TestDrive: Toyota Camry XSE (2025)
Everyday Driver Car Debate
Everyday Driver
4.9 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 24 April 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | 2025 Camry. It's a hybrid only now through all the grades. And Toyota has indicated they are simplifying the Camry lineup. |
| 0:07.6 | We have jumped in the XSE sport trim, but front wheel drive only, which means they come in all wheel drive and front wheel drive |
| 0:13.7 | it's the first time the camera's been available as an all wheel drive and hybrid |
| 0:18.2 | that hasn't been something you could get before but in this version this ninth |
| 0:21.4 | gen is only available as a hybrid, which is actually good news. |
| 0:25.6 | But that means if you get the all-wheel-drive version, guess what? It's still hybrid. |
| 0:29.0 | I like how we have to keep track of the generations of hybrid systems and generations of car. |
| 0:34.4 | Ninth generation Camry, fifth generation hybrid system, |
| 0:37.1 | and for the first time it's connected to the 2.5, |
| 0:40.1 | so 2.5 later engine. |
| 0:42.4 | The fifth generation was also used in the Prius, but that's connected to the 2 liter engine. |
| 0:47.0 | I mean, actually, not really. |
| 0:49.0 | The thing is that the new Prius, which we like, course we did a long-term series on that we drove it on track you have to go watch that stuff we had more fun than we should have it was incredibly fun in a Prius but that was the |
| 1:00.0 | introduction of this fifth-gen hybrid think about this for a second. Toyota has been |
| 1:04.2 | making hybrids for nearly a quarter of a century. About 25 years they've |
| 1:09.6 | been manufacturing hybrids and now they're putting it across all their line up this camera of course is included. |
| 1:14.4 | And we're talking like mid to high 40s miles per gallon is what they're projecting. |
| 1:19.2 | This one says 48 city 47 highway and 47 combined that is really good and that makes it very |
| 1:27.2 | compelling in a kind of sporty sedan this car has been such a standard bear |
| 1:32.4 | for anybody looking for just straight up transportation, |
| 1:37.5 | four-door sedan. |
| 1:39.0 | I've never associated with something sporty and actually kind of fun to drive. |
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