Look around on any busy city street. How many Toyota Camrys do you see? Half a dozen maybe? More? Some of them twenty and even thirty years old? I can remember when seeing a thirty-five year old car in the city was a strange occurrence. Toyota, Honda and Nissan changed that. Probably the only Camry I don't see every day is the very first model, pictured below. Camry has been the best-selling car in America for fifteen years running and no end in sight. Back in the day, Ford tried frantically to move enough Tauruses to keep that title; now they no longer care. Toyota may have sold 178,000 Camrys in the first half of 2018, but
Ford sold 451,000 F-150 pickups.
* This Camry is a small, very basic economy car. Funny how every car model seems to get bigger and more luxurious the longer it remains in production. The original owner opted for an automatic transmission, but this is the base model and it does not have
the nice rims and two-tone paint job seen on the Camry LE.
* Say, what the heck is a "camry"?
According to Toyota, "Camry" comes from the Japanese word kanmuri for "Crown". OK then. I mean,
Toyota, already has a model called Crown.
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