It has either topped or has been near the top of the auto sales charts for years. They are considered safe, reliable transportation, and if you make it through your day without seeing one, expect the apocalypse, because Toyota has sold them by the millions, not only on American shores, but the world over. The Toyota Camry is a bastion to the brand, the one car that is a dead-nuts seller wherever it goes. It’s as offensive as a sweet old lady, as controversial as a cute kitten, and as boring as watching paint dry. Sure, they are used in NASCAR and NHRA, but those aren’t a real Camry and we all know it. They did run touring car for a few years, but that doesn’t really offset the seas of sand- and silver-colored sedans that haunt our roads, does it? Chances are good someone in your family owned a Camry. I’ve never owned one, nobody in my family has owned one. But I have had to ride in and drive one in the past.
And there is a Facebook group that is monitoring just how embedded these cars are in our society. “It’s Always A Fu#%ing Camry” has become a collection point for those who believe that the Toyota Camry signifies everything wrong with drivers. Their slogan (“Turn on your left blinker on for a right-hand turn, drive 15 under the speed limit and feel free to ‘create your own parking space’. The world is your oyster and we salute you, Camry driver!“) takes aim at the Camry’s targeted audience: people who value a car more as an appliance than anything else. Is it warranted? It certainly seems that Camry drivers aren’t the type to be bothered by such things as acceleration, cornering ability, or looks, doesn’t it? My brother owns a Solara (Camry Coupe) and it’s only redeeming quality is that it will start, run and drive everyday. After that, it’s the sound system he put into the car. His motorcycle covers any other want or need he desires.
What do you think? Is the biggest menace on the streets wearing Toyota badges and sandy-colored paint?
My 85 year old dad has a Camry. Before that he had a zq8 4.3 S10… but I picked that truck out for him. See what happens when you get old? You let your Dad drive a Camry.
Never owned one. No one in my family owns one or any toyota,no thanks!
Judging by the top photo it definitely IS a f**king Camry!
An Aygo popped out of its exhaust 9 months later!
Ha, good one.
Beige cars for beige people.
I’d walk before I drove a Japanese car of any kind. But Toyota is at the top of list of cars I won’t have.
BTW. I’d sure like to know how the car in the top picture go in that position.
Me too; I’m not sure how got there without being more banged up, unless somebody dropped it from a crane.
My wife drives a Camry, but she’s cautious enough about it that I don’t see her winding up on that page. It’s tough for me to imagine how a car could be more boring.
Push that gas pedal as hard as you can!!! ‘Cuz you THINK. ITS. THE. BRAKE.
Camry.
Plowing into convenience stores near you.
Camry’s – the unintended accelleration bit – I still swear there was some
psycho w/a white scarf + a nip of saki writing code that made them
to do the unintended acceleration problems – Camry’s are drive by wire.
My worst road foe’s – really – they aim for me !!!
(1) Handicap plates
(2) Toyota Prius
(3) Toyota Prius w/a Handicap plates – the worst
So its not just me! Road lice, we’re infested with them.
Around here it’s always a f**king Honda !
H orrible
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A **HOLE
I’ve always noticed this except with minivans. But camrys are just as bad. What’s worse is I’ve been around many a Camry driver who seemed to think they were cool or something cuz they drove a Camry
Back in the late 80s mom had a ’77 Corolla wagon with a four speed manual gearbox that would flat out haul ass. I drove it from PA to Florida and back in 1988 and that was the last time I drove a Japanese car of any sort.
This one was a prius…
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