Regarding the Toyota Camry car, many riders are no strangers. At a time when the sedan market, especially the mid-level sedan market, is increasingly crowded by SUVs, toyota Camry is still gaining momentum and is one of the best-selling mid-range cars in the domestic automotive market.
In addition to selling well, the Toyota Camry's retention rate is really staggering. Big cake has talked about it before, a friend in the second-hand car market has taken a 10-year-old car, and has traveled 100,000 kilometers of second-hand Toyota Camry, the car dealer actually asked for 100,000 yuan. And that is, yesterday, the pie saw an Audi A5 two-door imported coupe of about the same year in the second-hand car market, and the current price of the second-hand car dealer is only 100,000 yuan.
Therefore, in the past, some friends around me commented that the Toyota Camry was not only value preservation, but also a wealth management product.
However, although the retention rate of Toyota Camry used cars is so amazing, the pie still has to pour cold water on the riders who are ready to buy Toyota Camry.
Used Toyota Camry before 2015, it is best not to buy.
Why do you say that? The reason is simple – the lack of critical configurations.
What are the key configurations?
Pie feels that the score is 2 aspects, the first is the security configuration, and the second aspect is the comfort configuration.
First, let's talk about security configuration. For the Japanese car 6 years ago, many old drivers should also have a little impression, which happened to be the era when the reputation of Japanese cars was more embarrassing. As for the reason, everyone should be familiar with it. For the Toyota Camry, it is the lack of airbags and ESP (body electronic stability system).
For the previous Toyota Camry in 2015, the number of airbags in the 2.0 displacement model can be described as stingy, and the ESP is also missing.
So are these two configurations important? Presumably, there is no need to say more, airbags and esp can be said to be the bottom line configuration of car safety. Nowadays, on the entry-level models of less than 100,000, these two configurations are already very rich, and for the Toyota Camry, which has been 200,000 yuan 6 years ago, it is really a bit difficult to say that these configurations are still stingy.
What is more telling is that, for example, the 2013 Toyota Camry, in the top model, not only has a side air curtain and side airbags, but also a rare knee airbag in the mid-level car, and esp is not missing. In the final analysis, it's not that the configuration is not important, nor is it that it can't be matched, but because...
In addition, it is the comfort configuration, the 2015 previous Toyota Camry, 2.0 model actually gave a 4AT gearbox, so the pie is really impossible to think, when bragging about the Japanese car fuel saving Japanese powder, where is the courage? Small cars like the Volkswagen Polo have been popularizing 6AT gearboxes in automatic gearboxes as early as 2006, and it is Aisin's 6AT.
Therefore, the pie is not recommended for the second-hand Toyota Camry before 2015, one is the high price, and the other is the lack of safety configuration. And for the comfort configuration, you say spend a hundred thousand to buy a Toyota Camry used car, to hand or 4AT gearbox, you say that ride and fuel consumption and new cars at the same price point are on a par? And the era gap between the interior control is even greater, the current car is pay attention to a car network, artificial intelligence, and the second-hand Toyota Camry at that time, can have a navigation is good, the key that navigation, now even if it can be used, it is estimated that you will not use. In addition to being able to listen to a song, it is estimated that the second-hand Toyota Camry cannot give you other driving enjoyment.
The Toyota Camry in 2015 and later has a qualitative leap in safety configuration, so it is also an important reason for its sales to continue to strengthen.
However, the big cake feels that whether it is a new car on the Toyota Camry or a second-hand car, the price is always deformed, and perhaps the same price jumps out of the "siege" of Japanese cars, and may have a better choice.
I don't know what you guys think about this?