Thats How this channel was back when this channel is created

Same! Please do more of these classic normal cars!

Seems like now just reviews cars that are sold on his platform, making his opinion less reliable, since he barely says anything bad about the car

Normal old cars* New normal cars are still in the snoozefest zone.

This isn't a normal car it's an icon

Yep, that is what makes a car like this so great, especially for enthusiasts. Have a fun bike/car for the weekends or track days, but commuting to work in rush hour traffic to pay for the fun stuff? A reliable car that will get you from point A to point B and back everytime, with no drama, is a stress reliever. Plus, putting miles on one of these to commute is stress free. Not wasting sticky tires on the daily commute alone is worth the price of buying one for daily use. Plus, after a long day at work, I just want to get home. A reliable, comfortable cruiser is the way to go , IMO. I save the fun stuff for fun times, and use the boring stuff for boring times.

that generation is literally the best car for doing car things like driving forward

It's... beautiful. 😀

Let's face it, most cars a boring. At least the Camry is dependable, comfortable and reliable.

I still see this era of Camry about once a week in Washington DC, and I always have to do a mental double-take: "Damn that car is going on 25 years!" Indestructible.

And also very reliable unlike all the 2020s EV cars.

90's Japanese car interiors* American car interiors were none of those things back then. Try finding a Ford or Chevy that doesn't have a big crack running down the plastic dash. Now days interiors are better in every way, except in reliability because planned obsolescence.

@@BlueOvals24 no 90s american car interiors look pretty cool, also if a crack is the worse thing after 30 years then that doesen't sound so bad, rather have a slightly worse car than a ugly 2020s car

@@BlueOvals24 nah stop the cap, 90s American car interiors were better, ever saw a Buick?

@circleinforthecube5170 If you'd rather be ignorant, sure, a crack isn't an issue. But most people don't want to hear the cheap plastics rubbing and mashing against eachother everywhere they drive. And 2020's cars look far better than the blandness most 90's cars had.

Porsches are fairly reliable, especially compared to the rest of German cars. But yeah, nothing from modern Mercedes, VAG, or Stellantis can touch these old Toyotas when it comes to reliability.

True but imagine what a boring life you would have to lead to put a million miles on a '96 Camry.

Porsche is usually rated among the top for reliability

@@Syitalian25 perhaps, but by 2024 you can actually afford a fun car without getting a loan that you can't afford. Just so the bank or IRS can take it because you got too far behind in payments and property taxes 3 years later.

@@nathanlamont9920 charger and challenger owners are offended

It's part of his contract after selling out

@@rickc303 What contract

Doug IS the guy!

@@rickc303 he signed a contract to praise a 90s Camry? Where can I sign up?

Cars & bids. You can buy this car. Its not a review its advertisment.

My dad had one when I was an infant. In 2003, he hit a deer in the middle of the night. Even thought the car was badly damaged (he was unhurt), the insurance company didn't total it because they knew it would run forever. I bet it's still going strong after it was fixed and sold.

My mother was a camry

❤️❤️

My mom handed me down her 95 she still brings up that I totaled it.

This is all you need. Your SUV or truck is pointlessly huge, dangerous for other road users and pedestrians and bad for the environment. Weight is the problem.

Renault Clio 16V also is very reliable like the 96 Camry.

Sounds like someone needs to do a "Dakar" version of this Camry.

...and they come in white!

​@@woodprivacy3776maybe in 2026 they gonna make the Dakar Rally version of the Camry. Possibly "Camry Dakar Turbo Version"?

Those old school cars were something speacil those 80s and 90s smaller cars ba k than were fun in my opinion

Recently I saw an old lady driving a perfect past generation 4Runner. That is going to make someone very happy when she is done with it.

