The Car Connection Expert Review
Likes
- Hybrid only powertrain
- Available AWD
- Good standard features
- Standard wireless CarPlay
- 51 mpg
Dislikes
- We’ll miss the V-6
- Too much dash plastic
- Cramped rear seat entry
Buying tip
features & specs
Sold only as a hybrid, the 2025 Toyota Camry with all-wheel drive represents the most potent and practical option.
With the Camry, Toyota has rarely veered from a winning midsize sedan recipe. Again for 2025 the Camry’s automotive comfort food. Not deconstructed, not capped with gold flake and caviar, it’s just mac and cheese out of a box—a nice box, but a box nevertheless.
What kind of vehicle is the 2025 Toyota Camry? What does it compare to?
The redesigned 2025 Toyota Camry hybrid is a sedan that rivals the Honda Accord and Hyundai Sonata but rubs elbows with the larger Toyota Crown.
Is the 2025 Toyota Camry a good car?
Good standard safety and convenience features, a modern design, and an enhanced hybrid system with a more potent all-wheel-drive option bring the ‘25 Camry up to a TCC Rating of 7.0 out of 10, with safety scores yet to be included. (Read more about how we rate cars.)
What's new for the 2025 Toyota Camry?
It’s a moderately revamped version of the previous Camry, but now it’s hybrid-only. Toyota doesn’t dress it much differently for the occasion, fitting it with different mesh or horizontally ribbed front ends, and a range of wheels from 16 to 19 inches. The shape’s the most edgy in Camry history, down to the available black roof, and it still stands out in its genre. The interior’s working space stands out less, with bigger touchscreens that stand out on a more simply penned dash. More cohesive than before, the Camry interior has some inexpensive trim in some obvious places, but it works well.
Is there a 2025 Toyota Camry Hybrid?
Yes—every Camry’s now a hybrid 2.5-liter inline-4 that nets 225 hp in front-drive form, and 232 hp with the all-wheel-drive system’s addition of a rear motor. It’s moderately quick and its hybrid transmission simulates an 8-speed automatic as best as it can, but the best thing the Camry powertrain does is sip fuel to the astounding top rating of 53 mpg highway in LE trim. You might prefer the more taut suspension and sharper feedback from the XSE and its 19-inch wheels, but it’ll send fuel economy diving into the (still!) mid-40s.
Stick with the LE and XLE trims and the Camry’s cloth or leather interior posts up with more supportive front seats and a total passenger space that’s a fraction away from qualifying as a large car by EPA standards. Tall rear seat passengers won’t have any extra headroom to share, but rear-seat kneeroom is abundant. The Camry has a 15.1 cubic-foot trunk, too, large enough for at least a couple of wheeled carry-ons.
Is the 2025 Toyota Camry safe?
Crash tests by the IIHS give the Camry a Top Safety Pick+ award, but the NHTSA's tests likely won’t be completed until next year. Toyota equips the 2025 Camry with automatic emergency braking with pedestrian and cyclist detection, adaptive cruise control, active lane control, blind-spot monitors, traffic sign recognition, and automatic high beams. Options on the Premium Plus package include a surround-view camera system and parking assist with automatic braking.
How much does the 2025 Toyota Camry cost?
Prices start at $29,495 for the Camry LE and step up through the $31,795 SE, $34,495 XLE, and $35,695 XSE trims. All-wheel drive costs $1,525 on any version.
Standard equipment includes a 7.0-inch digital gauge cluster, an 8.0-inch touchscreen with wireless Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, a wireless smartphone charger, five USB ports, a satellite radio trial, keyless start, and a dual-zone climate control.
The SE adds black exterior elements, a dual-tip exhaust and, on the inside, aluminum sport pedals, a power driver seat, and a leather-trimmed steering wheel with paddle shifters.
The XLE and XSE upgrade to a 12.3-inch digital instrument cluster and 12.3-inch touchscreen, as well as leather upholstery and heated power front seats.
Every Camry carries a 3-year/36,000-mile basic warranty, while the hybrid components are covered for eight years or 100,000 miles. Two years or 25,000 miles of scheduled maintenance are also included as part of the purchase price.
