handling pfft yes the BA have better ride but in terms of handling the commodores have the falcons licked to bits, have a look at track times and speed in the hills in reviews, the commodore although using older technology has far better mechanical grip and is generally a lot quicker when it comes to point to point dricing, let alone when your talking the new 3.6L V6 SV6 compared to XR6 vs Sportivo, the commodore is much more fuel efficient than the falcon and even pips the smaller engined camry on the freeway with testing seeing figures as low as 7.8L per 100km.
Than camry will have them both in reliability and general build quality no matter what ppl say about the BA i know first hand they are not what its cracked up to be.
My sis's boyfriend has one as a company car that has now done only 30k kms the front badge has fallen off as well as the sides strips, not major but come on can't they glue the thing together. It has a rather worrying noise coming from the front left suspesion, etc etc.
Commodore is 6 speed manual vs 5 speed in both camry and falcon. Camry will probably win in boot space for depth due to the fact it doesn't have a diff up back. But the falcon has the new struts instead of c hinges which means no crushed luggage in the boot.
My parents own a 2002 manual touring ie pre spotivo camry anyway been great for us although couple small things have gone wrong, aerial died fiexd under warranty and the front wheel bearings went onec again warranty.
Personally the camry is a great car for eating miles but as a handling package its not great it doesn't take to long to explore the limits off the car and find out it will understeer. The motor is good but lacks low down torque and is getting a bit long in the teeth, and with the added weight of the new generation camry probably could do with a bigger motor or a few more herbs squeezed out.
Mon, 23 May 2005 10:04
