When TTAC’s Mike Solowiow tested the Camry SE V-6, he didn’t spare the rod or spoil the child:
“…in situations where steering feel warns of problems (hydroplaning, ice, collision avoidance) the Camry SE gives lifeless to the point of useless. Beating at the steering column with a wiffle bat and screaming like Yvette Fielding in ‘Most Haunted’ are more entertaining than trying to make the Camry hustle. It doesn’t move, flow, or have chassis alacrity all its rivals exhibit.”
If the V-6 is that bad, the 178-horsepower four-cylinder must be terrible, right? I mean, if I took it to a racetrack and tooled it around in the advanced-driver groups with a bunch of people in it, we’d be miserable right? We’d never pass anybody, right? We’d never toss that bee-otch out of the Carousel with hands off the wheel and let it snake-oscillate up the hill running past the curbs in the dirt and putting that big-bird chrome grill right up the tailpipe of a Spec Miata, right?
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bball40dtw - Neither have I, just an ad I saw in the paper. $299 isn’t bad though.
bball40dtw - I agree with you Tim. Funny you bring up Spotify…. MFT ruins Spotify and Rhapsody. Over Memorial Day, when my father-in-law was trying to play his Rhapsody...
ajla - I haven’t actually shopped them, I’m just going off the BMW website.
Alex L. Dykes - Yep, this is what my GMC Envoy does when you pop it into AWD mode. It makes for some very strange road manners.
Power6 - I like how the Audi R8 has the same AWD type as my friend’s Westy Syncro…
corntrollio - Yes, most of the transverse systems are reactive rather than proactive. When the front wheels slip, then the coupling or...
mktimes5 - Wasn’t the focus se reviewed here and received high praises for nice interior and good stick shift? So the ST is is just sorta ok and not really tolerable...
Alex L. Dykes - The claim by Acura is that because the rear wheels in SH-AWD (all current systems now since the RL is dead) is...
Timothy - Agree – it’s going to be pretty rare here as well. It’s a special car for a special buyer and that is what I like about it. The clock think almost...
Power6 - You make the best point of all. For most people none of it matters. Even a 3 open diff AWD system with good tires and brake...