Toyota Camry Solara 2003 test drive - 2008

Toyota Camry. The ship is floating to us

The mustachioed policeman suddenly distracted from educational work with the driver of a bright small -leaf, focusing on a large gray sedan. This is Toyotoy-Kamri and I sail along the damaged Barcelona street.
Of course, the law enforcement officer did not stop the first -aid kit and reconciliation of numbers for revision. He, like many drivers and pedestrians, was interested in a car that has not yet been seen in Western Europe. And they will not see
Philosophy of pleasure
Kamri 2006 is in many ways not what it seems at first glance. Say, in the photo a car, especially bright warm tones, looks a little overweight, heavy. The car alive looks more elegant and elegant, although solidity and even a certain imposition are present.
In design, I try to find motives sophisticated by Toyota stylists with other eminent models. Something seems to be read, but to say that Kamri repeats one of them to scream his soul. The car is recognizable and skillfully inscribed in the current corporate style of Toyota. Buyers of solid, but relatively inexpensive sedans, people are usually family, are somewhat conservative. The motto of Camrei is probably close to them: pleasure, but not sports. In the era, when almost every second car from urban crumbs to high all -terrain vehicles try to be considered at the athletes, this recognition sounds surprisingly honestly.
Yes, a stunning acceleration from a 2.4-liter 167-horsepower engine should not be expected. But he (again!) Not at all as small as you think about him. The car confidently behaves in the stream created by hot, by no means the most law -abiding Spanish drivers. Yes, and on the mountain paths with steep lifts you do not feel infringed. Of course, Kamri with a 3.5-liter six with a capacity of 277 hp. quite another. It seems that he did not press the pedal much, and on the speedometer there are noticeably more than 120 km/h permissible in this area. This is not the case for a solid business sedan: there was still not enough tires to whistle in vihi!

Both the steering and the captain
Toyota swims rapidly on the freeway. Yes, a light salon, visually very spacious, is that.
I rarely rarely falls on the role of a passenger, the role of the driver is somehow closer. Having tested the rear sofa in the parking lot, evaluating the distance between it and the back of the front chair, involuntarily caught himself at the desire: someone would have sweated! It is painful here spacious, comfortable, comfortable.
Finding any button in Kamri is not a problem. But the finish, in my opinion, is controversial. Light plastic in the style of techno in business sedan? Why not, but in the neighborhood with it, inserts from a yellowish tree look foreign. True, many people will like it. The magnetolaclmat-control block, decorated with light green plastic, looks quite strange: what is the car?
About eclectic, it makes you forget the behavior of the machine. It is not only convenient in it, but also very quiet. The engine reminds of itself only at the moment of sharp acceleration in the Kik Dawn mode. Even at 140 km/h, the aerodynamic noise is not louder than the muffled purring of the radio. So everyone would float and sailed there, beyond the horizon. But how will this ship behave in an aggressive element?
Left steering, the right of the steering wheel!
Again Toyota did not live up to expectation! And again it turned out to be better. It is no secret that the main export market for the US Camry. Therefore, I assumed that the car would be comfortable, but it would begin to swing on irregularities and show validity in steep turns. Nothing like this! This cruiser is nothing. Redistering the suspension for Russia and Eastern Europe, the engineers have achieved a very successful compromise: irregularities, grooves are almost indistinguishable, but there are no tiring buildup.
In addition, the ship is very obedient to the steering wheel. On narrow mountain serpentines, where, due to turns, sometimes clinging to the oncoming, expansive southerners fly out (sometimes three tons on trucks!), He praised the car more than once. He clearly, without forcing him to be nervous and fussing, holds the trajectory between the axial line and a narrow curb.
I liked the brakes that you do not need to get used to, the reaction to the pedal is exactly what you are waiting.
Summarizing the impressions, I brought for myself a paradoxical formula: I could not fall in love with Kamri, but living with it is easy and comfortable.
In our harbor
Toyota-Kamri, like the previous model, will not be supplied to Western Europe. The first North American market for the company, Russia with a great lag is following it.
The base version with a 2.4 liter engine and a mechanical gearbox will be sold for $ 30,900. The most expensive car with a 277-horsepower engine, a six-speed automatic, cruise control, parking sensors and other amenities will cost $ 43,200. I remind you that since December 2007 Kamri is planned to be released near St. Petersburg, in Shushara.
A large, comfortable ship was already moored in Russia by sales of cars collected in Japan in April.
Toyota Camry is a solid, roomy, richly equipped car for moderate money.
+ Spacious interior, good handling, successful compromise suspension.
- Eclectic, not at the rank of interior decoration.
 
Sergey Kanunnikov
 
 
 
 

Source: The magazine "Driving"