I love seeing stuff like that, too! Just today, around 9am this morning, I met an elderly couple that still drives a green 1996 Honda Accord wagon, and it is in absolutely perfect condition! Considering they live in central Ohio, I find the condition to be very impressive! As far as I know, they are the original owners and plan on keeping it until they both reach their graves

Last summer I was out with my 8 year old nephew. He spotted a porsche gt3 from across the parking lot. We drove over to see it and he thought it was extremely weird that I was geeking out about the 90s metro hatchback 3 spots down and that I couldn't care less about the gt3. I tired explaining that the metro was way more rare, but he was having none of it. So we checked auto trader. There were 3 gt3s for sale within 10 miles, and not a single metro for sale in the _entire country._ He still didn't care. It didn't have a giant wing.

I'm Swedish so whenever I see a pristine Volvo 140, 240 or especially older Saabs I geek out and often give thumbs up or a compliment.

No sir.. I'm afraid they are. My Y2K has 153k on it. 3 weeks ago.. I had the oil changed, next day I went on a 900 miles road trip. I was 93 miles away from my destination when I heard the motor rattling and clanking. I took the next freeway exit and pulled into an Arco AM\PM. pulled the dipstick and there was NO oil on it. I ended up buying 5 quarts of oil and it just started to show on the stick. The damage had already been done. It did NOT leak from the underside or the filter.. and I never saw any smoke. So where did 5 quarts of oil goto..? I drove 375 miles the first day. put in 12 gallons of gas the next morning and was getting 32 mpg. Later that afternoon.. is when this happened. So $1150 later, I rented a uhaul and tow dolly and took it back home. So, I found a good used motor with 88k on it.. and just got the car back this morning. Runs great again. 24 yr old car. Body and interior are in great shape. so $1200 for the motor and another $1000 to remove and replace the engine. total.. $4200 for the car 3 yrs ago, $3450 for recovery and replacement motor. I PRAY this lasts me 20 yrs. Now I'm planning on going back there to finish what I started by the end of this week.

​@@OFFGRID_Trucker153k miles?

@@OFFGRID_Trucker just because the shop said they changed the oil doesnt mean they actually did. sounds like someone in the shop screwed up. any car is killable if you run it without oil. pretty impressive that it did the best part of 900 miles without oil though.

That’s fantastic news. I am selling my 2007 Mercury Grand Marquis with 230K in order to purchase a 1996 Lexus ES 300 with 112K.

@@nobutternotes 112k is not even broken in lol

Why not the engine btw?

Wow. And I thought my 2017 V6 Accord approaching 300,000miles was cool

To put 548k miles into perspective, that's about 2/3 the diameter of the sun

yeah I don't even give the supercar videos a view, this is what I'm here for, show me the weird and plebeian automotive nuggets

Agreed.

This is all you need. Your SUV or truck is pointlessly huge, dangerous for other road users and pedestrians and bad for the environment. Weight is the problem.

@@julianevans9548 In the interest of honesty a Camry isn’t a substitute for a pickup truck.

Camry is supercar.

Yeah, I cringed a little at that part heh

@@michaeljcurry Yeah- how could such a car guy not know that? Crazy!

Thanks I was thinking the same!

It's actually funny how little Doug knows

Doug is literally clueless when it comes to cars...as in how they actually work, his mechanical and electrical can be easily compared to a schoolgirl.

The 2022 Camry also has the same powertrain and can trim with 438.382 Miles.

I got my 95 Camry for $900. Absolutely adore the car. Has 258,342 miles and climbing rapidly. Best car ever

Doug does leave out vital information a lot of the time.

It seems like to him, a performance upgrade is mainly a power thing.

@@paulie-Gualtieri. And sometimes gets facts completely wrong, especially if it's not a car from the US.

Interesting, competing with the Maxima SE perhaps?

This is all you need. Your SUV or truck is pointlessly huge, dangerous for other road users and pedestrians and bad for the environment. Weight is the problem.

Yeah, he could at least have ... tried it before saying random c*** , a lot of cars had these, it was useful when you wanted to pass someone on the road, an easy "downshift to third", since the cars automatic transmissions back then moved slower than tectonic plates when you pressed the gas. Also, had a cupholder on my 1992 camry LE V6 wagon, it wasn't a new thing.

