Toyota Camry Solara 2003 test drive - 2008
Toyota Camry. And ours and your
Surely readers know about Toyota’s plans to build in Shushara, a suburbs of St. Petersburg, and modern assembly production. By the end of next year, they promise to put Kamri on the stream of the most popular foreign car in the class in both Russia and America. We are talking about a sixth generation car, debuting at the January salon in Detroit. Let's get acquainted with the future compatriot!
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The press conference at which the debutant presented to journalists gathered a full house: thousands of journalists, hundreds of photo and television cameras. Everyone was eager to see the future bestseller. The car is the 2007 model, although its sales will already start by the release of this number in the United States. Such is the tradition of the market first Camrei appeared in 1982, but was considered a model of the 83rd year.
And here is the curtain! Frightening silver, a car with rounded shapes appeared to the public, it seems, more solid than its predecessor. Under the slowly growing rumble of a huge hall, the host is happy to list the merits of the car. The Americans will be offered five main options for configuration, including sports and hybrid versions. The basic has seven airbags, including the knee for the driver, as well as disk brakes on all wheels are unlikely to put drums specially for Russia. And the pillows on our cars, most likely, will also be plenty.
What else should go through the ocean? Tire pressure control system. I still do not think that as a regular option, but among the options there will certainly be a launch without a key with a button. As well as automatic unlocking, separate climate control and stabilization system. Of course, the main list will be a steering wheel with two adjustments on the angle of inclination and flying away.
A list of familiar additional equipment (leather salon, electric lover, etc.) traditional. Among the things of non -obvious ones, it is worth mentioning a salon filter with an air ionizer that destroys bacteria. The organizers of the presentation did not fail to notice that long trips to Camri can be good for health, the audience has gone approvingly. Among the options for equipping the sports version of the SE and a hybrid stand apart. The athlete differs from the rest from the appearance, interior, even the structure of the body from the back, additional stretch marks are installed. Add to this a 10 mm spring, altered characteristics of stabilizers, more rigid shock absorbers.
Hybrid Kamri carries a combined power plant built on a 2.4 -liter gasoline engine. According to the equipment, the car is close to the most complete XLE option, in terms of accelerating dynamics on short segments, it approaches a motor of 3.5 liters, in terms of fuel consumption to compact class cars (the greatest efficiency is achieved in the city cycle). The generation is six
The audience, including Russian -speaking, diverged slowly, violently discussing what she saw:
More pretty old, agree.
Yes, she should go well, competitors will have to sweat.
Of course, you know the taste and color. Personally, the sixth generation car seemed much more interesting to me more than the predecessor outside, but not too expressive inside. Solidity seemed to increase. For a medium -sized sedan (as Camrei classify in the American market), this matters. By our standards, the car is at least a business class. Here respectability will even more contribute to sales. In turn, engineers say that they improved the car in all aspects, not limited to the exterior. For greater comfort and at the same time, the better handling of the wheel was spaced in the corners (the base has increased, the length has almost not changed), and the steering has gained greater sharpness (3.2 steering wheel turns).
Almost everything has been changed in the suspension: shock absorbers, springs, stabilizers. The lower levers became longer, which positively affected the behavior of the car in corners and allowed it to be better to keep the trajectory on a bad road. The brakes are much more powerful now. The designers paid attention to the aerodynamics of the bottom, used several additional shields, which made it possible to reduce noise and get a very decent resistance coefficient of CC \u003d 0.28.
In the cabin in the seats with improved protection in a side collision, a new fluorescent combination of devices (dark before turning on), a multifunctional display on the central console. Compared to the predecessor, the rear passengers space is increased.
The engines did not sit idle. A combustion chamber was finalized at a 2.4 -liter engine, the intake and graduation tract was processed, and the compression was slightly increased. The upper motor in the range now has a volume of 3.5 liters (today the most powerful in the Russian market is an unit with a volume of 3.0 liters, in American 3.3 l). For Russian buyers, this means an increase in power almost 90 hp.
Finally, the 2.4 liter engine, which is part of the hybrid installation, operates in the Atkinson cycle (one of the methods of organizing gas exchange with the so -called internal cooling). Along with a mechanical box, there are options with a five- or six-speed automatic. THE LONG ROAD
Export machines in Russia will appear by the fall of this year, but their Shusharsky only by the end of the next, 2007. It is too early to talk about the price, as you know. Although
It is unlikely that the company is interested in collecting more cars than can sell. In this case, local production dictates considerable volumes of sales. So for potential buyers, the price tags should look attractive. And what do you think?
You can be sure of Toyota-Kamri will become a bestseller in America and a star in Shushara. Twenty years later
The history of the three most popular medium-sized Honda-Akord, Ford Thus and Toyota-Kamri is very curious. In the mid-80s, the main struggle unfolded between Honda and Ford Toyota sold almost half as much. By the mid-90s, three brands were almost equal in popularity, but Ford walked a little ahead, and Toyota was a little behind Honda. And then a decade later, Camrei escaped into unconditional leaders, ahead of the sales of a Japanese competitor by 14%, and the American is more than doubled. Interestingly, in Russia will Toyota also teach a lesson in a victorious game on a foreign field?
Alexander Budkin
A source: The magazine "Driving"
