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FWIW my wife owns a Solara, which is a halfway decent car with halfway decent power (she's got the V6 version). When she went in to buy it, she already knew what she wanted. Even though it was more expensive, the sales guy kept trying to push her into a Camry. Finally she just said, "lookit, I came in for this (pointing to her sheet of paper with description) car. Either I'm leaving with this or with nothing. Choose, I have to be at work in an hour and I am walking out that door in 15 minutes - no ifs, ands or buts". God I loved her for that.

Point is, Toyota is more proud of their "Camry is the #1 selling car in America" statistic than anything else - even (apparently) the opportunity to sell more higher-priced cars (the Solara is several thousand more than the Camry). Kind of stupid I guess, but I guess economics in the auto industry don't make any sense to begin with.

She got the keys to the Solara in under 15 minutes, BTW.
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