Where is the 2025 Toyota Camry made?
In Georgetown, Kentucky.
2025 Toyota Camry Styling
It’s still the most daring Camry to date.
Is the Toyota Camry a good-looking car?
Toyota has mildly restyled the ninth-generation Camry and made it hybrid only, but it takes on nearly the same proportions and the same basic structure as its predecessor. Both stand out in Camry history with their daring shape, though the 2025 edition’s far from avant garde. With a point extra for the body, it’s a 6 in styling.
The new Camry is about 1.4 inches longer, but that’s mostly just a difference in bumper design. Toyota scrapped the busy X-wing fighter grille for a calmer front face stretched by a wide lower grille in mesh or bar designs that could be mistaken for the lower half of the Lexus spindle grille. Side air intakes bracket the ends and a bar across the center marks where the hood dips down and the grille stands up. That bar also stitches the LED headlights similar to the Toyota Crown. It rolls on 18-inch black alloy wheels, but 19s are available, and 16s fit on the base LE, giving it an advantage in fuel economy.
A body line rises through the door handles to the wraparound LED taillights, and a subtle body crease cuts a triangle of static motion from the bottom of the front wheel to the top of the rear wheel. Above it the roofline arcs more like the Accord and Sonata in suggesting an aerodynamic fastback shape, but the Camry still houses a trunk.
The interior upgrades center on new touchscreen interfaces that iron out the folds in the old dash. The old one overlapped in the center and dovetailed into the console, and now unfolds horizontally with a more integrated 8.0-inch or available 12.3-inch touchscreen. It’s a calmer, more cohesive look, though the passenger side still has a wall at the console that holds the same panel for drive modes and a mechanical shift lever.
2025 Toyota Camry Performance
Despite the looks, a suburban sameness marks the latest Camry.
The latest Camry’s hybrid-only gambit pays off handsomely in fuel economy. As for other performance aspects, it’s worth an extra point for its nimble ride-and-handling tune, for a 6 here.
Is the Toyota Camry 4WD?
Some of them are. In its natural state the Camry’s a front-driver, but all-wheel drive can be ordered on any trim line. It’s a through-the-road system, which means Toyota augments the hybrid powertrain’s front-drive traction by adding a rear motor to power those wheels. The big brains under the hood simply sense wheel slip, then ship some of the battery power to the rear motor.
How fast is the Toyota Camry?
It’s fast enough to merge efficiently and step away from stoplights cleanly. Toyota’s former three-engine lineup has been pared down to the single gas-electric one. This latest rendition of Toyota’s hybrid system has lighter and more compact motors, and teams with the carryover 2.5-liter inline-4 to combine for a net output of 225 hp with front-wheel drive. The all-wheel-drive model’s extra motor lifts that net to 232 hp.
Toyota fits all versions with Normal, Eco, and Sport driving modes, which bring their own throttle and powertrain programs to the party, but it’s not such a wide span that any are missed. Regardless of the mode, the roughly 3,500-pound Camry develops power off the line quickly enough, thanks to the extra boost from the traction battery.
The hybrid transmission gets artificial gears that mimic an 8-speed automatic, and Camry SE sedans even have shift paddles to simulate a good time.
Where the Camry elevates the family-sedan basics is in great steering feel and good brake modulation, both of which have been a part of the sedan’s portfolio since the last generation. A major upgrade in its body structure enabled it all, and the latest Camry proves a deft machine to needle through traffic or guide around wide sweeping turns.
A retuned suspension delivers mildly improved handling. The base car’s 16-inch tires felt the least taxed and most absorbent. All models have a MacPherson front strut and multilink rear suspension, but on the SE and particularly with the XSE’s 19-inch wheels and sport suspension tune, the resilience in the dampers goes away without pounding into the body structure. Mostly in LE and XLE trim—but really, in any model, the Camry’s benign but friendly attitude wins us over.
2025 Toyota Camry Comfort & Quality
The Camry remains a midsize sedan all-star.
With well-shaped front seats, the ability to carry five people, and a large trunk, the Camry gets an 8 for comfort and utility.
