Toyota Camry is being discontinued in its home country, Japan
from placing new orders for the Camry. The model will be phased out from Toyota's Japanese lineup by year's end. The paper also emphasizes that the Camry is still safe in overseas markets, including the U.S.
The plug-pull would end 43 continuous years of the Camry nameplate in Toyota's home country. The Camry was introduced in 1980 in Japan, and 1983 in the U.S. However, it was never a top seller at home as it was here. According to the, Toyota sold 1.3 million Camrys in Japan during its four decades on the market. In comparison, American sales have totaled 13 million, tenfold.
That's largely because Toyota offered Japanese buyers many more compelling alternatives. The Camry was Toyota's first front-wheel-drive model with a transversely mounted engine. However, in Japan customers could buy aor, in later years, a Mark X sedan that was more or less the same size but, crucially, rear-wheel-drive.
The third- and fourth-generation Camrys were arguably the best. That's when the Camry began its climb to the top spot on America's best-selling passenger car lists. It held that honor for four consecutive years, 1997-2000. However, those cars weren't popular in Japan because they were tailored for the American market. Their wider dimensions put them in a more expensive category for road taxes, throttling sales.
From 2001 onward, the Japanese Camrys were offered with four-cylinder engines only. The V6 engines were reserved for the Toyota Windom, a platform twin we would recognize as a
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