Talk:Toyota Camry Solara

message: Is 2007 the last year for the Solara?  I only just learned this from the dealer.  It appears the Scion tC, the Lexus SC and soon to be released Supra will be Toyota's only "sporty" offerings.71.245.121.184 00:16, 10 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bye Bye Solara 

message: Can somebody please explain why the 3.3L DOHC V6 in the Toyota Camry is 210 hp while the same engine in the Camry Solara is 225 hp? Why is this not effected by the new SAE changes? CJ DUB 22:13, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Horsepower? 

message: I mentioned this on the talk page of the image in question and its uploader a week ago to no response, and because I didn't find a Possible Unfree Images page on the Commons, I'm bringing it up here: 
I saw the same image in a Toyota advertisement, suggesting that it is probably not in fact owned by scionlife.com but by Toyota. That would make scionlife's permission useless, as they would not be the owners of the picture. This should be checked into. This article's other images should also be checked. 
Can anyone verify that scionlife.com is or isn't the actual owner of the images illustrating this article? IFCAR 01:22, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Possible image problem 

message: I once heard the convertible version described by Car and Driver as the "boneless chicken of convertibles" due its exetensive body flex, cowl shake; problems both associated with its poor suitability as a convertible. It was in a print article on the new mustang convertible Car and Driver Article. CJ DUB 16:16, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Boneless chicken" 

message: I can't remember when it was changed but first it was just the solara and then later toyota renamed and apparently retconned it the camry solara. I and many others always regarded it as a ploy to pump up the sales figures of the camry in order to claim it as the most popular car in the market. Grabba (talk) 20:02, 17 February 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: No, it was always a Camry. Early advertising emphasized this fact, likely since the market for a sportier 2 door had been abandoned a few years earlier when the Camry Coupe was dropped. Later years (as stated) saw the Camry name downplayed to avoid the association with what was by then perceived as a rather unsporty (4dr) Camry. Ken (talk) 15:49, 30 January 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Solara wasn't always a Camry 

message: Does anybody have a reference when the coupe finished production? We need calendar year and month, not model year. The references for Dec 2008 and mid 2009 are both a bit on the weak side and are very vague. So far we have:
*End date for convertible in Dec 2008. Not controversial. http://wot.motortrend.com/report-toyota-solara-convertible-production-will-not-resume-4547.html#axzz2WSZ8liKZ
*End date for coupe after Dec 2008 (no month given but written in June 2009) http://wot.motortrend.com/report-toyota-solara-convertible-production-will-not-resume-4547.html#axzz2WSZ8liKZ
*End date of Solara in calendar year 2009 (no month given) http://pressroom.toyota.com/article_display.cfm?article_id=2493
*End date of Solara in model year 2008 http://www.kbb.com/toyota/solara/
*End date of Solara in model year 2008 http://www.edmunds.com/toyota/camry-solara/?ps=used
To me, it seems that Solaras made in late 2008 and after were labelled as 2008 model years instead of the normal 2009 model year, quite probably with no updates at all compared to cars made in Aug 2007 to Aug 2008 (the normal model year 2008). This would explain why the Kelly Blue book, Edmunds, etc say it goes up to the 2008 model year but Toyota and Motor Trend say the coupe went up to mid 2009 calendar year.  Stepho  talk  09:07, 17 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Production end date