TMR’s Tony O’Kane is at the launch of the Hybrid Camry. Watch this space for our review.

TOYOTA AUSTRALIA has today launched the 2010 Toyota Hybrid Camry, the first locally-built hybrid car and one of the most efficient cars in its segment.

Officially unveiled in December, much of the Hybrid Camry’s specific details have been revealed [...]

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TOYOTA AUSTRALIA HAS confirmed its own expectations of the 2010 Hybrid Camry this week, with ADR testing returning official fuel consumption and CO2 emissions figures of 6.0 l/100km and 142g/km.

Speaking at the Hybrid Camry’s press launch last month, Toyota Australia’s Peter Evans said that, based on the company’s own internal testing, numbers in the [...]

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THE WESTERN AUSTRALIA Labor Opposition wants more State Governments to take a leaf from the books of Victoria and the Federal Government on greener fleets.

Opposition spokesperson on climate change, Alannah MacTiernan, said this week that WA and other State Governments need to consider climate change when purchasing fleet vehicles in the future.

This week, the [...]

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TOYOTA AUSTRALIA’S upcoming Hybrid Camry will be offered in at least two specification levels, both pitched to the upper end of the mid-size market segment.

An up-spec Hybrid Camry with leather upholstery, power seats and a large integrated sat-nav screen was revealed to the media earlier today at Toyota Style Australia’s Port Melbourne headquarters.

At the Hybrid Camry’s official reveal [...]

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TOYOTA AUSTRALIA today unveiled the 2010 Hybrid Camry at a ceremony at the company’s Altona assembly plant.

Today’s ceremony, which was attended by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, Victorian Premier John Brumby and the Japanese ambassador Takaahi Kojima,  marks the official start of full Hybrid Camry production, with sales to commence in February next year.

The most technologically advanced [...]

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TOYOTA AUSTRALIA has released another snippet of information on its upcoming Hybrid Camry, highlighting its fuel savings. According to Toyota, the Hybrid Camry’s petrol-electric system will save city-based motorists at least 1100 litres of fuel each year.

Basing its figure on an unleaded petrol cost of $1.20 per litre and 20,000km of city driving, Toyota [...]

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TOYOTA SAYS ITS Hybrid Camry, due to go on sale in February next year, will be quieter, more powerful and better handling than the regular Camry.

New images released today reveal a sportier front bumper, which Toyota says contributes to styling that is both “progressive” and, in the case of its drag coefficient, “more aerodynamic”.

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TOYOTA AUSTRALIA has launched a new television advertisement, titled ‘Better Together’, designed to promote its Hybrid Synergy Drive in Australia.

The commercial is built on the idea that two can achieve more than one - a message that Toyota Australia’s David Buttner describes as a metaphor for the company’s hybrid vehicles.

“The advertisement is about a [...]

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TOYOTA AUSTRALIA has this week revealed a sneak peak at the interior of the upcoming Hybrid Camry, offering a glimpse of the hybrid’s unique instrument cluster.

Set to be the first hybrid car to be built in Australia, full-scale production is scheduled to begin in December. Pre-production is already underway, with a small number of Hybrid [...]

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FOLLOWING THE UNVEILING of the Hybrid Camry Concept Vehicle at the Melbourne Motor Show earlier this year, pilot production of the Hybrid Camry has begun at Toyota’s Altona assembly plant in Victoria today.

Full-scale production is scheduled to begin in December, with the pilot production phase seeing a small number of Hybrid Camrys produced for [...]

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AS FAR AS NASCAR pace cars go, the Toyota Hybrid Camry would seem to be an unlikely candidate for the job.

The Camry nameplate isn’t exactly one that’s storied in motorsport history and people usually associate hybrids with fuel-sipping thrift, not fast-paced sprints.

But that perception may change. Toyota has decided to throw its tree-hugging [...]

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Along with the futuristic 1/X Concept (pronounced one-Xth) and the all-new third-generation Prius, Toyota will be unveilling its Hybrid Camry Concept Vehicle at the Melbourne International Motor Show.

Conceived and produced as an in-house project by Toyota Style Australia, the Hybrid Camry Concept Vehicle (or HC-CV) carries an aesthetic similar to Toyota Australia’s 2005 Sportivo Coupe [...]

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