My comparison of the Camry Hybrid and the FFH

[Carnivore]

I have owned a camry hyrbid fully loaded for almost 3 years. I have already ordered my FFH but only just drove it yesterday. Here is what I noticed.

 

Acceleration. Although the car and driver report shows the camry with a pretty significant 0-60 advantage, there was not a noticable difference in my driving and the FFH had good acceleration

 

Room. The Camry has a tad more internal space I think but the FFH has much nicer seats and a lot more trunk room

 

Technology. the FFH "gadgets" and quality of its dashboard (both the nav system and the lcd readouts) are superior. the camry is cheap and not very aesthetically exciting

 

MPG. FFH is better here but i have no experience in the FFH long term. In the city, my Camry only gets about 34-35 at best. On the highway, I can get 38-39

 

Electric acceleration. The one thing i noticed right off the bat, was the FFH had significantly more electric acceleration than the Camry. The camry can't really acclerate without the gas motor helping unless its on a slight decline.

[robm15]

I have owned a camry hyrbid fully loaded for almost 3 years. I have already ordered my FFH but only just drove it yesterday. Here is what I noticed.

 

Acceleration. Although the car and driver report shows the camry with a pretty significant 0-60 advantage, there was not a noticable difference in my driving and the FFH had good acceleration

 

Technology. the FFH "gadgets" and quality of its dashboard (both the nav system and the lcd readouts) are superior. the camry is cheap and not very aesthetically exciting.

 

Hi Carnivore,

I also have had the Camry Hybrid since it was first showed up in Dealer show rooms 3 years ago, and I also have a FFH on order. I only got to test drive a FFH last weekend. So I read your post with a lot of interest to see if you noticed the same things I did. I didn't notice much difference in acceleration either. I'm the type of driver that usually pulls out in front of most (not all) other drivers from a green light. So acceleration is something I care about, and I felt it was about the same.

 

I do love the technology in the FFH. I told my wife after getting back into the TCH that I felt like I just stepped back in time after driving around in a FFH. (She just laughed at me).

 

Other things I noticed:

 

The seats were much more comfortable. It took me a while before I could get comfortable in my TCH, but I finally got the seats adjusted to the sweet spot. But I really liked the comfort of the FFH seats right away.

 

The motor to engine transition is much less noticable in the FFH. I kinda considered myself a experienced hybrid driver, and thought I'd know the difference. But I couldn't tell without looking at the instrument cluster. That may change as I learn the car better when I own a FFH, but for now I can just say I am impressed.

 

I wish I could have spent more time going over the FFH with a fine tooth comb, but I guess that can wait until I get mine. Some questions I came away with were room in the trunk, I like you said that the FFH has more space. The capless gas fill. I forgot to look at that, but it just causes me concern because that seems like it will permit dust and debris to settle there and get into the tank and shorten the life of the fuel filter. The navigation system functions. I have nav in my TCH and so will my FFH. I use it a lot and I hope it works as good or better. There is more, but all questions will be answered next month, when my new FFH arrives!

[hybridfam]

Wow I cant beleive Im not going to be the only proud owner of a Camry Hybrid and a Fusion Hybrid. I have an 08 Camry and love it, but we are a FORD family so when the Fusion came out we had to order one. So we will be trading our gas hoggin Mountaineer in for the Fusion Hybrid. I cant wait. My husband will take the Camry and I will of course have the Fusion.