Already suggested, but remember, "total" in this setting is a combined economic AND physical concept. Although the number (or range) varies from state to state, once a vehicle's damage reaches some percentage of its value, the car is declared a "total" (as in total loss).
The way it's done sometimes leads to odd results. The bare bones 2002 4 cyl stick Camry that saved my life was at first NOT a total. Ins co insisted on fixing it, though the repair quote was only a couple hundred shy of the total point. I begged them to just write it off, but they wouldn't budge. So they paid for all the body and paint work, and when I was doing the delivery inspection before signing for it, we discovered that the airbag computer had been fried and had to be replaced. That was another $1900 (wow) and made the car an instant total. So the ins co ended up, in effect, paying for the car twice and ended up owning a salvage title car.
By contrast, if I'd owned a loaded Lexus ES (built off the Camry platform) with the same damage, the car would NOT have been totaled since the supplement for the computer would have still left the car below the total level.