Toyota Camry: America’s best-selling car now on sale in Britain

The Toyota Camry is the best-selling car in America. It is now on sale in Britain, with prices impressively starting from less than £30,000.

2019 Toyota CamryThe Toyota Camry returns to the UK this summer with prices for the new hybrid-only large saloon starting from £29,995. Sitting above the new British-built Corolla, on-sale ordering opens on 1 April and first deliveries are expected from 1 July.

Two grades are offered, called Design and Excel. Design costs £29,995 and has 17-inch alloys, leather upholstery, dual-zone climate control, LED headlights, all-round parking sensors plus electric and heated front seats.

2019 Toyota Camry

Standard safety kit includes an auto-brake system called Pre-Collision Safety (it also detects pedestrians), adaptive cruise control, lane departure warning, automatic high beam and a sensor that reads and displays road signs.

2019 Toyota Camry

Want more? Excel, the one pictured here, is £31,295, and adds 18-inch 10-spoke alloys, upgraded dual-beam projector LED headlights, LED fog lights, blind spot monitor and wireless smartphone charging.

Because the Camry comes on a boat from America, Toyota has limited the choice of colours down to just five.

2019 Toyota Camry

Every new UK-spec Camry is a hybrid, with the ‘self-charging’ 2.5-litre system that produces 215 horsepower, but emits incredibly low levels of CO2 for such a large petrol car: between 98g/km and 101g/km.

Combined fuel economy, on the stricter new WLTP combined cycle, is equally good: 50.5mpg to 53.3mpg.

We first drove the Toyota Camry back in late 2017, during testing for the World Car Awards. It impressed us with its refinement and quality; we described it as “Lexus-like”. Its arrival fills the gap in Toyota’s range previously occupied by the Avensis.

Separately, a Honda executive revealed to Motoring Research last year that it has no plans to follow Toyota’s lead and bring back the U.S.-built Accord to Britain.

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Richard Aucock
Richard Aucockhttps://www.richardaucock.co.uk/
Richard is director at Motoring Research. He has been with us since 2001, and has been a motoring journalist even longer. He won the IMCO Motoring Writer of the Future Award in 1996 and the acclaimed Sir William Lyons Award in 1998. Both awards are run by the Guild of Motoring Writers and Richard is currently vice chair of the world's largest organisation for automotive media professionals. Richard is also a juror and Steering Committee director for World Car Awards and the UK juror for the AUTOBEST awards.

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