2025 Toyota Camry Wins CarBuzz Car of the Year Award

In the 12 months since final year's CarBuzz Grants, we've driven over 160 cars, extending from pickup trucks and SUVs to sports cars and supercars. But for the to begin with time ever, we've delegated an through and through victor: a single car to be delegated the CarBuzz Car of The Year and our beat choose to purchase in 2025. With a colossal run of vehicles to select from, picking a single car was no simple assignment, but after months of dialog and consideration among our editors and test drivers, the first-ever CarBuzz Car of the Year has been delegated as the 2025 Toyota Camry.

The Single Most Vital Car Of The Year

In deciding a single champ to be delegated our Car of the Year, we looked at each aspect of a car, calculating in its brilliance against its peers, esteem, security, fuel economy, common sense, and more. Over all else, we looked for a car that made the greatest explanation approximately the auto industry as a entire. No car does that more than the Toyota Camry - a single car to exemplify the gigantic shake-up that's taken put this year. Everybody thought 2024 would be the year of the EV, but it was truly the year of the cross breed, and Toyota's shrewd arranging and revultion to putting its eggs in a single bushel has demonstrated how it's once once more a step ahead of the rest.

"The Camry looks extraordinary, has a premium insides, and you presently get more than 50 miles to the gallon. What's not to cherish? Toyota took a car that might as of now offer itself based on its title and raised it to market-leading status. The Camry is the perfect car for most of America."

- Jared Rosenholtz, CarBuzz Editor-at-Large

The Camry is still a Camry in each way that things, conveying midsize vehicle bundling at a beginning MSRP of beneath $30,000 and a full pontoon of security and consolation highlights to keep you and your adored ones secure. But it presently does it all looking superior than ever some time recently whereas accomplishing over 50 mpg combined. That figure utilized to be saved for the Prius and the Prius alone. We've been told time and time once more how there has to be a compromise some place, but from where we're sitting, we can't see where Toyota made any concessions at all with the Camry.

With its sub-$30k beginning cost, the Camry was in hot dispute for the Best Budget Car category, but the Camry is so much more than a awesome budget car and is a near-perfect package.

"The Camry proceeds to be a pioneer when it comes to sedans with incredible fashion, a smooth, comfortable ride, and a now-standard cross breed motor that conveys solid execution and extraordinary fuel economy."

- Nicole Wakelin, CarBuzz Editor-at-Large

An Zapping Runner-Up

2024 saw handfuls of momentous cars come to showcase that challenged open recognition and re-imagined the auto industry, and whereas the Camry is the one we considered the most vital, we'd be delinquent not to specify the Hyundai Ioniq 5 N as a runner-up. As EVs apparently fell from beauty, the Ioniq 5 N was the brilliant child that drew unending commend. If there is a single EV we drove that had any chance of changing over indeed the most ardent EV non-believers, it is the Ioniq 5 N, combining the productivity of an electric car with the soul of one fueled by inner combustion.

Some may name the fake transmission and motor sounds as a trick, but when they're designed to feel more natural than most honest to goodness combustion cars, we do not care. Over all, the Ioniq 5 N put a grin on our faces, which is something we thought an EV would never do. That in itself is commendable of commend, and the Ioniq 5 N has laid down a benchmark by which all other execution EVs will be measured. That's why we delegated it our Best EV to purchase in 2025.