Currently, many automakers involved with the American car market are further distancing themselves from the passenger car sector or at least reinventing them with new body styles and a new lease of EV lifestyle.
Ford has only been selling the Ford Mustang nameplate for a while already, and they are hedging all bets – both on the street and in motorsport – on the all-new S650 iteration. Chrysler is but a shadow of its former self with the 300 sedan on life support, and Dodge will soon discontinue the 2023 Challenger and Charger nameplates to make way for the new EV era.
As for Chevrolet, the passenger car nameplates are getting thinner, with only the Malibu and Corvette safe from dread and sorrow – while the Camaro is ungraciously bowing out of its ICE-powered existence due to the low sales of the sixth generation. However, the Asian automakers don't want to hear anything about dropping the passenger car banner from their range.
Especially their most prominent representative – Toyota – is keen on offering a wide selection of cars, starting with the Corolla family, continuing with the 2023 Prius and Prius Prime, GR models, the best-selling Camry, and wrapping up with the Mirai fuel cell oddity or the big 2024 Sienna people hauler. Of course, the sales are propped by the most affordable and beloved nameplates – Corolla and Camry.
The former has been given lots of new stuff to be proud of, including the entire Nightshade range, the GR Corolla Circuit Edition, and the Corolla Hybrid option. Meanwhile, the latter was only subtly upgraded for the 2024 model year period – thus signaling that a lot could happen with the 2025 model year instead. And, according to the rumor mill, we need to brace ourselves for the potential introduction of the all-new XV80 ninth generation of the global Camry model.
Naturally, that piece of juicy information is like nectar for the imaginative realm of digital car content creators. The good folks over at the Q Cars channel on YouTube are the latest to join in on the rumor party, who aim to daze and amaze the audience with the potential styling of their vision for the next-gen Camry four-door sedan.
As this is Toyota that we are talking about and one of its most crucial car nameplates in history, not even the parallel universes of vehicular CGI can accept an outrageous styling revolution. As such, the channel's resident pixel master – most likely aided by some AI design software – cooked up a few unofficial versions of the potentially new 2025 Toyota Camry with lots of respect toward the current model and what is happening in the Japanese carmaker's model range.
So, this hypothetical Toyota Camry four-door sedan is unofficially borrowing various design cues from the latest models, such as the Crown crossover-sedan or the 2023 Prius 'Hybrid Reborn' – albeit all of them are watered down to make sure that no traditional Camry buyer will feel the need to run amock crying their undying outrage at the sight of this prospective digital project.
Aurel has aimed high all his life (literally, at 16 he was flying gliders all by himself) so in 2006 he switched careers and got hired as a writer at his favorite magazine. Since then, his work has been published both by print and online outlets, most recently right here, on autoevolution. Full profile
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