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  DO NOT BUY 2016 CAMRY LE - 2016 Toyota Camry
  By G. G. Jayasinghe - May 4 - 1:14 pm

  Do not buy this [non-permissible content removed] car! I used drive 2012 Camry and I had it for 3 years. I never had issues with it and I loved it. I just had an accident couple of weeks ago. Our family needed a car so bad that we decided to buy a new car. The dealership kind of tricked us. They knew our situation and made us lease this crappy 2016 Camry LE. They never asked us to test drive the vehicle, it was around 6.30pm at night, they knew our situation and we trusted Camrys. They used our situation to sell this crappy car to us. We ended up with this hideous looking car that makes me feel like Im driving a piece of plastic. More importantly, there is a distortion in the windshield, mirror buttons arent working properly, and the car stereo jams when I put mirror heaters. And the sound quality is nothing like what we had in 2012 Camry. 2016 Camry is not only cheap looking, its CHEAP QUALITY. Do not buy or lease this crap! We are in a big mess trying to get out of the lease we signed. We only drove this car for a week and totally disappointed in Toyota and Camrys! We no longer have the same trust for Camrys! If anybody wants to buy 2016 Camry, test drive it, and look carefully all the features and functionality. But I still dont recommend buying this car! I dont understand what they have really improved in this car compared to 2012 Camry LE. 2012 Camry LE had a much better, classy look I would say. Camry doesnt have the same look anymore, it looks like cheap version of Corolla.

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  Same car. Why buy new? - 2016 Toyota Camry
  By Alexander - April 1 - 11:43 am

  Shoppers should know about... Camry has no power. Take it to the highway and you will see. I didnt... Transmission shifts too fast and... there is no power. Lost between the gears. My combined MPG is showing 13.5 MPG. Not sure how to reset it. Interior: old dash from the European version. Hate transmission sifter.

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  Almost awesome - 2016 Toyota Camry
  By Richard Moller - March 24 - 11:55 pm

  Japanese car makers understand that a person will drive their car, and they usually engineer their cars to make all controls easily accessible. Sit in an American car, and you have to reach for often used controls--like radio knobs. (I recently rented an American car and I had to stop the car to find the headlight switch--it was hidden by the steering wheel and could not be seen while driving!) The 2016 Camry I just purchased is mostly driver friendly, but I am not happy to report that I must reach for the radio tuning button. (There may be a seek button on the graphics display which I will eventually find, but I prefer to use the manual knob and keep my eyes on the road when I am on a long trip and need to find for a new station when the previous station begins to fade out of range.) I am also disappointed that the 2016 models all have black as their primary interior color. I live in Houston, where black is a terrible car interior color during most of the year. (Mine has a partial ash-grey interior color, and I must say--is a GREAT two-tone look. But I really wish they offered a tan interior, with comparable exterior color, as a color option.) One last note, and this may apply to all new cars, since they use computers to regulate gas combustion: it can take quite a while before you see true MPG readings after purchasing a new car. It takes a combination of city and highway driving before the computer has enough info to regulate the engine properly. In my case, it was about at the 450-mile mark, almost one month after I bought the car. Before that, I was seeing 18-19 MPG highway or city. I am now approaching 24 MPG and expect it to get a little better the more I drive the car. So far, I am very happy with my purchase. But between the lack of color choices and having to reach for controls, I am worried that Toyota is getting sloppy with their car design.

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  I hate the Stereo, but I do love the car - 2016 Toyota Camry
  By Iris - February 21 - 8:33 pm

  I love my car but I hate the "premium" audio. I cant hear speakers in the back. In my opinion the fade control doesnt work properly. By the time you get the fade far enough to the back to hear anything, the front speakers become mute. Everyone that I have demonstrated the stereo to, all agree that its sound output is weak. I wish I did not pay more money for this substandard upgrade (which wasn’t cheap). If I had not paid extra for a "premium" sound system, I could almost understand, however I paid more money for a premium sound system and this is unacceptable. I went to professional car stereo installers (one of whom sells and installs JBL systems) to see if they had suggestions. They agreed that the stereo sound is substandard. They said that there was no way to increase the sound output or reconfigure the existing system. They estimated a minimum $1,000 complete system swap out. The 2nd car stereo specialist that I went to said exactly the same thing. I wouldnt be so upset if I had gone with the standard, basic system, but Toyota claimed that this is a "premium" upgrade and turns out that it is actually substandard in comparison to a basic system. I paid too much for this upgrade and I am deeply discouraged by this and even though the car is wonderful, every time I get in the car to drive it, it upsets me that this is what I paid for.

