2025 Toyota Camry Reviews, Pricing & Specs

The Camry’s new look is most obvious from the front, where the redesign has rendered it more cohesive and business-like. It shows echoes of the new Prius and some family resemblance to the Lexus spindle grille, too, though Toyota parlance terms it the “hammerhead front face.” LED headlights and daytime running lights (DRLs) are standard, and while the Camry doesn’t actually have a trendy slim light bar extending across the hood, it looks as though it could.

The profile is much the same, though the rear window surround extends further into the sail panel, helping to emphasize the coupe-like roof. The hood extends a little further forward, now meeting the vertical line of the grille, which makes the Camry look more assertive. The base Camry SE trim gets 16-inch alloy wheels. SE Upgrade and XLE trims get black 18-inch wheels, and the sporty, range-topping XSE gets 19-inch wheels finished in black and grey.

SE and XSE get sporty touches like front air ducts, rear diffusers, sport-mesh grilles, and exposed dual-tip exhausts. The Camry XSE is also available with a two-tone paint job, an extra-cost option that pairs a Midnight Black Metallic roof with one of four exterior colours. These include the new Ocean Gem, which debuts with the new Camry, as well as Wind Chill Pearl, Supersonic Red, and the Heavy Metal colour previously seen on the likes of the GR Corolla. (In total, eight exterior colour options are available in Canada, but the black roof is not offered with the other four.)

The new Camry’s interior is more of a departure from its predecessor, with an entirely new dash layout. We like how the centre touchscreen’s housing flows across the passenger’s side and helps camouflage the vents, and we can imagine that the ridges in the piano black plastic will help minimize the appearance of smudges or dust from any one angle. We don’t care for the quilted Dinamica microfibre in our XLE test car, however. It’s a very light grey colour in our car and found not only on the dash but also inside the door cards—lots of places, in short, that are at risk of attracting spills or accumulating oils from touch over time. Sorry to be graphic, but that’s what it made us think. Fortunately, the microfibre on our otherwise leather seats is limited to small patches on the shoulders, where we can hope it will stay relatively clean.

The base SE trim comes with a mix of cloth and SofTex synthetic leather upholstery. The top Camry XSE and XLE trims come with perforated leather seats in either red, grey, or black, depending on the trim.

Camry shoppers no longer have to choose between hybrid and not. They’re all hybrid. The 2025 Camry is the first sedan to get Toyota’s fifth-generation hybrid system, which combines a 2.5-litre four-cylinder engine with additional power from electric motors. For front-wheel-drive (FWD) Camrys, those motors number two, and the system makes a total of 225 horsepower. For all-wheel-drive (AWD) models, there are three electric motors, and total power output lands at 232 horses. In Canada, the base SE trim is sold with FWD, while AWD is standard on all other models. The AWD system is of particular note: because it’s electronic and not mechanical all-wheel drive, it can provide extra traction with a very minimal impact on fuel economy. In fact, Natural Resources Canada is estimating 5.1 litres per 100 kilometres combined for AWD models with 18-inch wheels and 5.3 L/100 km combined for the XSE, compared with 4.9 L/100 km for the FWD version.

The automaker has developed two distinct suspension tunings for the 2025 Camry. We drove the XLE, which is more comfort-focused, so we did not experience the sport tune of the sport grades. We found that handling-wise, the Camry does feel planted. The hybrid system switches subtly between gas and electric power without jarring transitions, but that is not to say the powertrain is quiet: you do hear it working at higher speeds and when passing others on the highway. The acoustic laminated front side glass of the XLE (also found on the XSE) did limit road and wind noise, but not the sound coming from our own engine.

The braking feel will not give any regen detractors pause. It feels quite normal, just like the brakes in a traditional, gas-only sedan. And there is no need to fuss with regenerative braking settings, nor is there opportunity to do so. Toyota’s hybrid system operates in the background and leaves the driver out of it, with one exception: At speeds under 40 km/h, it’s possible to switch the car into EV mode. Pressing the dedicated button on the centre console will override the computer’s fuel optimization and force it to rely on the battery until it needs the engine or your speed picks up, a great feature for commuters.

