Toyota Camry XV70 Ascent Sport (2017-2024)

Synthesis of Style, Performance, and Innovation – Under the hood, the Camry delivers a spirited performance, offering a dynamic driving experience with responsive handling and efficient fuel economy. Whether navigating city streets or cruising on the highway, the Camry's performance is reliable and enjoyable. Show details

Excellent family sedan – What I love most about this car is how great it is to drive. It's smooth, quiet, has plenty of power and handles well in city traffic or cruising at 110 on the highway. Other notable features are the comfortable seats , fuel economy and overall fantastic build quality. Show details

Thoroughly Decent Car – We purchased our Camry new in 2019. As of March 2022 it has travelled 45,000km. So far we have not had a single issue. It does what we expect without hassle. The fuel economy is excellent. Even on interstate trips it does around 5 litres per 100km at the speed limit with the A/C on. The hybrid system and the Atkinson cycle petrol engine combine… Read more

well. We drive it in economy mode all the time which is fine for normal use. Fuel consumption around town is similar. Unlike normal cars, heavy traffic doesn't trash the fuel economy. We use E10 petrol because it needs this or 95RON. The hybrid system has other advantages. When sitting in the car waiting for the school pickup, the air conditioning can be left running with the engine only starting now and then to charge the battery. The car is quite low. You have to keep an eye on ground clearance. The suspension as a result is taught. With the car loaded it's easy to push suspension to its comfort limits. In normal situations it's fine. The steering is nice. The seating could be better. The drivers seat in typical Japanese fashion lacks the adjustability I have in my Falcon. The for-aft movement is electric which is a pain. My wife is shorter than me. I have to stand there in the rain waiting for the seat to motor back before I can get in. A quick bar adjuster would be preferable. I'm 184cm tall. Thankfully the seat goes back far enough. The Sat Nav is unwanted and unnecessarily difficult to use. You can't turn it off or remove it from the main screen. Toyota's method of keeping tabs on the vehicle and how it's driven I'm guessing. Like most people, I navigate with my phone. My other car is a 2013 Falcon XR6 ECOLPI. Also a great car, but the list of gripes, faults and technical issues would be far longer than the Camry. I'm a mechanic, the attention to detail under the bonnet is impressive. Overall, the Camry is an excellent vehicle. I'd recommend it without hesitation.

Surprisingly nice to drive, but Toyota should take a leaf out of Tesla's book – I had to wait until the 2020 model was released to get Apple CarPlay support, which largely papers over the otherwise anaemic built in nav / computer. The 2019 model was missing this feature, which made it a hard-pass. Tesla has figured out that customers don't like to make a >$30K purchase and have its software go out-of-date within a couple of… Read more

years and never get updates. At least with CarPlay, the software will update when my phone updates.

The hybrid model had a non-optional electric sunroof, which made the interior so low that my head touched the headliner even with the seat at the bottom position! I'm only 180cm high, so this seemed to be a very strange design choice by Toyota, making the hybrid variant a hard pass as well. Another issue is that Toyota hybrids notoriously have very aggressive regenerative braking that is not non-adjustable. For comparison, Tesla allows the level to be adjusted. Again, this is just software, where Tesla is lightyears ahead, and Toyota lags very badly.

I got the 2.5 L petrol variant, which is "efficient enough" for my needs. Factoring in the lower price and the relatively good reliability of the Toyota, it was a no-brainer. This is where Tesla is just far too expensive and will never win out, even if electricity is free!

Fundamentally, the Camry has been a very nice car overall, and fantastic relative to its cost. It's smooth to drive, quiet, surprisingly powerful, and has almost every nice-to-have feature I want, but doesn't waste my money on features that are just gimmicks. Radar cruise control has been very useful on long trips, and the mirrors are set up "just right" so that I can drive confidently and safely. I've test-driven many cars, and rented many more, and it's these little things that are often done badly even in very expensive top-end models. Toyota generally gets everything "just right". I can rest my arm on the door panel comfortably, I can drive with one finger if I choose, and the indicators/controls are on the "correct" side for Australia. Not like Mercedes Benz -- they'll charge you twice as much, but sell you a car with the controls mirrored because their primary markets are right-hand drive.

The one thing -- the only thing -- that annoys me about my purchase is that the built-in warnings about excessive speed or upcoming speed cameras uses voice recordings. That go on. And on... for like... a minute. I miss the "ding-ding" sound from my old Mitsubishi, which doesn't interrupt the conversation in the car, or talk over my phone call.

Seriously, Toyota representatives, if you're reading this: It would cost nothing in real dollar terms to add a software feature to allow warnings to be simple "ding" noises instead of some woman reading a paragraph of text. Nothing.

