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Originally Posted by Stubby79
Your Camry comes from the era of cars when they got overweight(for safety, size and features), but before they started making cars/transmissions/engines any more efficient. It's probably because they got so big and heavy that, after a while, forced the auto makers to start making them more efficient, because modern cars are both heavy and fuel efficient.
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CAFE standards forced automakers to make cars more fuel efficient. Congress passed new standards back in 2007 and suddenly automakers "found" the technology to make cars 25% more fuel efficient over 5 years after 20 years of stagnation.
