When you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you. http://grassrootsmotorsports.com/new-cars/2012-toyota-camry/
When you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you. http://grassrootsmotorsports.com/new-cars/2012-toyota-camry/
For a magazine with "motorsports" in the title, you guys pull some weird choices out of the press pool.
Yeah, we don't always choose what shows up in the press pool. Sometimes it's a C6 Z06.......sometimes it is a bland-mobile.
Believe me, if we got to choose, this car wouldn't be high on the list.
I'd think the review should include a lap time of some nearby track.
My guess is if they want to get handed the keys to something fun, they also need to review the boring stuff. Fortunately, the manufacturers seem to be happy with web-publishing vs. wasting paper on printed reviews.
Tom Suddard Intern: It was large and boring, but it had great power. Kind of like Jabba the Hut.
In reply to Joe Gearin:
"grassroots commuting"
(Online only....just stick the reviews of boring cars there.)
All I know is that if I ever were to buy a Camry, it would have to be painted in a camouflage scheme. It would actually stand out more.
Whoa didn't take them long to copy the Kia Cerato's grille and headlights. Bumper looks like the FR-S' a little bit. But it gives me the feeling that it wasn't designed by a horribly underpaid guy who hates his job so that's good.
Yep, another blandmobile which will sell in the millions to those who like their transportation drama free, thus supplying the parent company with $ or yen or euros or ? to spend on their racing program for the likes of us. In that respect, it gets mine. 
Good one, Tommy. 
I recently got a new Camry SE as a rental. It was the sportiest driving sedan I've gotten out of the rental fleet in a while, especially compared to the '10-'11 Camrys. I was also really surprised when I got a '12 Impala the other week and mashed the gas for the first time...enough so that I went and looked it up and it has the 300+hp direct injected V6 in it now. What a sleeper.
Keith wrote: For a magazine with "motorsports" in the title, you guys pull some weird choices out of the press pool.
Yeah, like Joe said, we get what the press car gods send us. We can (and do) make choices when it comes to stuff that we're going to track test, but for these little online updates we pretty much review whatever comes our way.
Last week, for example, we had a Porsche Cayman. This week we have a Malibu hybrid. That Malibu is pretty decent, to be honest. If it wasn't sent our way, I probably never would have driven it. Color me impressed. Am I going to race it? Heck, no. But I'd say it's a nice people-mover that's good on gas.
David S. Wallens wrote: Yeah, like Joe said, we get what the press car gods send us.
Listen to me! You have to consider the possibility that God does not like you. He never wanted you. In all probability, he hates you. This is not the worst thing that can happen. -- Tyler Durden
Giant Purple Snorklewacker wrote:David S. Wallens wrote: Yeah, like Joe said, we get what the press car gods send us.Listen to me! You have to consider the possibility that God does not like you. He never wanted you. In all probability, he hates you. This is not the worst thing that can happen. -- Tyler Durden
This Camry is your life, and it's ending one corner at a time.
Tighter suspension, a manual, and we might have something slightly amusing. And to top it off, people quit looking at Camrys 20 years ago, so you'd NEVER stand out in traffic!
You guys seem to be missing the fact that this Camry does 0-60 in 5.7 seconds. It's fun if you don't mind squealing tires and defacing the reputation of septuagenarians everywhere.
The Camry is the '32 Ford of our day. In 70 years, everyone will be hot rodding them.
mndsm wrote: And to top it off, people quit looking at Camrys 20 years ago, so you'd NEVER stand out in traffic!
A Camry travelling at a 120+ mph still stands out... a former co-worker has the tickets to prove it...
pinchvalve wrote: The Camry is the '32 Ford of our day. In 70 years, everyone will be hot rodding them.
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I was laughing the whole time.
After you passed the Miata and the E30 i felt a pretty good joke about most of the people on this forum coming on..
Although that video also brings out a bit of the Confucius in me: He who does not have to drive home on those tires can pass many commuters on track..
You guys seem to be missing the fact that this Camry does 0-60 in 5.7 seconds.
Im sure as heck not missing it. Im not afflicted with the same blind spots as a lot of people here.. That thing is a good starting point for a very entertaining car. Hell, i even LIKE the styling and some of the interior options.
I just really dont like the steering wheel.
And at the end of the day, id rather be hauling ass in a Sienna with the same motor instead.
he was hustling that thing around the track pretty darn well
bet there were a few embarrassed folk in "race" cars that day ... looked like he was even catching the Evo/STI ( whatever that winged thing was that came out a couple of laps from the end ....
I laughed at all the times the driver inadvertently reached for a shifter
Driving pedestrian cars should give the staff more perspective of how performance cars are developing relative to the total market. How can someone accurately write about sports cars if he or she still thinks that average sedans drive like a mid-nineties Lumina?
How can someone accurately write about sports cars if he or she still thinks that average sedans drive like a mid-nineties Lumina?
Bravo! Excellent way of putting it!
And for that matter, thinking that average sedans still drive like a mid 90s lumina is probably exaclty how people dismiss cars like these as being boring when, in the grand context of all the crap that fills the roads, it's really not. Id rather drive this camry than probably 96% of everything i see on the roads every day.
Vigo wrote:How can someone accurately write about sports cars if he or she still thinks that average sedans drive like a mid-nineties Lumina?Bravo! Excellent way of putting it! And for that matter, thinking that average sedans still drive like a mid 90s lumina is probably exaclty how people dismiss cars like these as being boring when, in the grand context of all the crap that fills the roads, it's really not.
I have driven my parents new Camry. It is pretty damn dull.
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