2025 Toyota Camry Hybrid - Night Drive Review

#Toyota #camry #hybrid #afterdark

What's it like driving the best-selling #sedan in #america ? The #toyotacamry has gone full hybrid for 2025 with a boat load of new features and styling. Here's my first impressions at #night

The Toyota Camry has dominated the best-selling sedan category for 22 years in the U.S. due to its striking good looks, quality, and dependability. The new 2025 Toyota Camry continues to build on that success by going exclusively hybrid and combining an athletic exterior style, a new interior design and impressive technology features.

Industry-leading hybrid technology has become synonymous with the Toyota brand and the ninth-generation Camry brings its A-game. The 2025 Toyota Camry pairs the fifth-generation Toyota Hybrid System (THS 5) with a 2.5-liter, 4-cylinder engine and has a standard 225 net-combined horsepower on Front-Wheel Drive (FWD) and 232 HP on Electronic On-Demand All-Wheel Drive (AWD) equipped models. The Toyota Camry also has great fuel efficiency with a manufacturer-estimated combined 51 MPG rating on the LE FWD grade.

The Toyota Camry, for the first time on a hybrid, offers available Electronic On-Demand All-Wheel Drive (AWD) across all four grades: LE, SE, XLE and XSE. With a dedicated rear electric motor, the AWD system supplies power to the rear wheels for additional traction when needed, either in adverse weather conditions, accelerating from a stop or during dynamic driving around curves.

The 2025 Toyota Camrys are expected to arrive at Toyota dealerships in late spring 2024 with a starting Manufacturer’s Suggested Retail Price (MSRP) of $28,400* – over $400 less than the outgoing Camry Hybrid base grade and includes more standard features.

00:00 - Exterior Lighting
02:12 - Interior Lighting
07:36 - 0-60 mph / Acceleration
09:26 - Night Driving Impressions

[atmartens]

The number of people who drive at night without their headlights on because they think their DRL are the headlights is only going to continue going up. 😂

[veitjacob]

Best bang for the buck car right now. Impressive!

[netbucks]

5 in the morning! Thats dedication! 0-60 runs on Vanderbilt Beach Rd! The restaurant in that parking lot, Angelos Grill is fantastic! The best "diner" in Naples. I've never seen a night time auto review--brilliant! The planet you saw is Venus.

[DRBG]

Yes, crank out more Camry videos! LOL I'm making the move from my 21 Rogue to this 2025 Camry, looking at the XLE through the Costco Auto program. I had an issue w my Rogue and Nissan gave me the Ariya for a week. Returned it back because my area is not equipped for EVs, and my dog is too big for the back seat LOL They issued me the 2024 Rogue and it's buzzier than the 2021. Can't wait to get back into a reliable Toyota hybrid! Thanks as always, Kirk!

[NawMan]

The Camry just took the Accords lunch. PERIOD

[InvestBetter.]

You can make the argument that the 2025 Camry LE, with 225 HP, 50+ MPG, all the modern safety tech, and the room and reputation of a Camry, on sale for under $30k, is the best new car deal on the market today

[kjwong]

New Camry looks awesome. If I didn’t have a Prius I’d buy a XSE without a doubt

[notsodelusional]

Kirk, you earned yourself a nap in the afternoon. Thanks for the night time review!

[MRDDev]

Interesting that Toyota managed to make its family econo car look sexier than any of their Lexus counterparts.

[jeretso]

I stepped into an Uber once with foot lights in the back when the door was open. When the floor is black the foot lights are very convenient for not leaving stuff behind.

[AP_allday]

Reservoir blue looks amazing at night! Good review

[truthaboutlife]

TOYOTA Camry is the #1 midsize car in the world.

[christiancc]

This is the exact video I was waiting for since the 2025 came out

[karimelby]

This is a masterpiece of a car. Maybe Toyota’s best car. 1:11

[rightlanehog]

Kirk, Day or night, the Camry LE AWD is the one to get for those who can get it. 😉

[gregjones]

Kirk is the type of guy who will get up early before the sun comes up to do a "night" review

[MediumBluWonder]

Excellent Review Kirk! I think the new Camry looks great albeit coming across more of a heavy but welcome refresh than a redesign. I'm seeing them in traffic out in NM now & even my coworker who just got hers loves it.

While I mourn the death of the V6 but just like the 9th gen accord, automakers are going for what sells best, and this will sell.
Enthusiasts will unfortunately have to look elsewhere, espeically with this being either slower than or just as slow as the new Crown Signia.

[joshua]

I did get the illuminated door sills that read Camry on the options list for $359

[shawn]

Can you compare this Camry to the Lexus es300h please?!

[TheLifetraveler]

Sometimes you have to get mileage accumulation on the vehicle before you notice the improvement in mileage per gallon.. I rented a brand new Honda Accord sport from Avis with only 4 me on it when I got it. The mileage I achieved was only 35 to 38 and I was disappointed. But a month later I rented another new Honda Accord sport that had 12, 000 mi on it, and it consistently gave me 46 to 48 mi per gallon. So obviously in Toyotas case the engine needs to get a few miles on it loosen up, before you see optimum mileage per gallon.