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my mind Camry Hybrid hits the sweet spot in the Camry lineup it's got 200 horsepower that's right between the four cell division and the six-cylinder version but it also does 40 miles per gallon average that's better than most cars on the road certainly better than the other Camrys in the lineup now for the 2015 model year Toyota Gaye of the Camry a pretty big update but it carried over all the drivetrain options into this new generation this really has the same gasoline-electric hybrid drivetrain as the previous generation we do get new looks for the car it's got a longer upper cabin area with a really raked back glass and I like the way they integrated the headlights and the grille and I'm really impressed with the amount of light room in the rear seat area because I've got the Entune premium system with navigation as an option in this car I've got a 7-inch touchscreen and what I really like about it is it's really responsive so soon as I touch things things happen pretty quickly when I go to the home screen you're pushing this home button on the side I get a split screen this is right now showing audio on one side navigation in the other I could actually choose what I want in these screens if I hit this apps button then I get to see all the features of this system just arranged by icons and I can reorder these twos this is part of the Intune system that Toyota offers I really like in tune it's one of the better app integration systems available so I have the Entune app running on my iPhone then I get all these apps here I've got open table I've got Pandora being I Heart Radio movie tickets calm Facebook places if I go to navigation and I hit the destination screen so I've got my usual destination input sources I've got manual address entry points of interest but else have this web search button so I hit that and here it shows me Bing and Yelp those are two of my location-based apps with Entune those are enabled by the system on my phone I can actually add other apps in the future I want to see them do that but right now we just have big and Yelp so I hit Yelp and I've got this nice search screen here I can just enter any search term I'm looking for pizza why not I put that in it starts at searching process it's gonna show me all the nearby results on Yelp with pizza that comes up pretty fast I really like that so I hit golden boy Pizza on Green Street here in San Francisco it's it's fun and it's got my rating reviews and I can just check the map location with that right away puts it into navigation then I can say go to golden boy pizza and I've got my directions right there very good system another cool thing in the Toyota Camry Hybrid this is an option in this binnacle here I've got key wireless charging there's a button here I can push to activate it and this is actually an inductive charging pad down here so if I had a phone that had wireless charging either through the case or built into the phone I can just set it down in here it would automatically charge while I'm driving pretty cool feature I don't have to cable to the car or anything and within two and I get everything Wireless under the hood of the Toyota Camry Hybrid we've got a gasoline engine as the 2.5 liter 4-cylinder does 156 horsepower 156 County of torque pretty decent numbers but we also have a hundred and five kilowatt electric motor adding its power for a total of 200 horsepower that's a good amount of power for this car feeding the electric motor is a nickel metal hydride battery pack and it actually reduces the trunk space just a little bit 2.3 cubic feet gets taken out but we still have over 13 cubic feet bath there that's it that's enough for most Costco runs the power from the electric motor and the gas engine gets mixed through a planetary gearset this is something Point has been using forever on these hybrid cars does a fantastic job of seamlessly mixing that power to the front wheels my first couple of trips out in this car I stopped the fuel gauge is broken because it's just pegged at full and actually it's still pegged upon I'm driving let's start quite a bit now well it does have a 17 gallon fuel tank so that's part of it but the other reason is it's getting 40 miles per gallon average even better than that also when I first started driving this car I thought there might be something wrong with it does it it's up a little rub it didn't ride as comfortably as I expected a Camry to ride well then I looked at the spec sheet and I noticed this is the SE model and it's got a sport-tuned suspension and i don't understand that at all there's no reason to do a sport-tuned suspension in a Camry Hybrid because there's nothing really sporty about this car let's price out our 2015 Toyota Camry Hybrid SE base price is $27,995 but to do it up CNET style there's just one package the Intune premium audio with navigation poeta tells me that's optional on the SE trim model but the online car configurator forced me to add it and that's $1,300 along with a $995 sunroof and $75 for the key wireless charging option with the $125 destination fee our total comes to thirty one thousand one hundred and ten dollars I don't understand the logic of having a sport-tuned suspension on a Camry Hybrid so I definitely at the Le or the xle model not this SE model that said the Camry Hybrid is an all-around great car it's got good cabin space good power and in tune F integration is one of the best I've seen and you can't really argue with forty miles per gallon average