2020 Hybrid Sport Camry – Bought this Camry hybrid from a local dealer. It was a demo with only 12k klm on the clock. Picked the Sport version over the base model as it has a few more little extras that I wanted. This is basically a get around town and occasional tourer for my wife and I. We are both retired. The car has heaps of room in the cabin and the boot is enormous.… Read more

Didn't particularly want a hybrid but at the time it was the only choice. Having now had the car for a couple of months I've become a convert. Over all this has been a great choice. My wife and I drove a lot of other cars to compare and found the Toyota the most comfortable and solid feeling of the lot. All the Camry's are fully imported from Japan so the build quality and reliability is great. Both my sons also have Camry's of various ilk and are also very happy with the cars. They are basically bullet proof. Cheap to run and cheap to service. The other good point is their resale value is also good. I think for the price Toyota could have included auto dimming rear view mirrors for this model. Other tan that no complaints.

excellence car I 've ever have before – In the past 35 years , we 'd been owned many cars , including used Ford , BMW , new Commodore, Honda and Mazda...vv, then I bought the Camry Hybrid Avv50R in 2016 and again in 2019 my wife she purchased the Camry Hybrid Axvh71R (the order was need 7 months waiting ) , so far we are very satisfied with these two cars. Show details

Fantastic car – After the death of Ford and Holden, I was looking for a new sedan. I settled on the Camry ascent sport hybrid. I went down to my nearest Toyota dealer for a test drive and fell in love instantly. It's comfortable, it's intuitive and for a medium to large sedan it handles itself well in small places. The fuel economy is outstanding, the sticker… Read more

says 4.2L/100km and even with some spirited driving I still avg about 5.1L/100km. The hybrid system is almost inaudible but still packs enough punch to get you around a road train or back on the highway quickly.

My family of 4 fit in with no problems, both teenagers have plenty of space to stretch out in the back even with both front seat all the way back.

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I enjoy my car but it has its limitations – I use my car daily for volunteer cancer care hospital patient transportation. It is serviced as and when required. I found it limited on a country drive to the west of NSW on a short unsealed road. It is very low so not really suited to Australian conditions, considerable dust entered around the doors and through the battery internal cooling vent… Read more

over seats etc. Under wheel arch stone flaps worn away and plastic undershielding filled with stones and sills cracked, toyota and dealer disinterested. If you are driving in normal country conditions a Camry Hibrid is not the car for you!

Pretty Good – Very good sedan. Great value for money. Lots of safety gear. Top fuel economy. The only minus is auto high beam is too slow to dip. Will ask at next service if can be adjusted. Wanted a Hybrid but couldn't wait 3 months as only have one car. Yes buy one for sure. Show details

Toyota Camry Ascent Sport 2018 – We purchased this car for my sister as she is expecting a new baby and her previous car, a 2000 Honda Accord, was getting on in age. She was particular about not getting a SUV so we were limited in choice to a traditional sedan, which we soon found out there were minimal options. After a few months of research we decided on the new era Camry… Read more

Ascent which is the first generation to be produced in Japan. It has all the safety features you can ask for, lovely interior styling and plenty of room. Unfortunately the major drawback we didn’t even consider, nor did the manufacturer or anyone else, was that a capsule for the baby cannot be fitted in the back seat. This is because the head rests are not removable or adjustable as they are formed as part of the entire back seat. This means the strap that hooks on the rear parcel shelf is at risk of slipping off the head rest and loosing tension. We spoke with Toyota and they refused to assist advising that they cannot be expected to design their cars for all aftermarket products. I feel that this is unacceptable as they are marketed as a family sedan. Maxi Cosi, the producer of the capsule, advised they have not had this issue before and after some research advised that their product nor any competitors product could be fitted in the Camry due to the design of the rear seats and headrest. We have been advised that in the future there are certain car seats that can be fitted however that won’t be an option for my sister until the baby is 6-8 months old. In summary a great value car for the money, however it not suitable for the main reason for our purchase. I’ll keep this updated with our progress.

GPS hoax – I think most of you will be as staggered to know as I that Toyota only issue map updates for there in car GPS once every 3 years. It comes with safety camera alerts, school zones, etc. My wife has a Ford Mondeo which has free lifetime maps updated yearly. How many changes to these and to road layouts happen over 3 years. Thank God I have my… Read more

Tomtom. Also the GPS in the Camry is too hard to navigate through its latout compared to portable GPS units. And then Toyota want to charge the same price as it would cost to buy a new portable GPS to update their maps every 3 years. Also, this was previously easily done via an SD card on previous models but that is not an option anymore. The dealer must do it. You’ll quickly get sick of the woman’s voice telling you about school zone warnings. You get one message when approaching, one when you enter and one when you leave the school zone. Tomtom can tell the time when school zones are active but Camry can’t so you get these 3 warning messages 24/7. Toyota, I am losing the feeling.