I came here to say that exact same thing. 👍

That's a whole FACT! "Common man!". It was just a button to down shift. A few hours of flooring it everythime to pass on the high fatigues your leg n back in a low hp 4cyl. It was just to drop a gear with your thumb instead of the gas pedal.

Thats... insane. Why wasn't that just automatic, lol. "No thanks, I don't want to use one of those gears my car came with"

@@androiduberalles In the past, automatic transmissions weren’t assisted electronically as optimally then as as they are now. There are computers to detect what you want to do with the car today by the way you press the gas pedal. That wasn’t the case back then. Leaving the OD button off going up a hill or if you needed an extra bit of engine power gave you the ability to manually control what the car was doing. These buttons, the overdrive and the power buttons, were carryovers from the very first generations. By the time they had reached the 3rd generation, the car already had a high level of electronic sophistication which made it more or less a redundancy and by the 4th, in 1997, they eliminated the power button but the overdrive button held on for awhile. They didn’t get rid of it until the 2007 redesign.

That's no surprise. Any Ford will drive more and be in better condition.

@@pkuneev I used to be a diehard Ford guy. I won't touch thrm with a 10 foot pole now. Toyota is far better.

@@thatcarguy1UZ No toyota is no better. Toyota are low-quality cars at an inflated price. And with a disgusting design.

@@pkuneev then why is it that I see Toyota Camrys from that year and similar years all over the place but I don't see any Ford Tauruses from those years? The last decent Ford built was the crown victoria. The last decent Ford truck built was in 1996. GM is no better and Chrysler makes GM and Ford look like Paragons of quality in comparison. But that's okay, you keep buying those Fords. That leaves more Toyotas for people like me who appreciate quality.

@@pkuneeva ford won’t last 20 drives, a chevy will last 20 years.

Dumb.

He did that all the time in Atlanta. In Philly he would have been shot

Doug is the kind of guy Who Destroying his channel😢

This is all you need. Your SUV or truck is pointlessly huge, dangerous for other road users and pedestrians and bad for the environment. Weight is the problem.

I had one for 500$ bucks lasted a whole year and sold it for 900$

Indeed, it’s just simple and reliable. It’s like having a lab or golden retriever; not fancy, not exotic, but great.

I’ve been daily driving one of these for 3 years and I love it dearly. Most reliable thing in my life and I still have some really good friends 😂

Smooth reliable and good on gas

Thanks man I have one outside ritenow and I am great full and thankful for my Toyota in Jesus Christ Name amen

​@@MannythebestMartinezis McLaren Solus is as reliable as the 1996 Camry?

My dad had the same car, and color as the one in the video. Ran great. Never had problems. He had it until 2005 with 240k on it. Toyota are great. My mom's got a 2014 corrola with 200k on it. Never any problems. Toyota are great.

This is all you need. Your SUV or truck is pointlessly huge, dangerous for other road users and pedestrians and bad for the environment. Weight is the problem.

I agree I wish he’d review a mint condition 2004 TSX or TL

I'd say the refinement these had were over the top , triple door seals, quiet interior it felt like Lexus at a Toyota price. I hear the rear door stamping was very expensive to produce.

In the UK we didn't have the Camry but we did have the Avensis instead. Which was basically the same thing but Europeanised 😂my dad had a early 99 model of the first gen Avensis and it was a boring but brilliant car. Blue with a petrol 1.6 and windy windows just pure reliable no fusses transport. He sold it in 2012 on 160k miles purely because he'd bought a BMW e46 320D. And that e46 gave so many problems 😂😂 actually since that Avensis until his current car (Audi Q3 1.4 tfsi) all the cars he had were very unreliable and he said a few times he wished hed kept the Avensis. Unfortunately we won't be able to own one again because 1. Theyve mostly been scrapped and 2. We live within the ULEZ zone(a £12.50 a day charge for drivers of older petrol and diesel cars)

This was the first time when I realized that Toyota was serious about their bread-and-butter cars. This car was bigger, nicer looking, quieter / smoother, and more powerful than its competitors. As an example, its main competitor, the Honda Accord did not get a V6 option until 1995 and did not grow to a larger size until 1998.

