Toyota Hybrid Camry On Track and dynamically sound

Location: State Motorcycle facility at Broadford, Victoria.

I’ve got Australian Rally Guru Neal Bates riding shotgun with me (Rick Bates is here too), and my instructions for this braking test are to flatten the throttle in the Hybrid Toyota Camry from a standing start, hold it to the firewall until the car reaches 110km/h, then hit the brakes with as much force as I can possibly muster, bringing the car to a complete stop.

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Toyota Australia continues its local manufacturing with the seventh generation Camry launched in Melbourne this week. Prices start from $30,490 for the fleet-favourite Altise and top at $39,990 for the newly introduced Atara SL.

Sporting a new 2.5-litre four-cylinder engine mated to a six-speed automatic transmission, the new 2012 Toyota Camry is more powerful and fuel efficient than ever before.

It’s been over 24 years since the very first Toyota Camry was built in Victoria and over t...

The all-new Toyota Camry hybrid has gone on sale with a vast list of improvements and a mission to capture more of the private buyer segment.

Based on the new seventh-generation Toyota Camry, the new hybrid range is now more fuel efficient, faster and has a lower starting price than the model it replaces. Toyota is sticking to its guns with hybrid technology, claiming worldwide sales of over 3.5 million hybrid vehicles (the majority of which have been in Japan and North America), which t...