What is the best year for the Toyota Camry Solara?
No official dataset can support one universal best year. Use the table to compare complaint patterns and EPA figures, then open the shortlisted years for recall campaigns and exact specifications.
Model-year matrix
Toyota Camry Solara
which year?
Compare every Toyota Camry Solara model year the EPA recorded, 1999 to 2008. See complaint patterns, fuel economy and configurations side by side, then open any year for recall campaigns and the full dossier. Confirm against the official NHTSA recall search.
Evidence-led answer
Looking for the best Toyota Camry Solara year—or years to avoid?
The official records cannot honestly name a best, worst or most reliable year. Complaint totals have no sales, mileage or age denominator. They can show where more reports were filed and which components were named, giving you years to investigate more closely before checking the exact car and its VIN.
Which Toyota Camry Solara years should you avoid?
The records cannot justify a blanket avoid label. Years with more reports are surfaced below as research priorities, not predictions about every car from that year.
01 · More reports to inspect2004
161 indexed complaint reports; structure is the most-reported component label.
Open the 2004 dossier →02 · More reports to inspect2007126 indexed complaint reports; exterior lighting is the most-reported component label.
Open the 2007 dossier →03 · More reports to inspect2006116 indexed complaint reports; structure is the most-reported component label.
Open the 2006 dossier →Do not read this as an avoid list. Older and higher-selling model years usually accumulate more reports. A low count can also mean a newer, rarer or poorly matched vehicle—not a safer one.
Complaint totals are counts of owner-submitted allegations, not confirmed defects, and they carry no denominator: they are not adjusted for how many cars were sold, how old they are, how far they are driven, or how much publicity a fault received. A high-volume or older year will usually show more reports than a rare or recent one. The site does not convert these into a reliability score, because the data needed to do that honestly is not in the public record.
Direct comparison
Compare two Toyota Camry Solara model years.
Choose any two years. The URL keeps the pair so you can return to the same comparison. Every figure below is an observed official record or EPA estimate—not a reliability score.
2007 Toyota Camry Solara
- NHTSA complaint allegations
- 126
- Combined EPA economy
- Not indexed
- EPA configurations
- Not indexed
- Annual EPA fuel-cost estimate
- Not indexed
- Fuel labels
- Not indexed
Most-reported component labelsexterior lighting 26structure 26electrical system 14
Open the 2007 evidence dossier →2008 Toyota Camry Solara
- NHTSA complaint allegations
- 83
- Combined EPA economy
- Not indexed
- EPA configurations
- Not indexed
- Annual EPA fuel-cost estimate
- Not indexed
- Fuel labels
- Not indexed
Most-reported component labelsstructure 26unknown or other 12vehicle speed control 11
Open the 2008 evidence dossier →Observed complaint-record difference
2008 has 43 fewer indexed complaint allegations than 2007.
This is not a rate or reliability finding. The counts have no sales, mileage, age or exposure denominator, and newer years have had less time to accumulate reports.Side by side
Toyota Camry Solara by year.
Complaint bars are scaled against this model’s own highest year, so they compare years with each other and with nothing else.
| Year | Complaints | Most-reported components | Combined MPG | EPA configs | Annual fuel cost | Dossier |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 83 | structure 26unknown or other 12vehicle speed control 11 | — | — | — | Dossier → |
| 2007 | 126 | exterior lighting 26structure 26electrical system 14 | — | — | — | Dossier → |
| 2006 | 116 | structure 45vehicle speed control 19air bags 17 | — | — | — | Dossier → |
| 2005 | 92 | structure 25vehicle speed control 20power train 16 | — | — | — | Dossier → |
| 2004 | 161 | structure 36steering 30vehicle speed control 27 | — | — | — | Dossier → |
| 2003 | 24 | air bags 8vehicle speed control 4electrical system 3 | — | — | — | Dossier → |
| 2002 | 60 | vehicle speed control 14air bags 12seat belts 8 | — | — | — | Dossier → |
| 2001 | 53 | air bags 13vehicle speed control 9seat belts 8 | — | — | — | Dossier → |
| 2000 | 66 | service brakes, hydraulic 9engine and engine cooling 8tires 8 | — | — | — | Dossier → |
| 1999 | 84 | air bags 24engine and engine cooling 13service brakes, hydraulic 7 | — | — | — | Dossier → |
Evidence snapshot generated . “Not indexed” means NHTSA holds no complaint record matching this exact year, make and model — not that no fault occurred. Recall campaigns are not summarised here: NHTSA publishes no bulk recall dataset, and fetching them per year would take longer than the page should. Each year’s dossier shows its recalls in full, live from NHTSA.