That is what I don’t understand why people want to sell something they like driving?

@@boogitybear2283 i owned it for 9 years then I found a new daily driver 06 300c for a price I couldn’t refuse. Sold the Camry to offset the cost. If I didn’t need the money and had a spot to park it I wouldn’t have sold it.

Agree 💯

why didn't Doug made a review on a new car?​@@mat13174

Not just that but I absolutely love seeing one so well preserved.

@@HenryBop Agree

This is all you need. Your SUV or truck is pointlessly huge, dangerous for other road users and pedestrians and bad for the environment. Weight is the problem.

Keep in mind that Camrys from the 90s might have actually been more reliable than today’s. Toyota had not built factories in the US yet so all of these were built in Japan so they were probably assembled better.

This and the 90-93 Honda Accords have the same feeling. Gentle to look at and not gaudy. The looked mature and (and are) well put together.

@@Simon-oq6ds No, all 90s American Camrys came from Toyota's Kentucky factory, which was built in the 80s.

Don't you wish all cars are like the Camry, not really exciting but reliable family transportation.

@@Yvaneify I'm definitely a car enthusiast, but sometimes I long for the ordinary again.

Ok

I know exactly what you mean! For me it's the 8th generation (2000-2005) Chevy Impala tailights that I distinctly remember being behind at stop lights all the time as a kid

100% agree - there's something about the taillights, and the entire backend, that just looks perfect to me. Toyota took no risks with the design. This is still my favorite generation of Camry.

Yes those taillights and other rear designs of Japanese 90's cars are really understated and clean.

They sorta remind me of Celica taillights

Ok

It's amazing, in fact surprising, just how heavy the hood is on that gen... solid Japanese steel.

Just bought a 95 XLE and had Car Care Nut fix it up. Nice little car! Other comment was correct…that long hood weighs a lot.

I received a 2004 Camry from my grandfather when they were downsizing to 1 car only and he gave it to me with 55k miles on it. It just hit 100kish miles. I love cars and I'd love to get something nice/faster/fancier, but I just CANNOT justify getting rid of this thing.. ever. Like it'll have to completely die before I get a new car which is great for my wallet, but sucks for wanting to have some fun haha

@@TheRecon614 Don't ever get rid of it. Even if you just keep it as a beater car.

@@TheRecon614don’t get rid of it. That Camry will last you many many more miles. Also cars nowadays are too expensive unless you are wealthy

@@FSAPOJake Oh absolutely, driving this thing till 300k+ miles

300,000 miles easily

​@@Jay-jb2vryeah, you could overpay quite a bit for this car and still end out on top in the long run because it'll just keep going and going if you take care of it.

​@@Jay-jb2vrI have a 91 5 Speed Camry with 258,000 , I just replaced the Timing belt Recently , ready for 350 Plus.

The ECT button (pwr) causes the car to shift at the red line, while Normal shifts at much lower RPMs.

@@JonNobleNobelOne that too! I'd floor it without ECT when getting on the freeway and noticed it'd shift a few hundred rpms lower from redline. (About 5700). Turned on ECT one day and it would shift at 6100rpms.

How did it get totaled? :0

@@tylerbuck9347 lady hit me while I backed out. She claimed the sun blocked her view and didn't see my car (time was around sunset). Made the mistake of going through insurance and whadda know they totaled it n said it'd take $5500 to fix and ignored my private shop's email quoting only $1200. Alternator went out soon after, so I had to cut my losses and accept the $3600 they gave me. No other car has been the same since then. Saving up for a 2014-16 Scion tC hatchback 6 speed manual.

