Hybrid option for Camry -- America's Most Popular Car
Appealing to our patriotic tendencies, the car will be assembled in Kentucky (albeit of mostly Japanese parts).
Here's the pitch:
Camry is America's most popular car, with sales topping 425,000 units in 2004. A large number of buyers who might not otherwise choose a hybrid car will select the Camry Hybrid. These buyers will enjoy improved fuel efficiency, uncompromised performance and the most advanced hybrid system on the road: Hybrid Synergy Drive®.
Most of Camry Hybrid's electrical powertrain components will be imported from Japan, but the 4-cylinder engine will be assembled in Georgetown, Kentucky. As with all other Toyota vehicles featuring Hybrid Synergy Drive®, the Camry Hybrid powertrain will be engineered to achieve the model's specific performance specifications and to exceed buyer expectations.
The growing hybrid market
Camry Hybrid was born of Toyota's commitment to produce environmentally sensitive vehicles and the increasing market demand for hybrids. Toyota has sold more than 400,000 hybrid vehicles worldwide. The company is on target to produce 300,000 hybrid vehicles annually by 2005, and one million by the end of the decade. Camry Hybrid follows Prius and Highlander Hybrid as the third Toyota hybrid in the U.S. market.
Toyota will continue to release information about Camry Hybrid performance, specifications, options, price and first date of sale. Hybrid Synergy View will keep you up with the latest news!
Check out the U.S. Camry Hybrid launch announcement for more information.
Fun facts on this page: 425,000 Camrys sold in 2004, 500,000 hybrids sold worldwide by Toyota, with goal of 300,000 per year.
Our friends Brad and Lara are NOT seniors yet have a Prius AND a Camry. They live on the Westside, where seniors presumably drive other kinds of vehicles and thus don't understand the phenomenon that is the classic Camry driver.
3 comments:
You can't live on the Westside without a Prius. They check credentials now. Brad married into the Camry situation and I hold him blameless. Perhaps Lara was forced physically to buy the car. At gunpoint. Which is the only way it would happen to me, but not before significant time pondering whether it wouldn't be better to just cut out the middleman and die right there on the spot.
Ever notice that they don't make the Camry in lemon yellow or sporty red? I would appreciate it if they did, just so I could see them coming a little faster.
How about a Camry with a custom "General Lee" paint job and doors that don't open, so you'd have to get in and out through the windows? And horn that plays "Dixie."
The General Camry.
Is there a classic Civic driver? Would that be the Asian gangster?
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