TRD she hated it and she's driving a 20 year old Lexus she likes a nice smooth ride I take her for rides in regular cameras she loves it's just that the TRD has a really set up suspension system so you can zoom around like a lunatic that's not Toyota's Market with this Camry it's for people who want a nice four-door car that can run forever I see them all the time five six seven hundred thousand miles on it change oil every 5 000 miles these things will generally last indefinitely this 2.5 liter engine is excellent of course it's got a timing chain on it and the small problems that Toyota had ages ago like my grandson's 2007 Camry and it's got that horrible four Zone owner engine that they made for a few years and burnt oil like mad that's way in the past these aren't oil burners and as we go inside start her up I noticed they've improved their interface here it used to be it's set up too high now from where I sit it doesn't block the window at all it's more integrated I would like it a little bit lower myself I would have designed it a little bit lower but that's what Toyota's doing fancy automatic transmission you can go eco mode normal mode sport or if you want you can shift it yourself very easy to use and since it has an actual automatic transmission you are actually shifting gears this isn't a CVT that's pretending to shift gears to the marvels of modern computers and hydraulics this is actually shifting gears we'll try it out later now the seats are faux leather but they're very comfortable and this stuff tends to last quite some time I really like the combination because nothing Wears Like fabric so the stuff you're sitting on is really comfortable but it's still got a leather look to it and I personally kind of like this it doesn't have a sunroof because I personally think sunroofs are the dumbest thing on Earth what do you want a sunroof for it just gets heated and anyways with a solid roof you're safer that's part of the strength of the vehicle a solid roof I would rather have a solid roof over my head to some stupid sunroof that might shatter if something bad happens you can see it's got the automatic high beams you can turn the traction control off if you want simple setup heating and air conditioning I hate when they have all the stuff hidden up here on the computer we gotta scroll through a bunch of crap to get the heater of the AC on this to me makes more sense there's a defrost automatic you can set the temperatures very simply turn it off if you want turn it on again then when you change the speed you just push the button here you're not pushing your fingers all over much easier to operate so let's take it for a spin as smooth as can be decent backup camera nothing outrageous but yeah it's a decent camera typical Camry smells just like a dream like I say these don't hunt for Gears and this is just a normal it's not a TRD but you want to zoom around there's another one they're everywhere same color too so you can get 40 miles a gallon on a highway and it's getting 37 around the city with a regular transmission you don't have to sacrifice power and smoothness for a CVT this is power and smoothness and it's an actual automatic like I said and as you go down the road we'll try the old brakes the ABS Works phenomenal and here we go to our little drag strip we're almost there makes a nice throaty sound too it's not Dull like the old cameras leaves a little bit of sound and nobody's behind us so we can come to the stop and we'll turn the traction control off and here we go [Music] smooth shifting listen to it you can barely feel a shift like I said these new multi-speed transmissions Toyota has they got most of the bugs on them but just for Giggles let's put a manual Shifty here we are in second gear oh that was pretty fast downshift hey it down shifts quick look at that hey I gotta say the manual is not like the older ones they're kind of a time lag this thing is crisp it shifts manually smooth now when it's an automatic yeah it shifts perfectly smooth that but if you want to have a little sporty fun just put it in the manual shifting and you can see it's got Lane departure because see it's warning us warning warning do not drive over the yellow line warning warning while I'm getting older maybe I need that now I don't know then again my wife said I needed it years ago well in my defense it isn't that easy to drive fast film talk and think at the same time without running into something and as we come to a stop nice and smooth and look it's not turning itself off I love that I hate that auto start stop I find it annoying and I think Toyota understands that many Americans find it annoying so this doesn't have it I love that most of them you can turn them off by pushing them button but you got to keep pushing the stupid button having an eco mode Let's see what that does [Music] I don't know it doesn't seem Eco to me it's still got plenty of pickup some of those Eco modes are slow it didn't slow down one iota it's got the modern conveniences right there it's telling you the speed limit and unfortunately you can also see it from the passenger side so my wife would see how fast I was going over the limit well you can't have everything usually the heads up display this doesn't happen you can't see from that side so I would rather have a heads up display that has a speed limit on the windshield where I can see it and my wife can't now even though this isn't the Camry TRD with the really trick suspension this thing still is fun to drive in the twisties it still has pretty crisp handling no particular over under steer of course it's beeping at me now because I'm not using a turn signal while I'm playing around now watch I'll put the turn signal on now it won't beep because it knows I have my turn signal on it so I guess that system won't help those crazy people that are driving down the highway with their turn signal all the time because it won't beep at them if they go over the line because they have their turn signal and so machines can't keep fools from themselves realize that they're not Miracles fools will still continue being fools whether computers are advising them or not so there you have it a 2022 Camry now the owner traded in a Mustang that at 14 000 miles not because the Mustang was falling apart but because he didn't like 13 miles a gallon anymore and he's getting almost 40 on this thing and he says this is just as much fun to drive around it really handles quite well and I do have to say for all the people that whined about Toyota multi-speed automatic transmissions hunting for Gears and not feeling right this feels perfect whether it's by itself extremely smooth or put in a manual and really zooming it that's what impressed me because the older ones you chip them up and down manually there'd be us little bit of a weight sometimes even a second for it to go up or down in gear felt sloshy this didn't feel sloshy because realize this is not a CVT transmission it isn't doing Fake Gear changes because cvts don't have gears it is changing actual gears it's going five six six five four whatever it says on the dash what it is but it actually works like most things Toyota it doesn't look boring it doesn't drive boring and really he's got 30 grand into this thing the average car is now 49 grand for a new one pretty good deal if you ask me I doubt as if that Mustang is going to be rolling down the road 10-15 years from now but this thing certainly will be as long as nobody runs into the thing so if you never want to miss another one of my new car repair videos remember to ring that 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Channel: Scotty Kilmer

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Length: 11min 12sec (672 seconds)

Published: Tue Jan 24 2023