Toyota has revealed a Vehicle Proximity Notification system to the Prius to make noise to warn pedestrians when the Prius is in EV mode. We’d much rather see a hybrid car than an electric one, but with plug-in hybrids starting to proliferate more car makers are having to address the issue of silent running endangering blind – […]
Toyota Prius plug-in to cost from £31k
Toyota has announced that the Prius plug-in – due in the UK Spring 2012 – will cost from ‘under’ £31,000. We thought it was probably too good to be true. When we revealed that the US price for the new Toyota Prius plug-in was 36 per cent more than a regular Prius, we did hope that […]
Will the Toyota Prius plug-in cost much the same as a normal Prius?
The Toyota Prius plug-in has been priced at 36 per cent more than a regular Prius in the US. Which means it could cost not much more than a regular Prius in the UK. Toyota has managed to corner the market in hybrid cars over the last decade after its remarkably prescient decision to focus on ‘Eco’ cars […]
Toyota Prius Plug-In is practically perfect in London
Toyota has been running 20 Prius Plug-ins round London, and the interim findings are that they are more economical than a diesel and perfectly suited to urban driving. We though we ought to do Toyota the courtesy of a non-disparaging headline after the first interim results of trials of the Prius Plug-in in the hands […]
Toyota Hybrid Challenge: How Slow Can You Go?
Toyota has launched the Toyota Hybrid Challenge to encourage Toyota hybrid owners to go as slowly as possible and get the best mpg. We’ll be the first to admit it: Toyota hybrids can achieve some pretty remarkable feats of economy. Trouble is, only if you’re happy to drive like you hate it with a passion. And that […]
Toyota Prius V: Launch postponed
Toyota has postponed the launch of the Prius V in Japan as a result of the ongoing problems after the recent earthquake and tsunami. Really, in the big scheme of things, the news that Toyota has postponed the launch of the Prius V in Japan is of no real consequence. The devastation caused in Japan […]
Toyota Prius+: A Party Seven Prius
Toyota reveal the seven seater Prius – the Toyota Prius+ – at Geneva. Features the regular hybrid Prius drivtrain but with Lithium-ion battery pack. On sale 2012. Toyota are bashing on with the extension of the Prius brand as well as the extension of the hybrid drive train in to their regular model range. But probably the big Geneva news […]
Toyota Prius+ Geneva debut
Toyota are bringing the new, bigger Prius V from Detroit to Geneva. But it’s renamed the Toyota Prius+ and gets two extra seats. We’re still not sure we see the point of simultaneously growing the Prius badge in to a sub-brand of Toyota and adding hybrid running gear to the existing Toyota model range. But that’s Toyota’s way forward and we’re going to […]
Toyota Prius C Concept – a City Prius for 2012
Toyota introduces the 3rd model in the Prius range – the Toyota Prius C – a city car concept. But it will go in to production next year. The Prius – love it or hate it – has been with us for more than a decade, with the third generation Prius arriving in 2009. And […]
Toyota Prius: Less polluting than a farting sheep
Toyota in Israel are running an advert showing that the average sheep’s fart is more polluting than the Toyota Prius. Regular readers know our point of view on the whole man-made global warming theory. Tosh. Utter tosh. But there’s a big industry grown up around the ‘Need’ to cut ‘Harmful’ carbon dioxide and other so called greenhouse gasses from […]