The 2.5-liter gasoline engine was replaced by a hybrid power plant based on a 2-liter engine
Today, the GAC Toyota joint venture officially introduced the latest Toyota Camry — ninth generation sedan. Retail prices have now been announced, and they are lower than pre-order prices. The most affordable Camry with a 2-liter gasoline engine and CVT (Camry 2.0 E Elite Edition) is priced at $23.9 thousand. Let us remind you that the minimum price at the pre-order stage was 24.5 thousand dollars.
The cost of the Camry 2.0 HE Elite Edition with a hybrid power plant based on a 2-liter engine (this power plant replaced the 2.5-liter engine in the previous Camry, produced in Russia) — from 25 thousand dollars. And the most expensive hybrid Camry with the same 2-liter engine (Camry 2.0 HXS Sport Plus) is priced at 28.7 thousand dollars.
In fact, the Camry in China has three powertrains: in addition to two two-liter variants, there will be a hybrid based on a 2.5-liter engine, but this version will hit the market later, so the company did not disclose its characteristics now. As for the 2-liter hybrid, its power is 197 hp, and the declared consumption — only 4.2 l/100 km.
The dimensions of the new Camry are 4915 × 1840 × 1450 mm, wheelbase — 2825 mm. There is a lot of new things in the car, and first of all it is a media system with a single-chip Qualcomm Snapdragon 8155 system, 12 GB of RAM and 128 GB of flash memory, CarPlay, CarLife and HiCar protocols, support for face recognition and voice control. < /p>
For the first time, the Camry has an «electrostatic touch panel» climate system control. The car also received atmospheric lighting with 64 colors and a new projection screen with augmented reality.