My fingers wrapped around the steering wheel as I adjusted the seat and the mirrors and settled back. Foot on the brake (which felt just as responsive as a brake on any other car), I reached over and pressed the power button. The dials in front of me stirred to life, but the car didn’t move – there was no thrum of an engine, no revving, nothing. I looked across at my passenger, as if to enquire whether I’d made a mistake, when the petrol engine kicked in, softly. This was the Aussie-built Hybrid Camry, a mid-sized car with the fuel economy of a compact, and I was ready to drive. More »
For the general populace, Australian-made cars come in two categories and two categories only: Ford or Holden. But the simple truth is that probably the most exciting Aussie car* to be released in the past decade comes from neither – it’s a Toyota, and it’s a hybrid. Yesterday the Japanese company officially launched their new Australian-made hybrid Camry. More »
