Am I the only one not liking this? I’m not planning on buying one, but I’m a car guy, so I’m really into car, and I’m a Toyota person. Why are they making the new Camry hybrid and CVT only? I’ve heard CVT’s aren’t as good as traditional transmissions.

  • Objective_Culture412@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    At the end of the day your gripe is with one boring automatic Toyota to another. If you care about shifting gears buy a manual. The only reason it sounds odd is because youve spent your whole life in trad automatics. You still have choice.

  • randomuser914@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    The eCVTs are extremely reliable and more fuel efficient. As to the Hybrid part, Toyota is spending billions investing in battery manufacturing and battery research to prepare for EVs. Might as well streamline the production on the more advanced model that is also going to retain its value much better.

    • MagicDartProductions@alien.topBEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Toyota is going about it in what I think is the best way. We need to ease into EVs more than they’re trying to right now. The tech still just isn’t there. For a while HEV and PHEV are going to be the go to until either charging tech or battery tech catches up.

      My “conspiracy theory”, if you can call it that, will be Toyota going hybrid but instead of a gas or diesel engine they’ll further refine hydrogen and use it as the fuel of choice if they can get enough momentum behind it.

      Thanks for coming to my TED talk.

  • Guyperson66@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    You have the choice to not buy either versions. If all you care about is your car being a gas guzzler you can choose from multiple other brands.

  • CayenneHybridSE@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    The eCVT is totally fine. Nissan ruined the CVT name but Toyotas works very well and is super efficient. In a car like the Camry I think it’s a smarter idea to go with that transmission, it isn’t exactly meant to be a sports car

  • IllStickToTheShadows@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Yeah their decision to force a cvt and hybrid on people makes me not want to buy. We need a reliable daily driver, so I guess we will look at a Lexus es or a current Camry because I don’t want a hybrid cvt

  • Sweet-Sale-7303@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    The ecvt is nothing like the regular cvt. I think they should call it something else to stop people from associating the two . I have a RAV4 hybrid and when in normal or sport mode I feel it’s giving me all the power in those modes instantly . I don’t feel hampered by the transmission at all.

    Heck I think the tires can’t handle the torque of the rear motor mlactually.

  • WinthropH@alien.top
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    1 year ago

    They REALLY need to change the name of the ecvt. The ecvt is nothing at all like regular cvts. The ecvt uses a planetary gear system, nothing at all like a regular CVT.

    Having said that, I’m kinda bummed it’s gonna be all hybrid.

  • bLu_18@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Toyota used eCVT for hybrids and only considered a CVT by name; it is not the traditional CVT that is known to fail. It is only a planetary gear set, which is very reliable.

    • king24_@alien.topOPBEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Didn’t say I was buying it dummy. What if I was planning on buying it. A person can be a “car guy or car woman” and buy what they can afford. Take that elitist bullshit somewhere else.

  • CityOfZion@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    You heard wrong. CVTs are not inferior and to be honest they are the obvious choice going forward as they actually have less moving parts and smoother shifting. The CVT hate mostly comes from disinformation from the ignorant who insist that any CVT is likely to fail based on the fact that Nissan once had a problem with a specific production run around 10 years ago from Jatco that was defective. Truth, there is nothing wrong with CVT technology , nothing wrong with Nissan transmissions and specifically the eCVT from Toyota is EXCELLENT in that it has all the benefits of a normal CVT plus improvements. To summarize, CVT bashing comes from people who don’t know what their talking about.