Sleeper Camry

Somehow I've never written about a street going Toyota on FulTrot. Not that I have anything against the Japanese car manufacturer but they are so widely covered so I never saw the need... that is until I saw on Jalopnik the picture on the right. Yes, SEMA usually gets people to do crazy stuff, and the folks at Toyota Motorsports Technical Center jumped right in.

The MTC team grabbed a regular 2015 Toyota Camry, aka the standard of boring, and turned it into the ultimate "sleeper". They swapped the original but efficient 25/35 mpg 3.5-liter V6 with a whopping 850 hp, supercharged, nitrous-injected 5.7-liter V8 engine. It has enough power to smoke the length of the local Walmart in a fiery burnout. Just because you can!

Next they built a custom full tube-frame chassis with a funny car style body to match, which looks pretty cool I might add. Too bad the car doesn't perform as well as it looks. Even with all the power adders, the Camry only does the quarter-mile in 9.8 seconds. I've seen it's cousin, a Toyota Starlet Turbo in Curacao, run quicker than that.

Nevertheless, it is a cool one-off car. As you can see in the pictures below, the attention to details is considerable. After all, it is a Toyota. Hopefully, some car builder will take the idea and run with it. Surely there is a market for a dozen or more of these "sleeper" Camry's.

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Photo credit: automobilemag.com, motortrend, jalopnik.