Toyota Debuts Newest Camry Sedan as a Hydrid-Only Model

Toyota Motor Corp.’s latest version of its Camry model offers many of the same features that have made it the best-selling sedan in the US for the past 22 years, with one important difference — it’s no longer available with a gas-only engine.

The new Camry, which will start arriving in dealerships this spring, is ditching its longstanding workhorse V-6 in favor of a four-cylinder engine paired with an electric motor, the Japanese automaker said Thursday. That standard hybrid powertrain gets as much as a combined 51 miles per gallon of gasoline for the base model, which is one mile less than the current generation Camry hybrid but significantly better than the gas-only version’s 32 miles per gallon.