Yahoo Autos 2025 Toyota Camry Is Why Sedans Remain Relevant in the US
For the first time, Toyota’s Camry goes hybrid only but retains the available all-wheel drive.
We observed 48 mpg in real-world fuel economy during a 36-mile jaunt back to downtown San Diego in a 2025 Camry XLE AWD.
Production of the 2025 Toyota Camry has just started at Toyota’s plant in Georgetown, Kentucky, and sales begin in May.
The 2025 Camry, styled at studios in Newport Beach, California, and Ann Arbor, Michigan, sits low and hugs the ground, and the optional 19-inch alloy wheels fill out the wheel wells. Headlamps across the industry are seemingly disappearing into narrow, pointed, shafts of light, and that execution works well on the new Camry.
Crimps in the sheetmetal are applied at just the right spots, cascading inward down the hood and along the beltline. And the design elements on the rear quarter panels appear to be pulled taut as they converge at the back. While the Camry has a standard trunk lid hinged below the rear window, this design could have also worked as a liftback.
In past years, the Camry may have not been described as a sport sedan, but the term fits now. This purposeful styling on the outside carries over to the cabin with a number of tasteful design flourishes, such as the horizontal fluted trim that flows neatly into the air vent on the passenger-side instrument panel.
An available 12.3-inch multimedia touchscreen blends nicely into the dashboard, but many shoppers will appreciate the hard buttons for climate control positioned below the screen, as well as an actual volume knob along the left side of the touchscreen.
The 2025 Camry XLE AWD we drove near San Diego last week (sticker priced at $40,780 with destination, including a $4760 Premium Plus package) featured a handsome two-tone off-white and black interior punctuated with a soft checkerboard pattern trim on the front doors and instrument panel. Subtle, but very effective.
Unless you really need to spend more for the Lexus badge on your sedan, Toyota’s best-selling four-door does quite nicely, both inside and out, in the aesthetic department.
There are other reasons to like the new Camry. How about 48 mpg in real-world fuel economy during a 36-mile jaunt back to downtown San Diego?
It wasn’t long ago that V6 power was standard in this segment, but lately the four-cylinders have taken over, with very few compromises. Pair up a capable 2.5-liter DOHC I4 with a 100-kW electric motor (with 208 Nm of torque) powered by a lithium-ion battery, and you can sail on past lots of gas stations with a combined 232 hp with on-demand all-wheel drive (or 225 hp with front-wheel drive).
The best fuel-economy rating for the 2025 Camry is the LE FWD trim, at 53/50 mpg city/highway. At the low end is the XSE AWD trim, certified at 44/43 mpg. The only way to buy this new Camry is as a hybrid.
Since the Prius first reached American shores in 2020, Toyota has owned the hybrid space more than any other automaker, especially now as hybrids find their way into just about every new Toyota, including the pickup trucks and even the new Land Cruiser and 4Runner.
