The Toyota Camry Solara Convertible was given a minor redesign for the 2007 model year, with a restyled front fascia and rear bumper and new LED taillights. It is powered by either a 155-horsepower 2.4-liter 4-cylinder engine or a 210-horsepower 3.3-liter V6 engine. It was displayed at the 2007 Portland International Auto Show at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland, Oregon.
Toyota's flagship sedan in 2006, the Avalon, was an impressive sight, especially on the inside, where the dashboard and center console featured doors to cover most of the car's controls to give a clean-looking interior.
The Avalon was powered by a 268-horsepower 3.5-liter V6. Standard features included automatic headlights, steering wheel-mounted audio & climate controls & dual zone automatic climate control. Available features included rain-sensing windshield wipers, dynamic laser cruise control and a voice-activated DVD navigation system.
New for Toyota for 2006 was a pair of subcompacts that shared a name to replace the Echo. The 2007 Yaris liftback became available in March 2006. The Yaris delivered fuel economy of up to 40 miles per gallon with its 106-horsepower 1.5-liter four-cylinder engine and 5-speed manual transmission. A 4-speed automatic was also available.
The Yaris featured an interesting interior with the instrument cluster mounted in the center of the dashboard.
Sharing the name of its slightly smaller sibling was the 2007 Yaris sedan. The sedan featured different exterior styling and a different dashboard, though the instrument cluster was still in in the center. The sedan had basically the same available features as the liftback; the main difference was that the sedan offered integrated audio with an LCD display as an option.
Toyota's famous hybrid, the Prius, was the first hybrid to also be a usable primary automobile (Honda's Insight was too small), and it continued on in 2006. The Hybrid Synergy Drive in the Prius consisted of a 1.5-liter four-cylinder engine, a 500-volt electric motor and sealed Nickel-Metal Hydride (Ni-MH) batteries. This combination delivered fuel economy of up to 60 miles per gallon.
At the 2006 Portland International Auto Show, Toyota showed a sneak-peek of their new retro-styled SUV, the FJ Cruiser. The styling recalls the early FJ-series Land Cruisers of the 1960s and 70s, which themselves were descended from the 1951 BJ-series, but since the Land Cruiser name is still in use, Toyota christened this new model with a name similar to that of Chrysler's retro compact.
