That is how camry storm the entire USA market ESP california ... Ppl give a name to the car... --> trouble free car...

infact now they smart abit lieo, they had to dumb down the passat to fight the camry, they are selling the usa made passats with 8V old engines..

CKD or made in ASEAN countries doesn't make a difference tax wise, I thought?

In USA the Camry is modern and comes with almost everything that you'd get from a Passat here. Even more airbags than that. And it's cheap. And trouble free. So yea, obviously a good deal. Here it sells cause there are more SC, the resale value is better (could change, I'll be LMAO then), and of course the brand. Toyota makes competitive cars in markets where they have to. Here they don't.

Btw., the Avensis isn't doing terribly well in Germany (should be so so...), even though it is competitively spec'ed and priced. The Passat is the second (or third) best selling car though, only beaten by the Golf which like sells 2x as good, and selling just as good as the Polo.

when is this car coming out la.
press release mentioned march 2012.
now already end of march....

Better buy the 2012 Camry ACR40. Someone has bought the 2.4 for less than RM160K.

2.4 now in bargain clear stock price mah. This is the last time u gonna see the 2.4 engine (which i think it is one of Toyota Engine tat have been place in a lot of nice car).... after that it is all estima 2.4 and harrier 2.4 in the market.

Basically those technology Toyota gives us here are already a batch slower than their Japan spec. U can imagine dual vvti already existed in Toyota Altezza since 1999 till 2 years ago there only start bringing in them to Malaysia Corrola. But then those 2 car used totally different engine lah. But the concept of the dual vvti has exist since then.

r u sure the Altezza 1 is Dual VVTi?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_3S-GE#3S-GE

seem correct.. But I remember it is not only VVT-i.. it is VVTL-i for the Altezza...

can someone provide me what is the specs for malaysia 2012 new camry?

I once saw a LEXUS RS200 (name there used for the USA or was it Europe market) they did put the Dual VVTi batch on the car.

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Heard that the brochure for the new Camry is out and its confirmed that the 2.0E and 2.0G will use the old engine and old 4 speed transmission. 2.5V with new engine and 6 speed transmission + 4 airbags.

Im interested to see how this Camry will sell in comparision with its predecessors and with all the competition around it.

A salesman told tat toyota company having a meeting on new camry dis weekend, guess everythin will b revealed very soon...

maybe facelift in 2 years time will change these....

Seems like the new 2.5V engine is not a V6 engine. Why they dun want to give V6 engine coz Mark X is V6 engine like LS250. Camry should be higher class than Mark X. Stupid Toyota!

Only one variant of Altezza (6MT) with BEAMS 3SGE (dual VVT-i). The only VVTL-i (2ZZGE) is only available in Celica GTS and Corolla XRS (and Lotus Exige/S).

the avensis is one example that toyota can be quite proud of. it's doing pretty well given the restrictions placed on japanese manufacturers in europe.

Just like Altis - the new gen 10 is so horrible until it was not a new gen but only new grill/bumper & rear change. Then a facelift (gen 10.5) hold a new power plant and transmission. Now Camry follow suit. LOL.

I hope so....


Maybe they just have too many old engine and gear box in stock so they have to used such cheap strategy to clear off old stock.