Easily one of the most popular cars on the road, Toyota has given its Camry a mild work-over for 2010 with particular focus on the high volume four-cylinder models.
Along with some minimalist design tweaks and a few other changes is a larger, more powerful four-cylinder engine that also gets better fuel-economy thanks to a transmission with one extra gear.
Last year's 2.4-liter four-banger is out in favor of a slightly-larger 2.5-liter unit. As expected, the power increase isn't enormous, with a total output of 169hp and 167 ft-lbs of torque. Still, that's up from seven percent from 158hp and 161 ft-lbs, and considering the last engine did a fine job, this one just makes acceleration a little less laborious.
Both LE and XLE models get the new 169-horse 2.5, while SE models get a slightly more potent version with 179hp and 171 ft-lbs.
As mentioned, helping out in the acceleration department is a six-speed automatic transmission, meaning that every Camry now comes with six cogs, rather than five.
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