Topic: Greatest Car Ever - Hire's 1995 Camry V6 LE Sport

[TheHire]

Here's what you'd call a true survivor, or a Revelations-style find. This is a one-owner, 1995 Toyota Camry V6 LE Sport, in all its beige-ness. It has just over 100,000 miles on it, and has Rust Check stickers every year from 1998 to 2015, until it was put into occasional use duty. Has 2020-date coded Yokohamas on it, a new OEM power antenna, and EVERYTHING WORKS. I have the original window sticker and owner's manual package.

A good friend had been the caretaker of this thing since 2020 and has taken brilliant care of it. The V6 LE Sport is equivalent to the American "SE", which Canada didn't get. It means it's essentially fully loaded, deleting the leather for heated cloth "sport seats". It also gets unique sport suspension with bigger sway bar, "Sport" alloys, and a rear spoiler.

I feel like the beige on beige kind of makes it meme-worthy, and it drives beautifully. ZERO rust, and the underside is perfect. I don't know what I'm going to do with it yet, but if I find it really gets no use, it'll go onto BaT or Cars and Bids, where it'll inevitably find an owner that will preserve it. It's on plates that had a last sticker in Nov '96 as well for maximum autistic points...

This'll probably go to Oblivion this year and be parked beside the Diablo, and possibly even Radwood Detroit.

[Angry Chicken]

I had a black one with a grey interior. Mine was an ultra rare 5 speed MT. Loved that thing and the engine was both powerful (185 HP was a big thing back then) and silky smooth. It sounded beautiful, too, with a V6 burble un-squelched by turbos or an AT.

[PJungnitsch]

Feels weird to say this about a beige Camry, but that's a really nicely styled car

[Seafoam]

 The proof that it is in the condition it is,is on the windshield.

[rrocket]

Totally dig it!

What's a Camry in this shape worth in the current market?

[draghon]

Wow, a true time capsule!

[Great_Big_Abyss]

Makes me feel good about Rust Checking Mazda every year...  That car is clean. 

I wonder why such low mileage, though....

[2JDM]

My dad had a '96 LE 4cyl, same colour combo. These things are indestructible, peak late 90s Toyota.

[quadzilla]

Very nice

That is a great car.  Almost bought something similar, V6 + manual + sunroof.

[TheHire]

What's a Camry in this shape worth in the current market?

Who knows? People LOVE it, but not sure who'd pony up for it. I'd want in the $10K CAD region given how perfect it is...

[revalations]

Simply awesome in every way.  That car will run another 20 years with little fuss. The styling that was labeled as bland back then has held up well. I love it!

[Fobroader]

That thing is freaking beautiful!! Nice find

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[rrocket]

What's a Camry in this shape worth in the current market?

Who knows? People LOVE it, but not sure who'd pony up for it. I'd want in the $10K CAD region given how perfect it is...

A $10k car that will last forever?

Sounds like a deal.

[Firm]

This is a cool find, the Rust Check stickers do it for me, lol. These things were soooo common growing up in Mississauga, and when I was working in the shop (2007-2010) I worked on a lot of these. Our neighbor had one growing up too, same color and about the same year as it had those face lifted tail lights.
Most are long gone up north, but down here in the south there's still quite a few of these running around. Extremely reliable cars.

[Dante]

Funny how people, myself included, get excited over a 30 years old beige Camry of all things....
Great example of automotive history though... Reminder of the times when the Japanese cars were built with one and only one objective in mind: reliability.

[warp]

In it's great rivalry with Honda Accord for holding on to the title as the best selling car in the US for this & the next generation, the Camry stood out for a very compliant & hushed ride vs the Accord of those generations where the emphasis was on sportiness and handling and as such a much harder ride and far less insulation allowing road & wind noise into the cabin. I think a lot of lessons Toyota learnt in vehicle refinement in launching the Lexus brand were applied to these generations of the Camry. 

[ktm525]

My dad had a '96 LE 4cyl, same colour combo. These things are indestructible, peak late 90s Toyota.

I would say peak mid 90s. By the 98/99 the accountants had started to take over.

[2JDM]

What's a Camry in this shape worth in the current market?

Who knows? People LOVE it, but not sure who'd pony up for it. I'd want in the $10K CAD region given how perfect it is...

I think if it was a more desirable colour (i.e. not beige on beige), you could get $10k CAD easily.

[TheHire]

What's a Camry in this shape worth in the current market?

Who knows? People LOVE it, but not sure who'd pony up for it. I'd want in the $10K CAD region given how perfect it is...

I think if it was a more desirable colour (i.e. not beige on beige), you could get $10k CAD easily.

Personally, my ideal colour combos on this thing would be the dark green/tan leather, black/tan leather, or even the cherry red/tan leather. I usually don't like light interiors but I think it goes well with this car.

[ktm525]

IMO a Camry should come no other way but beige on beige.