Our XLE test car had an eight-way power-adjustable driver’s seat, and a six-way power-adjustable front passenger’s seat, features that are standard on both X grades. In Canada, heated front seats and a heated steering wheel are standard, and ventilated front seats are included with both the XLE and XSE trim levels. Dual-zone climate control and dedicated rear-seat air vents are standard across the board. The 2025 model year marks the first time that a panoramic moonroof will be offered on a hybrid Camry; it’s included on the top two trims.

Front-row legroom and overall headroom are roughly on par with the 2024 Honda Accord Hybrid’s, with back-seat leg room falling behind. The Hyundai Sonata Hybrid—which is on hiatus in Canada as of this writing, but previous model years are still floating around—actually bests both for head room, but it affords significantly less leg room to passengers in the second row. Trunk space for the 2025 Camry measures 428 litres to the Accord’s 473 litres.

The new Camry comes standard with an 8-inch infotainment touchscreen running the Toyota Audio Multimedia system, which includes wireless Apple CarPlay and Android Auto and can manage simultaneous Bluetooth connections with two smartphones. A wireless charging pad is also standard, along with five USB ports. At least for 2025, the Camry offers both USB-A and USB-C charging technology, though only the front-row’s USB-A receptacle transmits data. Higher trims get a 12.3-inch touchscreen, much larger than the 9-inch optional upgrade from the previous generation, and also replace the standard 7-inch digital gauge cluster with a 12.3-inch fully digital driver information display. A 10-inch head-up display is included for XLE and XSE trims, as is a nine-speaker JBL Premium Audio system.

Drive Connect requires an active subscription (once the trial period ends). This adds an Intelligent Assistant voice-recognition system, among other connected services such as real-time traffic updates. We struggled with the voice recognition and never actually got it to complete a command or find a destination for us, though we did see it respond appropriately to another journalist attending the program. Perhaps we mumble.

Blind-spot monitoring and rear cross-traffic alert are included on every 2025 Camry. It also comes standard with the Toyota Safety Sense 3.0 (TSS 3.0) suite of advanced driver-assistance systems. Adaptive cruise control, lane-tracing assist, lane-departure alert with steering assist, and road-sign assist are among the included features. Front cross-traffic alert, lane-change assist, front and rear parking assist with automatic braking, and a panoramic view monitor are equipped on the XLE and XSE grades. It also adds traffic-jam assist, though Drive Connect must be active for that to work.

On our test drive, we were happy with the lane-keeping assist system, which we found to be firm but also deferential. It provided a strong nudge onto the straight and narrow without making us concerned whether we’d be able to override it in circumstances where we were intentionally diverging from the path the computer deemed correct.

The 2025 Camry is too new as of this writing to have completed crash testing with independent safety organizations. However, it’s reasonable to expect strong scores based on the aforementioned technology, Toyota’s reputation, and the Camry’s history in such evaluations. The 2024 Camry earned a Top Safety Pick award from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) in testing which did include both the hybrid and the gas-only variants. It also scored well in frontal crash and rollover resistance tests with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).

In Canada, the 2025 Toyota Camry starts at $37,295, including a $1,830 destination charge and other fees. The top-priced trim is the XSE, which rings up at $47,945, fees in. This means the 2025 model presents a $1,500 increase relative to the 2024 Camry Hybrid’s starting price, and a nearly $4,000 overall base price increase versus the 2024 model as the gas-only powertrain retires. Importantly, though, the all-new 2025 Camry (“Hybrid” no longer needs to be said as it’s assumed) still has a lower starting price in Canada than the 2024 Honda Accord, which does not include hybrid technology at the lower end of its lineup. That’s reserved for higher trims, meaning that a hybrid Accord in the 2024 model year starts at $43,462.

While Camry and Accord tend, historically, to dominate the midsize sedan market, there are of course other competitors to consider. Some of them are quite good, but looking for hybrid power narrows the field considerably. The Hyundai Sonata got a complete makeover just the year before the Camry, though it’s not currently offered with a hybrid powertrain in Canada and AWD is not available. There are plug-in hybrid options to be found in the German luxury ranks, but for affordability purposes, the Camry is primarily up against the Accord, the Sonata, and other Toyota offerings.

In this exclusive group, virtually every competitor is either all-new or recently refreshed. You could argue that the Camry is the newest, or you could argue that it’s finally catching up. Either way, the time had come for a new generation, and we think Toyota accomplished what it wanted to with the new Camry.

Note: Images show a US model.