The all-new 2018 Toyota Camry is now on sale in Australia. This is the freshly imported version, following the closure of Toyota Australia’s local manufacturing which included the Camry. You have to admit, the new model looks pretty flash, especially in racy SX guise. Four main variant grades are being […]
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Editorial: How the Coalition ended car manufacturing in Australia
Well, here we are at the end of almost a century of car making in Australia, following Ford closing down its local factory in October last year, and Toyota shutting its doors this week, and Holden just around the corner. How did we get here? Our beleaguered automotive industry has […]
Toyota Australia production comes to an end
After an outstanding 54-year effort, Toyota Australia has ended local manufacturing. The last car rolled off the production line at the Altona plant in Melbourne earlier this morning. Toyota Australia has been producing cars here since 1963, when it started making the Tiara. It has since produced nine different models […]
Toyota announces Commemorative Camry, celebrates Aussie production
While Ford had the Falcon XR Sprint editions and Holden had the Director and Motorsport Commodores, Toyota is introducing a special edition Camry, suitably, to say goodbye to its Australian-made cars. It’s called the Camry Commemorative edition. Toyota could have chosen the Aurion for a special edition, but instead it […]
Toyota ‘Dynamic Force’ engine tech to spread across segments
Toyota’s new 2.5-litre four-cylinder engine, which will debut in the 2018 Camry, is the first of a new wave of engine families to adopt its latest ‘Dynamic Force’ engine philosophy. The 2018 Camry continues with a 2.5-litre four-cylinder. However, the engine itself is vastly different from the existing 2.5. For […]
2018 Toyota Camry on sale in Australia in November
Toyota Australia is preparing for the departure of the Toyota Aurion later this year and has confirmed details and some specs for the all-new Camry, arriving in November. With the V6 Aurion soon to be extinct – in terms of Aussie production anyway – Toyota will be using the powerful […]
2017 Toyota Camry Hybrid Atara SL review (video)
Toyota Australia sells thousands of Camrys every month. But, strangely, there is no sports variant to attract a wider demographic. Instead, the most powerful and quickest variant is the Camry hybrid. Next year Toyota Australia will be introducing the all-new Camry, based on Toyota’s New Generation Architecture. Buyers will be […]
Top 10 medium cars coming to Australia by 2020
The inexorable march of the SUV appears to be coming at the expense of conventional cars, swallowing up their sales numbers and splintering into ever more fragmented pieces. Large sedans are on the way out, which means medium cars have to sharpen their act or become tractor food. Luckily for […]