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”.

Along with [...]

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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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Toyota Australia has announced that it will slow production volumes at its Altona plant from March until May, citing softening demand in domestic and export markets. The plant produces four-cylinder Camry and six-cylinder Aurion models for both the Australian market and the major export market of the Middle East.

Toyota’s 3500 employees will each shed eight [...]

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Toyota has today unveiled its Hybrid Camry at the Australian International Motor Show, forming just one component of a very hybrid-focused stand for Toyota this year.

The model on display is a left-hand-drive US-specification car, which has been brought specially to Australia for evaluation by Toyota Australia and the Federal Government.

Production of an Aussie-built hybrid Camry [...]

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Toyota has announced that it will be bringing a LHD hybrid Camry to Sydney for the Motor Show in early October. No, it’s not likely to be as exciting as seeing the Cadillac CTS, nor will the tradies drool over it like they might the Isuzu D-MAX, but it’s bound to tickle a few green [...]

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