The redesigned Toyota Camry, the hottest-selling car in America, has been declared as the Car of the Year 2007 by Motor Trend, the world’s automotive authority and part of PRIMEDIA’s Consumer Automotive Group. The award announced yesterday goes to the entire Camry range, including the Camry Hybrid. Last year’s winner was the Honda Civic.
‘Toyota Camry is a car that is innovative yet has a broad mainstream appeal. This is one of the toughest tasks facing any automaker. The Camry is the one car rival automakers all wish they could build. It offers something for nearly everyone – performance, efficiency and space – at a price most Americans can afford’, magazine Editor-in-Chief, Angus MacKenzie, said in a statement. The Japanese car maker offers the Camry in various models – with a regular four cylinder engine, or a sporty V-6 that enables it to hit 60 mph in just six seconds. Fuel economy conscious buyers can choose the Camry Hybrid, which uses the same innovative hybrid power train technology used in Toyota’s Prius to save gas.
The Camry beat 26 other models that were totally new or redesigned in the year prior to Jan. 1, 2007 – comprising six models from the U.S., 10 from Japan, five from Korea, four from Germany, one from the U.K., and one from Sweden.
Camry won in a very strong competitive field. There have never been more choices available to American car buyers. That is a fact of life in the 21st century. According to Autodata Corp. Toyota sold 350,481 Camrys this year through October to lead all cars in U.S. sales. The No. 2 car in sales is Toyota’s Corolla at 330,995.
Toyota, the world’s second largest automaker, last won Car of the Year in 2004 for its redesigned Prius hybrid. Toyota’s Tacoma pickup was Motor Trend’s Truck of the Year in 2005.
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