Toyota on Thursday launched a teaser photograph for a redesigned Camry sedan and confirmed the debut for November 14.
That is the identical date Toyota will reveal the Crown SUV, which the automaker previewed final yr with the Crown Property idea.
Each autos must be offered on the 2023 Los Angeles auto present which begins Nov. 16.
The brand new Camry will doubtless begin gross sales subsequent yr as a 2025 mannequin. The teaser photograph offers little in the best way of element however does verify there will probably be an possibility for a hybrid powertrain paired with all-wheel drive, an possibility that is not at the moment out there within the Camry.
It is not clear whether or not the all-wheel-drive system will probably be a standard setup or shaped “via the highway” utilizing a gasoline engine up entrance and an electrical motor on the rear. Such a setup options within the Crown sedan launched for 2023, and some different Toyotas.
The present Camry arrived for the 2018 mannequin yr, and introduced with it a brand new platform and three new powertrains. We will thus anticipate the brand new Camry to be extra of a heavy replace than a real redesign. Spy photographs of prototypes level to an identical form.
The present Camry’s powertrain lineup consists of a 203-hp 2.5-liter inline-4, a 208-hp hybrid with a 2.5-liter inline-4 and an E-CVT, and a 301-hp 3.5-liter V-6. It is attainable one of many Crown’s hybrid powertrains utilizing electrical motors entrance and rear will probably be made out there on the brand new Camry.
Although the sedan phase is not as scorching because it was once, the Camry stays one of the vital well-liked autos within the U.S. Final yr’s gross sales tally got here in at simply over 295,000 models.