It’s been over a year since the Toyota Camry was
launched in Japan, and to keep the D-segment sedan fresh in everyone’s minds,
Toyota has introduced the Camry Sports variant. The sportier look, previously
available only in the United States and Australia, is finally making its way to
the car’s home market.
The result is an exterior design that is far more
aggressive than the standard Camry, coming with a large gloss black X-shaped
graphic across the front end, together with bigger air intakes, deeper side
skirts, fake air vents under the tail lights, a bootlid lip spoiler and a rear
diffuser with twin exposed exhaust exits. The interior gets metallic decorative
trim panels and paddle shifters.
Those paddles are connected to the same hybrid
powertrain as before, consisting of a 178 hp/221 Nm A25A-FXS 2.5 litre Dynamic
Force direct-injected petrol engine and a 120 PS/202 Nm electric motor to
produce a total system output of 211 PS. Fuel consumption is rated at 33.4 km
per litre on the Japanese JC08 cycle.
The Camry Sports is offered in two variants, the WS
(which stands for “Worldwide” and “Sports”) and the WS Leather
Package. The latter gets genuine leather seats, plus 18-inch alloy
wheels in a new two-tone finish, a head-up display, a power-adjustable front
passenger seat to match the driver’s and a T-Connect navigation system.
Prices range between 3,672,000 yen for
the WS and 4,341,600 yen for the WS Leather Package. A total of 10
exterior colours are offered, including three two-tone colour schemes that pair
Platinum White Pearl Mica, Emotional Red and Dark Blue Mica Metallic with an
Attitude Black Mica roof.
