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Prius sales mirror petrol prices and they're rising. Looks like a good time to expand the line with two all-new Priuses (plus the Plug-in Prius).
All of the new Prius family will be full new models, not rebadges of existing hybrids (eg Camry Hybrid etc). Today Toyota showed us the bigger and smaller siblings to the current car.
Prius V is a five-seater MPV only a few mm longer than Prius but with 60 per cent more boot. It still has Prius-type aerodynamics but is just a couple of mpg worse. It comes complete with new multimedia - called Entune - including apps and voice recognition. Expect it to go on sale in the summer.
A smaller car, Prius C concept, is the one you see above. It's the same size as the Honda Insight and aimed at young couples. Toyota claims Prius C ‘will be fun to drive', and boast the best economy of any hybrid except plug-ins. Roomy cabin.
The Prius C concept was designed at Toyota's European studio in Nice. The exterior is quite close to production, but the interior is pure fantasy, which is a shame. Engine and CVT transmission/motor system will be similar principle to the bigger Prius, but the engine is smaller than a 1.8. Prius C launch is planned for the first half of 2012.
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tonymontana93 commented on this article
at 08:09 pm on 10 January 2011
the prius will always be sh*t
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Afaque commented on this article
at 08:32 pm on 10 January 2011
Buy fun do they mean slow, dreary and what's the word... yeah boring!!?...
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jaffakakes commented on this article
at 08:37 pm on 10 January 2011
Does anyone remember the Toyota Hybrid X conceptfrom a few years back? It looks remarkably similar to that. Time to dig out my TG Mag archive again...
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deadcell95 commented on this article
at 08:42 pm on 10 January 2011
Prius and "fun to drive" will never be in the same sentence. Also, based on what we get here stateside, Toyota and "fun to drive" haven't been in the same sentence in a while.
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hamunaptrah commented on this article
at 09:03 pm on 10 January 2011
With headlights located so high up on the car, I can only imagine cresting a hill and not being able to see what is on the other side, other than that it looks like most other sub compacts.
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