Same with my gf 280k on hers it was her first car and still has it. Shitbox still drives just fine

Hey, if you had a CSi, they were better than my 1993 Camry Executive which was the base model. Thankfully I bought it second hand, it had Aircon installed. I do believe mine didnt have ABS, and nearly ran off the road on a wet day.

I wish my Toyota Camry didn't have power windows. Just one more thing to fix. Both of my arms work just fine.

@@2157AF The Executive badge was dropped in June 1994 in Australia. Only had CSi CSX & Getaway in the 4 cyl model. The V6 models were call Camry Vienta.

90s

@@BostonCycling_ wow, good catch dude

Ok

@@brentguinn2688 Lmao this was a 90s model tho

@@cxssetteman182 this is already been established from the guy before you. Try to keep up dude

I love that generation of Cressida! It was a sleeper car and surprisingly quick for its era

Also. The OD button shuts off the overdrive. Pretty much keeping it in 3rd gear. Usually used if you are towing or climbing a tall hill or mountain. ***

Thank you, just purchased a camry like the one reviewed and I was wondering what that button was about

My SC400 has the ECT with snow, regular and power modes. It can also be shifted to 4,3,2 L etc.

i thought white would have been more boring - think rental spec?

@@paulsz6194 you're not thinking in terms of the 90's. The gold Honda Accord with the pop up headlights was the most abundant in the 80's. Toyota was playing it safe and following suit.

I am sorry but I disagree. This Camry is classical and will always be iconic in my view, but your 2001 Avalon (first gen models) was and continues to be one of the more uglier sedans that the Japanese sold in the US. I never got to drive one from that era. I suspect it drove really cushy, maybe better than this Camry, but I could never get over the “grandma’s car” look of the Avalon.

@@Simon-oq6ds That's what made the Avalon popular. It was a Camry with a little more space. It was called the Japanese Buick.

I want a 96(98?) Avalon with the bench seat in the front.

You sure the “X” just didn’t fall off the badge? LOL

Has that place Altona has anything to do with Altona, Hamburg, Germany?

my Mum went to toyota dealer to buy her first company car, and had bought a base model CSI. I checked the newspaper(remember them) and saw the dealer had an Intrigue, so she changed the order to one of these. She gained moquette cloth trim, 15 inch steel wheels and a CD player. Absolutely ballin.

@@donbrody8529 the joys of a runout model! CD player, “Odyssey II” Jacquard fabric, map pockets, air conditioning and 15 inch steel wheels with Vienta wheel covers. Mine was optioned with the boot lid spoiler, metallic paint (Moonstone Blue), bonnet protector, headlight protectors and driver’s side weathershield. It was quite good value at the time!

@@honestyisthegucci no relation, Altona is the name of the suburb/area where the TMCA factory was located.

Mine is the Mitsubishi Mirage.

That's if it was disabled. Overdrive is a gear with a lower ratio than the engine speed. The 4th gear was an overdrive gear. You would turn that OFF if you wanted to pass.

@@fuelvolts thats what i said. Doug said it would do the opposite in simulating a higher gear (5,6,7 with lower revs) which is false.

Hm interesting, I used to have the same year and spec Camry and the torque converter also shat itself around 185k. I wonder if that's a common issue for this gen, maybe the V6 just puts out a bit too much torque for the 4spd auto.

I drove a 95 Camry V6 to 270k mi, without any transmission or engine issues whatsoever. Maybe they changed something for the 95/96 MY.

Gameboy. And or headset with cassette deck, or that newfangled CD player but it went through batteries too fast. Couple of books for backup.

Except rust at least. Had one in the Northeast US and had tons of rust problems with this car, to the point where it just wasn't worth maintaining. Car I replaced it with was 10 years older but had rust protection on the bottom and had no rust.

@@robgriffin4801 Makes sense. I'm from the US South so rust isn't something I'm used to dealing with

Which part of NY? I'm in NYC and haven't seen a Camry from this gen in a long time. I still see a good amount of Camry's from the 2000's but that's probably going to change as the years go by

I see the '96 - 99 model mostly in Westchester and Rockland county.