You can tell people that like to rest their feet on the dashboard, to feet their feet off the dash

the less you touch it, the cleaner it stays

 

I tried like heck to find a picture and after looking at a gallery of that model, couldn't really see a pimp-mobile dash. Could you post a picture of the Super-Fly Camry that is so ugly. Are there any with grey or blue leather seats?

 

Here's the light-gray color:

And here's the black:

But you really have to sit in the car and touch the material. If feels like a carpet. What were they on when they designed this?

 

Really, who touches it? I think I touched it once in June when I received the car. Is it my first choice? No. Do I like having rain sensing windshield wipers, seat memory and 18" wheels more? Yes.

 

That was the first thing I did when I opened the passenger door 🤣

 

I was immediately turned off by the ... what would you call that on the dash: Is that upholstery? Carpet?

I'm with you on this one, it added justification along with a couple of other reasons to go with a different trim. However, some may like it....

 

After reading so much about the new 2025 Camry XLE, I finally got a chance to sit inside one. I was immediately turned off by the ... what would you call that on the dash: Is that upholstery? Carpet? The rest of the interior is nice but, OMG, what were they thinking? I'm old enough to remember the 1970's, and you would see that kind of decor in what we used refer to as a "pimpmobile".

Yeah, it’s just one step from Cheech and Chong’s Love Machine.

 

It certainly wouldn't be my first choice in terms of materials, but one of the biggest complaint of the 2018-2024 Camry was its boring interior that had 'meh' materials. This is Toyota's attempt to address that complaint- for better or for worse.

It should hold up just fine in the long run. Toyota used fabric (probably cheaper quality) on the doors of most of their non-leather equipped cars in the 90s and early 2000- and that fabric held up fine as long as you cleaned it every once in a while. When you vacuum the floor mats or clean the dash, gently vacuum the material on the dash and you'll be fine.

 

and that fabric held up fine as long as you cleaned it every once in a while

I'm the original owner of my 2003 Camry that has cloth on the doors.. I never cleaned them and they look fine (no kids in the car).

- Karen

 

While I was torn between getting a fully loaded XLE and XSE, I made a pros and cons list of both cars to help me decide. That carpet feeling trim was under the cons list. With all said, I got the XSE and no regrets. The leatherette trim looks much better than the carpet. I was also okay without auto wipers, never used it and hated how sensitive it gets on my previous vehicles. I do wish XSE has memory seats tho, but was not enough for me to choose the XLE trim.

 

I will probably also be choosing between 2025 Camry XLE and XSE - I'm that unhappy with the carpet trim. If you wouldn't mind, would you PM me your pros and cons list? XSE seems to be a 'sports' model. Will it also have a sportier ride? (Forgive me, but I prefer the comfortable ride of XLE.)

 

The SE material looks and feels a bit better. It was a small but present factor in my choice between this and the XLE. Plus, on our test drive I caused a mild panic in the salesman when I easily ripped the whole trim panel off while testing its durability... I wasn't the biggest fan of the black plastic vent thingy either, but I literally don't even notice either anymore after 3k miles. I am too busy admiring how amazing everything else is. From the wireless AA that works great on the nice big screen, to the fairly decent instrument panel and no-nonsense buttons all around. The rest of the car is pretty basic but I didn't want to pay 15k more for a Lexus...

There are some "alcantara" panel replacements on eBay I've been kinda curious about...

 

The carpet trim is for wiping snots or greasy hands after McDonald’s drive thru. It’s in the user manual under interior features.

 

hmm the the + and - symbols did not show, the top are pros, bottom are the cons

 

Toyota struggles with its dash/ touch point materials. I have a 2008 Lexus IS350 that gets "gummy" on its dash and door panels. I know there WAS (long long ago) a recall that its then owner ignored - but I wish they took it in for replacement as over the years it gets worse and worse. Really a problem as I like to bring my German Shepard along and that fur really creates a challenge to remove. I suspect if I ignore it long enough my Lexus will also look like Cheech / Chongs "Lovemobile" : )

 

To each his own, of course. If you really hate it that much, pass. I don’t mind the stuff in my gray interior SE. Compared to my 2018 Prius, the interior in the new Camry seems very solid and free of unwanted noises. I’m beginning to suspect that part of the reason for putting this carpet-like stuff on the dash is for NVH/sound deadening. It’’s obviously no magic bullet, but it may help. Worried about it getting dirty? Treat it with Scotchguard. I wouldn’t seek the stuff out to use as decoration, but I find it totally non-offensive.

 

I like using the shifter itself to manually "shift" the transmission - more like a manual. That lasted about the first five minutes of ownership, now I just leave it all alone. I've owned cars with a true DCT setup and even the paddle shifters in those became useless since the car could out shift me no matter what. I truly miss actual manual transmissions but know they will be a part of history in another few years.

 

I call it "Grandma's Quilt". It is uglier than a bowling shoe. I very seriously considered getting an LE and add packages in order to get the less ugly version of that fabric. That would also let me have a smaller and more functional moonroof. In the end I went with XLE but took the black interior as Grandma's quilt doesn't stand out so much.

 

I was stunned to see the carpet on the dash of the XLE, I can't imagine what they were thinking! That tilted the balance to the XSE, and I never looked back.

 

At least you know you aren't still at work sitting in a pleather Herman Miller arm chair

 

Memory seats and rain sensing windshield wiper more than make up for quilted patterns...

 

I am also a bit perplexed by the choice to put cloth on the dash. With two boys playing baseball half the year, red dirt gets everywhere!

 

Perhaps Toyota has redefined Family to exclude kids?