Honda Accord, Toyota Camry Will Get Turbo Fours Soon

Aaron Cole
by Aaron Cole

The best-selling mid-size sedans in the United States will catch up to their competition by offering boosted fours under their hoods soon, Automotive News is reporting (via Car & Driver).

The long-running Camry will replace its six-cylinder engine with the turbo four, though the Accord is likely to use a new, smaller, boosted four pot to replace its base four-cylinder engine.

The Camry’s turbo four comes from the newly announced Lexus IS200t and NX200t, which will produce around 235 horsepower (or 241 in the IS200t) and 258 pound-feet of torque. The turbo four would likely replace the 3.5-liter V-6 option at the top of the range for Toyota, which makes 268 horsepower.

Honda’s solution is on the other end of the spectrum. Their 1.5-liter turbo four, borrowed from the new Civic, will likely replace the 2.4-liter naturally aspirated base engine that cranks 184 horsepower. The smaller engine would likely improve upon the 27 mpg city/36 mpg highway rating that the base model has now.

The force-fed Camry and Accord models would join the ranks of mid-size sedans already including smaller displacement, turbocharged engines such as the Ford Fusion, Chevrolet Malibu and Volkswagen Passat.

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  • 319583076 319583076 on Jul 30, 2015

    There really isn't any debate. There are those of us who know how the system works and for what purpose and there are those of you who are remaining willfully ignorant to continue the argument.

  • Stuki Stuki on Jul 30, 2015

    What a bloody waste. Real world, the mileage differences between Hondyota NAs and Euro turbo 4s are virtually nil. Can swing either way, depending on usage. Just like the latest Chevy small block truck engines versus Ford's ecoboost. The only venue where smaller turbos are noticeably better, is they allow for more tuneability, so they can be tuned for higher mileage ratings around a pre-known loop, like the one the EPA uses. Throw random, real world usage at them, and they are not meaningfully better at all. And in some scenarious, they can be made to show worse. But, as always in Progressivestan; simplistic, synthetic, ultimately rather pointless pseudoscientific measures, is what it takes to make well indoctrinated dronelings feel like they are, like, scientificy and, like stuff. So, choice and variety be damned, at the altar of bonehead supported uniformity and dronealicious acronyms like CAFE.

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    • Stuki Stuki on Jul 31, 2015

      @Jacob The problem I was alluding to, is not so much about turbo engines and technology. The added complexity does come with added tuneability, so they can be tuned very tightly to perform a specific task well. Like snailpacing around an EPA test loop. Or produce 1000hp for the duration of a drag race. Or generate enough torque down low to allow extremely tall gearing and still dig it's way out after a minute or 2 of turbo lag... or a bunch of other things. Diesel trucks have been running turbos forever, since efficiency in a narrow rpm and load window (rpm low, load high) is the name of the game there. Instead, the problem is that this narrow range tuneability that allows for "better" performance on an utterly simplistic EPA loop, is being used by the usual dronelings, to effectively render all other alternatives unsaleable. A good mix of turbo gas and diesel, and NA gas; 3, 4,5 6, 8 cylinders, etc., is instead being replaced by a monoculture. Not because it is "the best" for all possible uses, but simply because dumb progressives are, as always, dumb, but thinks that clinging to childish, kinda-sorta sciency sounding metrics somehow makes them sound less so. And, in their own officially sponsored echo chamber of dumb people, it seems it just may.

  • Zip89123 Zip89123 on Jul 30, 2015

    No turbo for me. Thanks, but no thanks Toyoter.

  • Jacob Jacob on Jul 31, 2015

    I hope that Honda's turbo project in consumer space will fare better than the McHonda in the 2015 Formula 1 season (it's been an embarrassment so far, until the Hungarian GP when Alonso suddenly took 5th place.. *progress*) I am sure that by now the Toyota and Honda engineers have taken apart and studied every Ford, Audi, and BMW turbo engine, and they already roughly know what are the weak points and what are the strong points of the current turbo technology, so hopefully they will learn where the others have failed.

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