2025 Toyota Camry hybrid blends into the background

Toyota simply doubled down on hybrids, once more.

Because the automaker marches in the direction of electrifying its total lineup, the up to date 2025 Camry mannequin line going hybrid tells the story of Toyota’s present technique: potent (sufficient), sensible, environment friendly, and cost-conscious. These are the defining traits of the 2025 Camry lineup.

After spending a quick period of time behind the wheel of a base LE mannequin and sportier XSE trim, it’s clear the Camry in all probability isn’t in peril of dropping its place as the perfect promoting automotive within the U.S. anytime quickly. That is regardless of the very fact the Koreans, each Hyundai and Kia, have simply refreshed their midsize choices, the Sonata and K5. 

Right here’s what I famous, and what we stay up for additional testing in the true world with extra time behind the wheel.

2025 Toyota Camry

2025 Toyota Camry delivers clean strikes 

The V-6 is lifeless. The Camry was the holdout, and it’s not standing on that hill.

Each 2025 Camry has a 2.5-liter inline-4 rated at 184 hp. The gasoline engine pairs with Toyota’s fifth-gen model of the planetary-gear-configured hybrid system dubbed THS 5. It employs two electrical motors and nets 225 hp despatched to the entrance wheels. Toyota provides a 3rd motor mounted on the rear axle for all-wheel drive and it may be optioned on each single trim for $1,525. All-wheel-drive fashions enhance web system output to 232 hp. 

Each the extra comfort-oriented LE mannequin and sportier XSE mannequin pushed delivered related energy, with among the finest electrical energy handoffs within the enterprise. Toyota nailed the mixing of the 2 energy sources. The Camry by no means induced judders, jerkiness, and even disturbances of any sort to occupants. Whereas down on energy in comparison with the outgoing V-6 mannequin, the hybrid’s electrical motor makes its torque instantly off the road giving the Camry sufficient to scoot away from a cease signal.

On the freeway the hybrid powertrain doesn’t appear to expire of concepts when it comes time to go one other automotive going 70 mph, however that is no Lucid Air Sapphire both. Don’t plan on racing something aside from a Corolla for pink slips.

2025 Toyota Camry

The steering is effectively weighted and the Camry tracked easily down the California freeway. I used to be stunned, and delighted, because the expectation of overboosted mild steering merely wasn’t met. Suggestions from the steering is a stretch—it is a Camry in any case, not a Supra—but it surely didn’t really feel fully indifferent from the highway.

 The bottom LE’s softer suspension and 16-inch alloy wheels offered a snug, bordering on plush experience that was managed. The XSE with its sportier tuning and 19-inch wheels rode noticeably firmer with extra highway seams and bumps transmitted into the cabin, however even the sportier trims are compliant and comfy at pace. I’ll should see how the sportier XSEs experience on damaged Midwest pavement.

2025 Toyota Camry

2025 Toyota Camry theoretically sips gas

Toyota stated in its most effective type, which is a front-wheel-drive LE trim, the Camry is anticipated to have gas financial system rankings of 53 mpg metropolis, 50 freeway, 51 mixed.  

The least environment friendly Camry trim would be the XSE mannequin with all-wheel drive carrying gas financial system rankings of 44/43/44 mpg. Nonetheless environment friendly.

 In our pre-production automotive that had a mere few hundred miles on it (that means the engine and seals weren’t even damaged in but) the journey pc indicated a median of 35.3 mpg. The drive route included blended driving that wasn’t steady-state speeds with plenty of elevation change over the course of almost 50 miles. I stay up for testing a manufacturing automotive that’s been damaged in to see what sort of gas financial system it achieves in actuality.

2025 Toyota Camry

2025 Toyota Camry

2025 Toyota Camry

2025 Toyota Camry seems the identical, however completely different

It’ll take an actual Camry fanatic, if such a factor exists, to identify the up to date 2025 mannequin. Toyota says it’s new, but it surely’s not. This automotive rides on the identical chassis with the identical 111.2-inch wheelbase as earlier than. The hardpoints for the physique didn’t transfer both. The general size has elevated by about 1.4 inches, however that’s as a result of new bumper designs. The busy X-wing fighter entrance finish is gone. It’s given option to an easier, calmer look with a large decrease grille with completely different inserts for numerous trims. Out again the wraparound LED taillights could possibly be on any automotive and the roofline wouldn’t be misplaced on a Honda Accords or Hyundai Sonata. 

Contained in the story continues with a calmer inside. The dashboard nonetheless options an asymmetrical design, and there are actual buttons and knobs for the local weather management and audio system. Thanks, Toyota.

2025 Toyota Camry

Base automobiles include a 7.0-inch digital gauge cluster and eight.0-inch touchscreen, however higher trim fashions function twin 12.3-inch screens. The touchscreens function the identical interface whatever the measurement, and it poses minor points for each. The smaller 8.0-inch display screen doesn’t truly really feel like an 8.0-inch display screen as a result of Toyota’s interface makes use of the left facet to lock delicate buttons on the left rail, which in flip shrinks usable display screen actual property. The 12.3-inch touchscreen is an excessive amount of of 1 factor as a result of it doesn’t function split-screen functionality. Hope you want lots of Apple CarPlay or a large map. Sure, wi-fi Apple CarPlay and Android Auto are customary.

Base automobiles function snug fabric seats, which may be the perfect within the lineup. However the passenger facet doesn’t have adjustable lumbar assist till you step into greater LE and XLE trims. The rear seat has loads of knee, foot, and legroom, however headroom’s tight. These checking in at 6 ft and taller are going to seek out out what the headliner appears like. The door cutouts aren’t Uber-worthy. The rear seat may be extra snug than the Accord’s attributable to impartial headrests that aren’t built-in into the seat again, however there’s much less legroom, the door opening’s smaller, and it’s more durable to get out and in of. Although, I felt like I wasn’t sitting as low within the rear seat of the Camry as I do within the Accord.

2025 Toyota Camry

Each LE and XLE Camry options some form of fabric trim on the dashboard and door panels, decrease trim automobiles function one thing extra akin to linen whereas higher trim fashions function one thing that appears like suede trimming the dashboard and doorways. The sportier XSE mannequin I drove ditched the material trim on the doorways and dashboard in favor of purple artificial leather-based trim. It was shiny. Higher trim fashions function delicate door uppers, however onerous plastic on the rear doorways. Base automobiles persist with the onerous plastic throughout. Each Camry, sadly, options shiny piano black trim on the dashboard surrounding the touchscreen that then bleeds in the direction of the passenger door. The plastic is wavy and appears low cost, particularly within the solar. Not less than it’s not on the middle console the place it might get scratched.

2025 Toyota Camry

2025 Toyota Camry checks the worth field 

The bottom 2025 Camry LE with front-wheel drive prices $29,495 together with a $1,095 vacation spot cost. That flies about $16,000 lower than the common new car transaction value. It’s an outright deal. Including all-wheel drive solely tacks on one other $1,525 for sure-footed driving in foul climate circumstances. A full-tilt sporty XSE with all-wheel drive will value $37,220.  

Apples to apples, the Camry undercuts the newest Hyundai Sonata by $2,455 whereas having extra horsepower and higher gas financial system beneath some exams.  

It’s not thrilling; it’s not enjoyable to drive; however the 2025 Camry lineup, which is all hybrid, now presents snug, inoffensive transportation that sips gas. And you will get it with all-wheel drive in addition. It appears at first blush that if searching for worth and effectivity the Camry simply leapfrogged to the entrance of the section.

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