1989 Toyota Camry Reviews, Pricing & Specs

I have driven my 1989 Camry v-6 LE Wagon for the last 5 years,after purchasing this rust free vehicle from it's second owner. The 6 cylinder engine has great power and quietly handles it chores of hauling the family. The car has nearly 160,000 miles, I am hoping to see 300,000 before I have to retire it. The folding seats make a useful cargo hauler when needed. I experience 19-20 mpg in town and 25-27 mpg on the highway.

What can I say about the Camry? It cost me $250 sight-unseen, bought off eBay and arrived on the back of a truck from NSW. I was told the transmission would need relacing – but the simple adjustment of one nut got another 18 months out of it. Other than a $350 second-hand transmission, it has had nothing but routine maintenance and tyres. My dad runs it up and down the Geelong-Melbourne road 6 days a week and has put nearly an extra 100 000kms under its wheels. It’s completely soulless and boring – but economical and reliable. If you just want to get from A to B (and with no literally no luxuries in between) then the Camry is the car for you. Don’t expect it to be fun…

It was a reliable car. It took a beating and kept on going. Until my Brother shot one of the rods through it and junked it. It was the first car that I drove and had in my name. I miss it.

The performance of this car is quite amazing based on its age. It is a 1989 toyota. yeah, it may be old, but it has never had any sort of engine problems. great car to drive. powerful enough to haul gear to campgrounds, carrying skis/boards to your favorite resort, or just city crusin. It gets roughly 18 miles to the gallon. not the greatest, but again, for its age, quite amazing. i would deffinately reccomend this to a friend if they are the adventourous type of person and loves to go places

Learned to drive on this car in high school. Got me from point A to point B -- and that's about it.

This car has 132000 miles, perfect interior, never done nothing, outside of oil change, tranny service, coolant, thats it. Car runs and drives like new.

when i first got it for 200 dollars it was a great car, very rusty and rotten but a good car, it has just about 370,000 km on it and the motor still works perfect and so does the transmission. overall i am happy with that but unfortunately everything around the drivetrain was no good, good reliable car but too rotten

Wish they had more power, but its hard to beat the reliablity

It's a car you want if you're really cheap. It doesn't cost that much if you maintain it right. Its engine is performant in winter. It's not too fun to drive because of the clunky transmission. The dents make it ugly, and it's almost rusted thru. Comfy seats, and not so noisy interior. Good on gas (we got 700k on 60l once)

It was a 5 spd for learning to drive on. Was deceivingly quick for a rather bland family sedan. It was incredibly well built and took a lot of abuse from several of us driving it.