[quote="carnut1100"]Avalon is not a Aussie Camry at all. It is the American one a size up from a Camry, We make Camrys here in Aus, as well as a bigger V6 only one called the Aurion. [quote]
thats wierd .
my mistake ,I thought the avalon was the Aussie Camry and the solara was the yank one
it turns out the solara was origionally the camry coupe
the haynes book of lies lists the avalon, camry ,solara and lexus es300 in the same manual suggesting they are basically the same car
wikipedia says you are spot on ,
as you say
The Avalon was based on a stretched Camry platform and had a 3.0 litre V6
In 1999, Toyota sold the old tooling for the Avalon to Toyota Australia, which launched this Avalon as an "all-new" model in June 2000.
The Australian Avalon therefore had an identical body to the original American built 1995 Avalon
no wonder it failed in Australia , you guys were being sold a "brand new " model that was already 5 years old in the states
the model I have is a 1999 V6 sx v20 which I believe was the conquest in Australia