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  2017 SE - 2016 Toyota Camry
  By glideslope - February 13 - 5:03 pm

  This is my first Toyota since my first Accord in 2000. I sold my 2012 Accord. My wife has had RAV4s in the 4.2, 4.3, and 4.4 generations. She loves them. I really wanted a new Accord. I was looking at the 2017 Sport. Not the Sport SE. No matter how many times I drove a 2016 I simply could not deal with the CVT. Now to be honest, there were traits the Accord had that I really preferred. Specifically handling and front seat comfort. However, my SE while no sport oriented midsize sedan is very satisfying. I only have 1,200 miles on it but as my wifes RAVs have been, I have not noticed a single manufacturing issue. The interior IMO is no louder than an Accord. My SE has the lousy Bridgestone Turanza 400s and they account for 75% of any road noise. So, Im really liking this purchase. Its plenty quick enough for me. Has very strong brakes IMO, and can easily maneuver in any situation I might find myself in. I expect it to be bulletproof as 98% of Camrys are, and It was $2,800 less that the Base Accord Sport CVT would have cost me. Highly recommended.

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  $35k rattle trap - 2016 Toyota Camry
  By Rt trask - January 28 - 12:02 am

  Supremely disappointed: rattles, cracking noises at less than 1k miles. Numerous trips to dealer to get these fixed. Still have sharp cracking noise from driver door area that happens to me every day but dealer claims they can not reproduce. Have escalated to Toyota but they just gave me the bureaucratic shuffle back to the dealer. Am looking to dump this pos asap.

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  Road /wind noise Camry 2015 - 2016 Toyota Camry
  By JamesPO - September 21 - 11:02 am

  The road noise consumers complain about is not due to tire noise as many think even though it seems that it is the tires. The noise and pitch of the sound is Conductive Road Viberation. ( It sounds as if it due to the tires when you drive over different pavement) The vehicle is tightly constructed. The noise/viberation is coming up from the road, through the wheels, through the struts and into the Cabin. To lower the pitch of this sound and improve quietness you have to interupt this viberation. You can do this by opening the hood and putting sound deading material such as "Road Kill" over the top of the strut housing. You can do this on the front and on the rear ones in the trunk. Do not do this on you lease car as you dont own it. As to the wind noise , I think it is due to thin glass. Please dont let someone sell you the idea that on these cars that your tires are the noise problem especially if they are mechelins. However if they are Bridgestone you can expect a bumpy harsh ride. Just dont buy one with Bridgestones

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  Good car for the value - 2016 Toyota Camry
  By Lorie C. - September 21 - 8:34 am

  Im writing this because I used edmunds to help to educate me, although it was my BIL who in the end still made a better deal for me. Just paying back. Most important tip is, if you have somebody good at bargaining by all means use them and let them be generous to you. Im picky on things like blind spot monitor, navigation, lane departure warning, collision warning, moon roof, cup holders, how the space next to my shift stick is divided and arranged, space for my keys and phone, storage space in the front, glove compartment isnt lame, seat width and comfort, ease of shifting gears, audio quality, colors interior and exterior, steering wheel turning facility, road handling, performance, both back seats flip down, baby seat anchors, keyless entry, push start up, ease of opening back trunk if my hands are full, automatic touch lock, smart key so I dont lock my keys inside, etc. After reviewing all of the above, comparing and test driving this cars equivalents at 6 other popular similar level brands, duplicate dealerships, and even casually checking out 4 luxury brands for fun, I chose this one. If I had another $10K, I would take a Lexus.

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  2016 CAMRY CLEARANCE PURCHASE - 2016 Toyota Camry
  By Bonnie Konjevich - August 17 - 10:52 am

  Better MADE AND SAFER than my 8 YR OLD Honda Civic

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  Great car, but horrid infotainment system - 2016 Toyota Camry
  By Sad about infotainment - August 16 - 5:39 pm

  I like everything about the car except the infotainment system and the auto-temp control. The infotainment system appears to have been designed by different groups that didnt bother to share design ideas. If you you play a CD, you get one interface, play music via bluetooth, you get a very different interface and if you play music via a flash drive in the USB port, you get yet another interface. To make things worse, if your flash drive happens to have 60+gb worth of music, the infotainment system takes forever to index the music and invariably forgets what is knew only seconds before and has to reindex it yet again. With any other music interface, if you are playing an album and select repeat, it will repeat the entire album. If you only have one song selected and select repeat, it will only repeat the song. With the Toyota, selecting repeat will only repeat the song selected. You cant have it repeat all songs that you are currently playing. Also, if you have a number of songs that it is playing randomly, if it happens to randomly play the last song in the list (even if it is only the first or second song out of 100), it will frequently drop out of the large list of yet unplayed songs and start at the top of the root list of artists and play their music. If you have the thermostat set to auto for temp control, it will not let you control if the upper/lower fans are turned on. For instance, it was sunny and hot outside. I set the temp to 72 degrees F when I got into the car. It quickly cranked up the air conditioning and fans (as desired). However, once it had cooled the car off inside, it turned off the top fan and only kept the fan turned on for my feet. So I end up with nice and cool feet, but with the sun on me and the top fan completely off, I was still rather hot. I ended up having to give up on the auto temp control. its ok when it is cold outside, but worthless if it is hot.