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All-Hybrid 2025 Camry Starts Under $30,000

Among the 10 best-selling vehicles in America last year, there was exactly one sedan. It’s the one you think: the Toyota Camry. It has been America’s best-selling car almost every year since the late 1990s.

The Camry will be entirely new for 2025 — fully redesigned and, for the first time, hybrid only. Toyota unveiled the ninth-generation Camry last November. As you might expect, the automaker hasn’t radically rethought what’s worked for so long. But it has leaned into what it’s good at.

The 2025 Camry is available in front- or all-wheel drive (FWD or AWD). FWD models get 225 horsepower from a 2.5-liter 4-cylinder engine with two electric motors. The AWD models get 232. And, a pleasant surprise, you don’t have to buy the most expensive trim level to get the added grip. Even the base LE model is available with power to all four wheels.

There’s no V6 option anymore. But our Lyn Woodward got some time behind the wheel and says the new Camry doesn’t need one. The instant torque an electric motor adds “makes it feel like this is a much more powerful engine than it is,” she reports.

An evolutionary look makes it obviously a Camry but borrows the mechanical grin of the 2024 Prius as if hinting at the partially electric power within.

Base models get a 7-inch driver’s instrument screen and an 8-inch digital touchscreen. Higher trims upgrade both to 12.3 inches. Wireless Apple CarPlay and Android Auto are standard, as is Qi wireless device charging.

Sporty XSE models get interesting interior colors — black with blue-lined seat perforations or Cockpit Red.

2025 Toyota Camry Pricing

Taking advantage of the economies of scale means that the more of something you build, the less it costs to build each one. As Toyota steadily becomes “the hybrid company,” offering a hybrid option for nearly every vehicle it builds and making many hybrid-only vehicles, it’s starting to bring hybrid prices in line with gas-only prices at rival automakers.

The 2025 Camry starts under $30,000, even with the mandatory $1,095 delivery fee. That makes a hybrid Camry competitive with a gas-only Honda Accord or Hyundai Sonata.

Trim Level MSRP + $1,095 Destination Fee
LE front-wheel drive (FWD) $29,495
LE all-wheel drive (AWD) $31,020
SE FWD $31,795
SE AWD $33,320
XLE FWD $34,495
XLE AWD $36,020
XSE FWD $35,695
XSE AWD $37,220

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