My dad's Verada is the older one, the late 90's shape was a much better car (he has previously owned one of these also). It's not so bad running on LPG but yeah, mileage is pretty bad.

I'm pretty sure you had the model Camry before ours, they were a great car too. When I bought ours I looked at so many, all were beat up and in shocking condition. And all were auto, gutless heaps. Then I inspected the one I bought, overall much nicer and manual was a world of difference to drive, so much more responsive and powerful - for the same engine!