New 2025 Toyota Camry earns five-star ANCAP safety rating with one record score

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The new 2025 Toyota Camry has received a maximum five-star safety rating from ANCAP ahead of its imminent launch in Australia.

ANCAP conducted testing of the new Toyota Camry locally, with all variants – Ascent, Ascent Sport and SL – of the now-hybrid-only sedan earning the rating.

While the new-generation Camry is a reworked version of the seven-year-old outgoing model – with the same footprint and revised underpinnings under updated bodywork and a new interior – it received a score of 95 per cent for adult occupant protection.

This is the highest of any car tested under ANCAP's latest and most stringent 2023 criteria, which will apply through 2025.

ANCAP said the Camry achieved maximum points in the side impact, oblique pole, whiplash and side impact tests, which helped it to achieve the high score. It also demonstrated a lower risk to oncoming vehicles in a head-on collision, with a 0.96-point penalty out of 8.00 applied.

The Camry scored 87 per cent for child occupant protection, 84 per cent for vulnerable road users, and 81 per cent for safety assist.

In the frontal offset test, the protection of the neck and chest of the 10-year-old dummy was found to be 'adequate', while all other tests for the six-year-old and 10-year-old dummies returned a 'good' score.

Its child presence detection system – which warns drivers to check for rear occupants if the door was opened, rather than a monitor to detect movement – scored 1.0 out of 4.0 possible points.

As the Camry's reverse AEB and driver monitoring systems do not default to 'on' with each start-up, ANCAP said it did not assess these technologies, and no points were awarded.

"The Toyota Camry offers robust protection for both occupants and vulnerable road users," said ANCAP chief executive officer Carla Hoorweg.

"This is a popular vehicle, widely used for both private and business purposes, which offers the five-star safety that drivers and passengers expect."

The Toyota Camry joins the BYD Seal and Skoda Octavia as the only vehicles in the mainstream medium car segment with a valid ANCAP safety rating, with the Tesla Model 3, Hyundai Sonata and Honda Accord currently unrated.

Meanwhile, the ANCAP ratings for the Mazda 6 and now-discontinued Volkswagen Passat expired at the end of 2022 due to the introduction of a six-year datestamp limit.

More information on the 2025 Toyota Camry, including prices and detailed specifications for Australia, is due to be confirmed imminently.

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