rev up your engines today I'm gonna explain why this 2012 Camry with the 2.5
liter four-cylinder engine may be the best used car on a planet to buy and why
well the reasons are under the hood because this has the newer design 2.5
liter 4-cylinder engine it's called the 2AR Fe and in 2012
this replaced the to AZ engine the one that burn oil the AZ engines at bad
piston rings and pistons Toyota replaced a lot of them for free but they stopped
their warranty period at 60,000 miles so you go buy used one of those it could be
an oil burner but that's not the case with this 2 AR engine it's a solid
engine I haven't seen any problems in them at all it puts on a little more
horsepower than the older one about 20 horsepower more but the main thing is
it's a redesign they did not have piston and piston ring problems these are solid
reliable engines like Toyota was known for making and transmission and this 2012
has the six-speed automatic transmission which is a pretty bulletproof
transmission the earlier ones that were 4-speed hey they were decent
transmissions but the six-speed drives better Plus gets better gas mileage now
unfortunately for Toyota later on after 2012 they started to put
eight-speed automatics which they've had nothing but problems with they just
don't shift right I've seen some of them break down way too early with those
eight speeds but this baby it's got the six-speed automatic it's pretty much
bulletproof so even though this has more horsepower than the older engine it's a
better engine and with the 6-speed automatic transmission it gets better
gas mileage than the older one this particular one a customer it's 34 miles
a gallon on the highway and about 29 mix juice so it's very economical expecially
on highway but it's really zippy it's got a lot of power to it it's pretty
much the perfect used car for somebody who's looking for an all-around good
used car that you can fit a bunch of people in have a reasonable amount of
power and get great gas mileage sporty the a/c but if you can say a lot
of room inside sure it's messy but nice day car in a back and in the front and
it's got the usual sophisticated electronics here's the steering wheel
with all the bells and buttons and modes and it's got the screen and very
comfortable sporty seats I've rented these things when I was on vacation man
you can set them and you can drive five six hundred miles no problems at all no
sore necks nor sore backs the well-designed comfy seats now this
is a sporty version so it's got all this plastic stuff as you can see it's hit
the speed bumps and actually over here when it came in here today
this was sticking out I guess so I just snapped it back in they golf world look
and hey you're gonna get rips and cracks and pop these things in there not just
get used to knock them back in if you get something put it onto the hood it's
got Toyota's old fashioned solid reliability
lots of working room if you got a really old one you have to change gaskets it's
not crowded you can get in here work easily look at the alternator location
you could change this thing in five minutes not crawling and grabbing well
designed some cars heavy air filters to take half an hour to get to and change
look at this snap there's your air filter talk about easy
to change and it's got the usual giant camry trunk look at that they got a lot
of junk in it keeps going back way back a lot of room in one of these and this
particular one being a sport version it's got a beefed up suspension it
really handles quite well you can really zip around in this thing you're not a
race car I mean it's got a top speed of 118 miles an hour
that's plenty fast enough to get around in a totally dependable fun driving car
who needs to go faster than 118 miles an hour anyway all in all this 2012 camry
four banger and the 6-speed automatic may be the perfect used car for most
people they got front desks back disks all wheel disc brakes they stop great
and being front-wheel drive you can get away with driving east
a winter without snow tires on him I got a friend in Buffalo he's got one you
never put snow tires on it with good dripping regular tires on the front with
a front wheel drive then go quite well in the snow
they're not like a rear-wheel drive car that yeah you're gonna have to put snow
tires on it because it's harder to push in the snow than it is to pull and as
you can see a camera can go through multiple owners and still go down a road
this one's already on the third owner was sold the last time by Carmax
you can see the paint's starting to chip off from people hitting the plastic
bumper but the car will just continue to motor run down the road you can repaint
on Posche them all up make them look like a brand new car or you can just let
them get dirty but still go rolling down the road that's why I picked this 2012
Camry it's probably the best used car in the world that you can buy because
sometimes older is better
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