What I find interesting about the "review" by this woman (not a man, from what I can tell ... 5'4" and named "Stef") is how - on at least one point - it is factually wrong. She goes on at length about how the tuning knob for the radio is blocked by the wheel ... wrong darling, that's the volume knob ... and so she couldn't easily tune radio stations. She's also annoyed by a screen that's too big (really digging for complaints, aren't we)?!?! Ironically, I use virtually nothing but the steering wheel controls on my SE to cycle through stations and adjust volume, so the knobs are largely extraneous for me.
Another interesting and all too typical thing is that she reviewed an LE, perhaps the most boring, vanilla version of a Camry one can rent (complete with its hideously ugly plastic hub caps - sorry if I offend LE drivers, but it is ugly and bland). And, also par for the course, she talked about the vague steering (as if the Camry is the only car so afflicted with electronic steering) and the "floaty" ride.
I don't know about the steering, since I drive an SE and it has plenty of heft (relatively speaking), but I do know about the ride from many taxi rides where I live (the preferred taxi of choice is the Camry LE Hybrid). And, the ride is anything but floaty. In fact, I wish this generation of Camry had more of the "float" of previous generations - at least as a taxi passenger. I see little difference between the LE's and SE's rides in the 7th generation; both are pretty firm as far as I'm concerned.
Camry drivers should simply get used to the idea that people hate the car irrationally. I used to be one of those dismissive people myself (though I think I had legitimate reasons to dislike ... like the floaty ride of old, the crummy build quality of the Generation 4 and 6 cars, etc.) But, then I drove a 2012 SE opposite its competition and it clearly won ... that's why I own an SE.
I've long since gotten over any anti-Camry bias I used to have, particularly in a world where companies like BMW no longer sell cars with manual transmissions. AFAIK, the idea of exciting and an automatic or CVT transmission is mutually exclusive. And, there's nothing any more invigorating about driving a BMW with an 8-speed automatic than a Camry with a 6-speed automatic. Numbing the driving senses is numbing the driving senses, no matter how much status-conscious people may fool themselves with the badges on their cars.
And finally, do you really think that anyone who drives a Mitsubishi should be critiquing any other car about anything?
