2024 Toyota Camry vs Skoda Superb vs Audi A4 vs BYD Seal vs others

The other two cars in this comparison are the Mercedes-Benz A-Class Limousine and BMW 2-Series GranCoupe.

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2024 Toyota Camry

What you'll like:

• An extremely well-rounded luxury sedan. Lots of road presence due to its sheer size too
• We find the Camry well-priced for what it offers
• Spacious, comfortable & well-equipped cabin
• Powerful and environment-friendly hybrid powertrain mated to a butter-smooth CVT automatic
• Excellent fuel efficiency. ARAI FE rating = 25.49 km/l. 15 km/l in the city is easy
• Compliant ride quality with sorted road manners
• Loaded with kit (9-speaker JBL sound system, ventilated front seats, reclinable rear seats, head-up display, drive modes, telematics, etc.)
• Top-notch safety ratings. Equipment includes 9 airbags, ESP, Toyota Safety Sense (ADAS) & more
• Toyota’s excellent reliability and superb after-sales service

What you won't:

• Styling isn't to everyone's taste. You'll either love it or hate it
• Not as solidly built as German competitors
• Handful of cabin plastics don't feel premium
• Owners will miss a panoramic sunroof, folding rear seat, glovebox cooling & illumination etc.
• Back seat is better suited to 2 adults, rather than 3
• Turning radius of 5.7 m and large size will make it difficult to manouver in congested cities
• Road noise is higher than expected

Official Review

Skoda Superb

GTO's Ownership Review

Mercedes-Benz A-Class Limousine

Official Review

Audi A4

Sauravpat's Ownership Review

BMW 2-Series GranCoupe

Karan561's Drive Report

BYD Seal

What you'll like:

• Good build quality coupled with very appealing styling
• Punchy motor offers fast performance. RWD variant's 0-100 km/h time of 5.9 seconds is enjoyable; AWD variant's performance is ballistic (0-100 in 3.8 seconds)
• Good high-speed stability coupled with sorted handling
• Spacious and well-built cabin with comfortable seats
• Useable 400-litre boot, along with a 50-litre frunk (in the front)
• Inherent EV advantages such as a green image, zero tailpipe emissions, low running costs (charge at home) & top-notch NVH
• We find the BYD Seal to be well-priced for what it offers
• Selectable regenerative braking and drive modes allow you to extract maximum performance or efficiency, as needed
• Sufficient driving range (approx 500 km) for urban commuting as well as the usual road-tripping with family
• 6-year/150,000 km warranty on the car, 8-year battery & motor warranty, 6-year roadside assistance
• Features such as the vehicle-to-load function, soundproof glass, rotating 15.6-inch touchscreen, climate control with heat pump, panoramic sunroof, adaptive cruise control, electrically adjustable A/C vents, NFC key card, etc.
• 5-star NCAP rating, top-notch safety kit & level 2 ADAS to keep you safe

What you won't:

• 145 mm ground clearance requires you to drive with care over large speed breakers & broken roads
• Firm low-speed ride. Liveable, but not plush in the city. You feel bad roads
• Low slung body makes ingress & egress a challenge for the not-so-flexible and elderly
• No option of a lighter-coloured interior theme (the cabin is full-black)
• Rear seat offers poor under-thigh support
• Most functions and settings are controlled through the touchscreen, which makes them difficult to access on the move
• Vertical movement over road joints can get annoying
• Missing features such as connected car tech, a spare wheel (in India!!!), wireless Apple CarPlay, etc.
• Poor rearward visibility due to the acutely-angled rear windscreen and large rear headrests
• BYD's currently small dealership & service network. Even major cities like Mumbai & Delhi have just 1 dealer

Official Review

Here's what BHPian It's Magic replied:

Voted for Toyota Camry

For most Indian people, Mercedes, Audi, and BMW cars belong to a different class than Toyota, Skoda, and BYD cars.

Anyway, I guess the real competition is between the Toyota Camry and the BYD Seal. The BYD Seal is an amazing car, but BYD is still new in India and has only EVs in its portfolio.

I found the Toyota Camry to be well-priced for the features it offers. It also has good looks and is loaded with features. Toyota has better reliability and a more extensive service network.

Here's what BHPian AYP replied:

Voted for the 2 Series due to the 400NM of torque that it puts out from its diesel mill. And that too without any range or charging anxiety.

Here's what BHPian skb1811 replied:

Voted Toyota Camry.

Reliable, Proper Hybrid, so it's going to have a pretty good range, spacious, nicely equipped, and for around 51 lakhs on road, I think it's pretty good value for what it is.

And since it's a great everyday car (read: daily driver, grocery getter, long hauler) the eCVT gearbox isn't going to bother me much.

Here's what BHPian CArspeed replied:

Voting for BMW 2 Series GC

I need a car with a smaller footprint. I am 5’11, but all my family members are less than 5’4. Hence whatever BMW 2 series offers as rear seat space is good enough. Even for a week-long family trip, we carry only four small suitcases and hence the boot space is also sufficient.

Toyotas are reliable but are not easy on the pocket to maintain. I am telling this as an owner of a 2011 Corolla that has run about 1.8 lakhs kms.

The one that bothers me is the low ground clearance number in 2 series but being a car in this segment with a smaller wheelbase offsets the low ground clearance numbers.

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