2005 Toyota Camry LE from North America - Comments

Okay, enjoy your Buick Skylark or Oldsmobile Achieva from the 90's.

Having driven a Camry and a Fusion, I can assure you, Ford DID NOT try to "copy the way Camry drives". If it had, the huge numbers of people flocking to buy the Fusion would NOT be buying them. The Fusion drives like a $40,000 European sports sedan. The Camry drives like a granny-mobile. To compare a Camry to the solid, reliable and infinitely better handling Fusion is laughable. I guess that's why in our area 90% of all Camrys are purchased by elderly people.

So 4 out of 425,000 units are lemons? Not bad shall I see.

What gets me is people that criticize an entire manufacturer and yet comment that they cannot afford the higher end models as they indicate in the same paragraph. I can afford a Camry and have driven a co workers and was glad I drive a higher end domestic with better performance handling and enjoyment to drive. I would suffer a little resale on a Toyota even it it possessed any of these elements.

Yeah...Ford sells 1 million Tempos a year and 5 million Tauruses a year. They are by far the best selling car in the world and may I add kingdom come...

YEAH RIGHT! Maybe the Ford F-series, but nothing else. I like the Ford Econoline, but you cannot market it as a family sedan unless you think the club wagon is a family sedan. I should probably add that in every model range of an Accord or Camry they have at least a million on the road. There are probably 2 million or more 2002-2006 Camry's on the road... You cannot brush those facts away.

I went from Toyota to Honda/Acura and now GM. If you are going to rant and rave how great a Camry is at least upgrade to an Acura. They are much better equipped and excellent performers. Later you can upgrade to GM top of the line models and not be in the shop as frequently with any of the aforementioned models.