By the numbers, it sits 193.5 inches long, rides on a 111.2-inch wheelbase, and falls just shy of large-car states in EPA terms, at 99.9 cubic feet of interior volume.
In front, the base cloth seats have been improved for better support and comfort. The tweedy material Toyota uses around this interior grips and cushions well, and the seat bottoms are long enough for good highway cruising. The front seats can be covered in synthetic leather or in a mix of real leather and suede material, though we found the higher-end versions had more pronounced lumber adjustment that had to be dialed down for ideal comfort.
Rear-seat legroom of 38.0 inches can suit even tall passengers, but headroom of 37.6 inches will leave them slouching. The available sunroof cuts about a cubic foot of interior space, and those tall back-seat passengers will feel it, as the headliner touches their scalp.
The Camry’s trunk offers up 15.1 cubic feet of room for baggage, with fold-down rear seatbacks that can expand that space for longer items.
Some of the new Camry’s interior surfaces disappoint us. The infotainment screen’s surrounded by a glossy black trim, and only front passengers get soft-touch trim on the doors; the back doors have harder, grainy plastic. The Camry XLE’s quilted plush dash trim looks fab to some, lower-rent to others. Minus an ergonomic foible here and there—the sunshade powers out of sight with one switch, closed with another—it’s largely well organized.
2025 Toyota Camry Safety
It's a safety paragon.
How safe is the Toyota Camry?
The NHTSA hasn’t tested the 2025 Camry yet, but the IIHS has—and it awards the Camry its Top Safety Pick+ award.
All Camry sedans now come with automatic emergency braking, active lane control, adaptive cruise control, blind-spot monitors, and automatic high beams. On higher-end models, a Premium Plus package adds a surround-view camera system and automatic park assist. A head-up display also can be fitted.
Based on its crash test scores, standard safety gear, and options, we give the Camry an 8 here. With better outward rear vision, it would earn a 9.
2025 Toyota Camry Features
It’s still a value, but the Camry’s more expensive as a hybrid-only sedan.
The 2025 Camry comes in LE, SE, XLE, and XSE trims. All have good infotainment, the right standard features, and offer good value, though prices have risen across the all-hybrid lineup. We score that an 8.
Standard equipment on the $29,495 LE includes 16-inch wheels, a 7.0-inch digital gauge display, an 8.0-inch touchscreen with wireless Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, wireless smartphone charging, keyless start, LED headlights, manual front seats, and cloth upholstery. Options include a sunroof and a power driver seat.
All-wheel drive costs $1,525 on any model.
Every Camry has a 3-year/36,000-mile warranty, with two years or 25,000 miles of free scheduled service.
The $31,795 SE adds 18-inch wheels, black exterior trim, paddle shift controls, and synthetic leather seats with power driver adjustment.
Which Toyota Camry should I buy?
The $34,495 XLE and $35,695 XSE add on a 12.3-inch digital gauge screen and a 12.3-inch touchscreen, as well as heated power front seats, leather upholstery, and acoustic side glass. The XSE also sports 19-inch wheels and 40-series tires. Options include a bundle with a head-up display, 9-speaker JBL audio, cooled front seats, and a panoramic roof.
How much is a fully loaded Toyota Camry?
The most expensive Camry XSE with all-wheel drive costs $37,220 before options.
2025 Toyota Camry Fuel Economy
Every Camry scores the best possible gas-only rating.
Is the Toyota Camry good on gas?
It’s awesome, by any measure. Base Camry sedans earn EPA ratings of 53 mpg city, 50 highway, 51 combined in front-drive LE trim. All-wheel drive drops those to 51/49/50 mpg—but either way it’s a 7 here.
On our scale almost every version would earn the same score, since all share the same hybrid powertrain. All other front-drive trims get EPA ratings of 48/47/47 mpg, while SE and XLE cars with all-wheel drive check in at 46/46/46 mpg. Only the XSE with all-wheel drive and bigger tires would be rated a 6, thanks to its EPA numbers of 44/43/44 mpg.
Toyota grants even more cost savings at the pump: all Camrys can be run on regular unleaded.
