Vellum Venom Vignette: 2015 Camry Regression Analysis

Sajeev Mehta
by Sajeev Mehta

As expected, TTAC’s Best and Brightest called it: the 2015 Camry has Chernobyl-grade DLO FAIL.

Or maybe that’s heavily tinted glass?

I consider myself lucky I’m not attending the NYIAS, this would make my head go explodey all over the show floor.

No transportation designer, wannabe like me or otherwise, wants to see that gigantizoid of a hunk of black plastic go into production. The years of thankless hard work, the brutal cost of design school on your wallet/social life, etc shouldn’t turn into this.

There was nothing, absolutely nothing wrong with the 2014 Camry’s greenhouse: it was sleek-ish and a completely DLO FAIL free zone before the redesign. It was a beautiful thing. And now it’s gone.

Thanks for reading, I hope you (can still) have a lovely week.

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  • Guy922 Guy922 on Apr 23, 2014

    It is very 1988 Corolla-esque. Why Toyota? The Camry never had that ugly molding on any iteration. Why start now? And why 30 years so late? This is stuff id expect to see on a mid 1980's Corolla. Not a 2015 Camry. Oh gawd......On Toyota's website in shock. Its real! Well, im sorry but this is Camry's equivalent to '96 Taurus. Way to hand over the sales crown Toyota. Hideous. Maybe we complained about the blandness too much but Camry bland wasnt a bad thing....the 2014 Car looked better overall than this frankenstein......

  • Ponchoman49 Ponchoman49 on Apr 30, 2014

    Leave it to Toyota to make each new design look worse than the last.

  • ToolGuy This is the kind of thing you get when you give people faster internet.
  • ToolGuy North America is already the greatest country on the planet, and I have learned to be careful about what I wish for in terms of making changes. I mean, if Greenland wants to buy JDM vehicles, isn't that for the Danes to decide?
  • ToolGuy Once again my home did not catch on fire and my fire extinguisher(s) stayed in the closet, unused. I guess I threw my money away on fire extinguishers.(And by fire extinguishers I mean nuclear missiles.)
  • Carson D The UAW has succeeded in organizing a US VW plant before. There's a reason they don't teach history in the schools any longer. People wouldn't make the same mistakes.
  • B-BodyBuick84 Mitsubishi Pajero Sport of course, a 7 seater, 2.4 turbo-diesel I4 BOF SUV with Super-Select 4WD, centre and rear locking diffs standard of course.
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