camry for 2015 to be honest it probably need to do too

much it's already the best-selling car out there but what they did they did a

lot it's new from the ground up with the chassis that's lower longer stronger and

wider camry hasn't been cars coms favorite vehicle in a midsize sedan

challenge it placed seventh out of ninth but a lot has changed for 2018 in

summary it's good why did the kamilly finished seventh internal s comparison

well a lot of it was it didn't drive particularly well and there are numerous

safety features advanced safety features like collision avoidance and blind spot

and lane departure assist that just weren't widely available on the more

popular trim levels and both have been addressed in big ways for 2018 the new

Camry drives so much better that new chassis has done wonders to the way the

car drives both in ride quality and handling now previously on some of the

sporty or Camry models the SC and the XS II they rode rough the suspension

crashed over bumps but there really wasn't much reward and handling that has

been completely flipped for 2018 the SE and the XS II handled really well and

ride quality is good which is kind of amazing to actually say that because

they're able to do it without any adaptive suspension or you know trick

shock absorbers the SE and the XS II use unique shock and spring Tooting now the

whole suspension has been redone there's different shock tuning up front from the

McPherson struts and then in back the double wishbone suspension is all-new

and what that means is this is the Camry that drives really well

it hugs the corner more so than you would expect for this kind of car the

new Camry has a very very refined ride so the Camry drives great in the SE and

xsv models but what about the base model you know the le the xle well those drive

well - all of that same suspension goodness and chassis strengthening works

really well on the base models - overall just a much more pleasant vehicle to

drive in any way you cut it highway in the corners now the big

difference comes in wheel size the XL e which is larger wheel has a little bit

more wheel motion we are going over bumps the ride is a little busier than

the Le which has a very small wheel and a tall side well tire that soaks up the

bumps a little better if you're looking for the most comfortable cami the Le are

the ones I've driven say on this introductory drive is the one that you

want so there are two new engines for 2018 the 4-cylinder is all new and the

v6 is kind of a worked over version of what's been available previously so four

cylinder is going to make up most of Camry sales

now the chassis is new the suspension is new but there's a 2.5 liter

four-cylinder that makes 203 or 206 horsepower depending if you buy the

sporty or trim levels it's pretty good engine a lot of automakers have switched

to turbochargers for their base engines small displacement turbocharged engines

but Toyota has stuck with a rather large displacement 2.5 liter and it works I

mean it has a lot of low-end grunt for being naturally aspirated and it pulls

the cam very well my one gripe with it though is

the noise it's a little grainy sounding engine and it doesn't sound very refined

even though power is great fuel economy is good to up to 41 miles per gallon on

the highway in some trim levels but it's not a completely refined sounding engine

now the other option which only 5% of people will buy according to Toyota is

the v6 now this is the engine that wants to fry the tires it's a lot of power and

the new 8-speed transmission that's on both the four-cylinder and six-cylinder

manages the power very well it has it's very refined growl

and a surprisingly quick for what it is that we fix engine in the sporty XSP

package it's a car very few people are going to buy but that is the most

exciting car in the Camry lineup and it's still kind of weird saying fun and

exciting when you're talking about a Toyota Camry but they did it with the

2018 there's a lot of new technology inside Camry and it all should sound

somewhat familiar if you're shopping for a midsize sedan but with Camry does is

combine it all in one package so on higher-end trim levels you have options

like an around view monitor a head-up display and 4G in-car wireless internet

but there haven't been a car in the segment to combine all of those until

now you have to pay for it because it's on the top-end trim levels but it

creates a very unique package and all the features on their own are done

pretty well the head-up display it's very detailed and it can give you a

tachometer as well as an economy gauge to show you how efficient you're driving

as well as the adaptive cruise control setting and lane departure warning the

4G Wireless is the fastest 4G enough for three be some Carter still

using and then there's the backup camera the around view monitor which is

honestly it's done that or in other places the screen here the resolution

isn't the greatest with the cameras and sometimes it's hard to see where the

curb is the interior size is pretty familiar there's a ton of leg room up

front there's a bunch of legroom out back and Headroom and that's good

because when we're reading the specs it says the seating position is lower to

create a sleeker roofline its vehicles overall lower so it was a little worried

that it would fit lower to the ground be harder to get in and out of but that's

not the case it's just like getting how does the old Camry but you get that

benefit of this very sleek look and a little lower center of gravity for

handling but there's a lot of room inside a Camry and in the trunk about

cargo room though the backseat on the base model doesn't

fold it's a fixed back seat you have to buy one of the upper trim levels on the

Le and above to get that folding backseat

now even then it's not a very large opening compared to stores competitors

the quality of the Camrys interior is a big step up compared with the old one on

this top xle trim level you're looking at soft touch surfaces all over the

place in the front and in the back on lower

end trim levels the back seat isn't as covered in nice materials as the top

trim levels the door panels are hard plastic instead of padded in this nice

material but up front it's relatively consistent between the trim levels with

a few pieces of interior trim that's difference between the models now as far

as safety features that's where we not be family before but as they come back

as standard forward collision warning with automatic braking and pedestrian

detection as well as a lane keep assist and an adaptive cruise control now the

base model and some of the lower end trim levels the adaptive cruise control

is high speed only which means once you get to around 25 miles an hour it B

activates but a higher trim levels it's a full speed adaptive cruise control

which who slows you down all the way to a shop the Camrys touchscreen is very

notable because it has all of the tactile interaction that we want there's

a volume knob there's a tuning knob all of the buttons have individual tactile

buttons instead of capacitive buttons as far as

the software and what's in it standard you have a seven-inch screen and in the

XLE here we are in the optional 8 inch screen there are numerous versions of

this engine system the base bill and in all four cylinders comes with the system

that has GPS calc which is an app that you can download and for the first three

years it's free before becomes a subscription-based service but that app

on your phone then talks with the car and displays navigation in the screen

now it's a lot like apple carplay and android auto except you have to download

an app and then after three years you have to pay for it that should give you

a clue that there's still no apple carplay or android auto in the camry or

any toyota for that matter right now they are sticking with their proprietary

engine system on this model you have into apps with apps like Pandora

iHeartRadio slacker Yelp and MVR the Camry does have Siri eyes free which

iphones can use you can talk to your phone and communicate commands from your

phone like text messages and calls through series i3 but again no car fly

no Android auto which is the downside here to an otherwise very well done

system the big question is with this Camry has finished hiring a midsize

sedan comparison whose Camry does not feel like an evolution of the previous

car it feels like a completely different vehicle and while I can't say for

certain it would have won the previous comparison it definitely would have been

contending for a podium finish you

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