This Camry stayed narrow on purpose: Japan's size-based car tax punished wide bodies, so while the rest of the world got the broader XV10 Camry, Japan kept the slim V30 just to dodge the bracket.
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Lead trim: V30 1,838 cc 4S-FE four · up to 173 hp
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FactThis Camry stayed narrow on purpose: Japan's size-based car tax punished wide bodies, so while the rest of the world got the broader XV10 Camry, Japan kept the slim V30 just to dodge the bracket.
Introduced exclusively to Japan in July 1990 and built until June 1994 at the Tsutsumi plant, the Camry V30 carried forward the four-door sedan and a differently styled hardtop sedan, either of which could be had in a revised-styling Vista variety (also called Toyota Vista in Japan). Both bodies formed the basis of the enlarged wide-body XV10 versions from September 1991 aimed at international markets: sedans in the wide-body format sold overseas as the Camry XV10, and the hardtop sedans became the Lexus ES 300 (XV10), sold in Japan as the Toyota Windom. The V30 stayed smaller to remain within the Japanese "five-number" registration category, which required a body width under 1.7 m, length under 4.7 m and engines at or below 2,000 cc. Penned by Osamu Shikado, its design was much rounder than the V20's, the sedans having a four-part greenhouse with integrated window sashes in place of the V20's six-window one, with a slimline grille insert and, on hardtops, a thinner front assembly with narrower lights and a more sharply raked C-pillar; base cars gained full body-color coding of peripheral exterior components. The four-wheel strut/coil suspension carried over from the V20, with a wheel-stroke-sensitive Toyota Electronic Modulated Suspension (TEMS) and speed-sensitive four-wheel steering as options on high-end front-drive trims. The engines were three twin-cam inline-fours (1.8-liter 4S-FE, and the 2.0-liter 3S-FE and higher-performance 3S-GE), the 2.0-liter 2C-T turbo-diesel inline-four from earlier generations and, for the flagship Camry Prominent only, the 2.0-liter 1VZ-FE gasoline V6 (with a 2,496 cc 4VZ-FE V6 also listed). It came in front-wheel-drive and four-wheel-drive layouts, on a 2,600 mm (102.4 in) wheelbase, 4,600 mm (181.1 in) long as a sedan and 4,630-4,670 mm as a hardtop, 1,695 mm (66.7 in) wide and 1,395 mm (54.9 in) high (1,380 mm hardtop).
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VerifiedFIRST PRINTPROThe XV70 Camry was the first Toyota of any kind to run Entune 3.0 — an infotainment system built on an open-source Linux OS, rather than Toyota's usual closed software.
VerifiedFIRST · WORLDWIDEFIRST PRINT×2This Camry generation spawned a wagon twin sold as the Toyota Mark II Qualis — and in doing so broke a rule that had held for every Mark II before it: it's the only front-wheel-drive Mark II nameplate ever made.
6 published trims in the catalogue. A blank is a figure not recorded, not zero.
| Trim | Years | Engine | Power | Torque | 0–60 | Drive | Gearbox | MSRP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| V30 1,838 cc 4S-FE four | 1990–1994 | 1.8 L Inline-4 | 113 hp | 116 lb-ft | — | — | — | — |
| V30 1,974 cc 2C-T turbo-diesel four | 1990–1994 | 2.0 L Inline-4 | 79 hp | 117 lb-ft | — | — | — | — |
| V30 1,992 cc 1VZ-FE V6 (Camry Prominent) | 1990–1994 | 2.0 L V6 | 138 hp | 128 lb-ft | — | — | — | — |
| V30 1,998 cc 3S-FE four | 1990–1994 | 2.0 L Inline-4 | 113 hp | 119 lb-ft | — | — | — | — |
| V30 1,998 cc 3S-GE four | 1990–1994 | 2.0 L Inline-4 | 154 hp | 137 lb-ft | — | — | — | — |
| V30 2,496 cc 4VZ-FE V6 | 1990–1994 | 2.5 L V6 | 173 hp | 165 lb-ft | — | — | — | — |
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