Toyota Motor Sales (TMS), USA on Tuesday (2 July) said it had sold 10m units of the Camry, America’s top-selling car for the past 11 years, and accounting for almost a fifth of all the vehicles Toyota has sold in the US since volume sales began with the Tiara back in 1963.
This milestone comes the same year the nameplate celebrates its 30 year anniversary in the US. It was also the first Toyota car model assembled in the US after the Kentucky factory opened in May 1988, building the 1989 model.
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The first generation Camry, one of Toyota’s first front-drive cars, was introduced to the US in 1983, imported from Japan. In its first full year of sales, TMS sold 52,651. Three decades later, 773 of those cars are still in operation.
In October 2006, the first Camry hybrid was produced.
TMS said about 6.4m of those 10m Camrys are on US roads.
Over the years, some have been exported, notably wagon versions produced in the 1990s, shipped to the UK, Europe and Japan. Asia-Pacific markets were supplied by Toyota Australia.
JD Power and Associates ranked the current Camry top in the midsize passenger car segment in its 2013 Initial Quality Study (IQS).
That Camry is also the ‘most American made car’ with 75% of its content sourced domestically, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).
Virtually all Camrys sold in the US are produced there in both Kentucky and, under contract, by the Subaru plant in Indiana.
