Toyota Camry Passes 850,000 Sales In Australia, RAV4 Turns 20

Toyota is celebrating a pair of key milestones this year with its long-running Camry and RAV4 models.

For the Camry, it’s news that the current seventh-generation model has pushed the badge to more than 850,000 Australian sales, 32 years on from its first local appearance as an award-winning imported liftback.

The Camry has been built in Australia since the second generation launched in 1987, making ours the first market outside of Japan to produce the model locally.

In 2014, with a 6.2 percent increase over the same period in 2013, the midsized RAV4 is on track to better last year’s 16,983 Australian sales.

"A driving force in the surging popularity of SUVs in Australia, RAV4 is more popular than ever with sales rising to an all-time record last year - a feat that is set to be beaten this year,” Toyota sales boss Tony Cramb said this week.