2025 Toyota Camry GT-S Concept Is More About Style than Horsepower

The current-gen Toyota Camry is a great daily driver with a cool modern style and pleasant driving characteristics. But ever since the departure of the Camry’s 301-horsepower V6 engine, it’s been no powerhouse. Still, the 2025 Camry is a good-looking sedan, and can look quite sporty with the right paint and aero additions.

Destined for the 2025 SEMA show this November in Las Vegas, the Camry GT-S Concept proves just that. Outfitted with a shiny “Inferno Flame” orange paint with a black hood and roof, it’s the most aggressive-looking Camry we’ve seen since the now-discontinued Camry TRD – minus the goofy-looking spoiler.

Based on a stock 2025 Camry, the GT-S has a standard 2.5-liter four-banger all-wheel drive hybrid powertrain with 232 horsepower. Inside, the only upgrade appears to be orange seatbelts. But the exterior design is where this Camry shines, with a bold, high-contrast color scheme, and custom aero, including a gloss black extruded mesh grille, gloss black side sills, black Toyota badges, and a black trunk lid spoiler.

Toyota also lowered the chassis of the Camry GT-S by 1.5 inches, and upgraded its brakes with 8-piston calipers and 14.3″ rotors up front, and 6-piston units with 14.0″ rotors in the rear. Its unique 20-inch black snowflake spoke wheels look fantastic, and are outfitted with 245/35R20 Michelin Pilot Sport Cup 2 performance tires. The upgraded sedan also sports a custom rear diffuser with integrated ports for a performance exhaust system.

Toyota says it avoided significant mechanical changes to make the GT-S more approachable than other show cars and closer to something that could actually end up in dealerships. I, for one, hope they do offer this color scheme and upgrade package as an option on the Camry SE or Camry XSE, though I’m not holding my breath. That said, there’s always a chance we could get a Camry GR Sport – though I’d hope that such a thing would come with a horsepower bump.

If the paint job looks familiar, that’s because we first spotted this orange-and-black-hooded combo on the 2015 Lexus RC F – a far more powerful and dynamic car, but also one that cost significantly more than a Camry. That one had a V8, rear-wheel drive, and the hood was made from carbon fiber.