Toyota will be taking a quartet of Prius models to Detroit in January: 3rd Gen Prius, Prius Plug-in, Prius MPV (Prius Alpha / Prius-V) and a smaller Prius Concept (Prius-C). Toyota has been threatening to build more versions of the Prius for a very long time. Almost as long as there’s been a Prius, in […]
Toyota Prius T Spirit Review & Road Test (2010) Part 2
Part 2 of our review and road test of the Toyota Prius T Spirit. Is the Prius a decent drive or does it offer nothing for the keen driver? We’ve said before that reviewing a car – any car – requires not just subjectivity but objectivity too. Besides giving our opinion on a car we […]
Toyota Prius T Spirit Review & Road Test (2010 / 2011)
We have the best selling hybrid car in the world – the Toyota Prius (Toyota Prius T Spirit) – in for review and road test this week. Hype, fiction or fact? We’ll find out. There are many – us included – who thought it extremely unlikely that Toyota would ever want to send us any […]
Toyota Prius T Spirit Review & Road Test (2010) Part 3
In the final part of our review & road test of the Toyota Prius, we discover it makes a brilliant Transport Appliance. It seems to us that the Prius is a mode of transport, not a car in the sense we enjoy a car. It’s not about feeding sensations back to the driver or a […]
Toyota Prius Generation “X” Revealed UPDATE: ‘Prius 10th Anniversary’
Toyota has revealed a Limited Edition Prius – the Toyota Prius Generation “X” – to celebrate 10 years in the UK. Just 1,000 being built at £26,150. Update: We had an email from Toyota this morning asking us to correct this article. Apparently, despite titling the press release they sent us ‘Toyota Prius Generation “X”‘, […]
Toyota Prius gets new option – Noise
Toyota are launching a noise device for the Prius to create a whirring sound when the Prius runs just on the electric motor. One of the big selling points for the Toyota Prius is its ability to run for short distances at low speed on electric-only power. Not only does that make the Prius zero […]
Toyota Prius plug-in hits UK
Toyota are trialing 20 Prius plug-in hybrids in London in conjunction with EDF energy to assess real world usage. The next step in the Toyota Prius story is the plug-in Prius, which adds some Lithium-Ion batteries to the mix and the ability to plug the Prius in to the mains to get a usable kick-start to your day’s […]
Toyota Prius Recall – 8,500 UK cars affected
Toyota has issued a recall for the Toyota Prius to rectify software problems causing braking problems on the 3rd generation Prius. Last week we asked if the Toyota Prius would be the next Toyota to be recalled, after reports that the software on the Prius was causing problems with the brake systems on slippery surfaces. The next […]
Toyota Prius Recall: It’s happening in the US and Japan
It’s being reported that Toyota are about to issue a recall in the US and Japan over software issues causing braking problems in the 2009 / 2010 Prius This whole Toyota Recall mess has got to end somewhere, but not yet. We’re seeing reports coming in that Toyota is about to announce a recall for […]
Toyota Prius brake problems – Toyota admit a fault
Toyota has admitted that there is a software problem with the 3rd generation Prius which results in problems braking on slippery surfaces. Good grief, it goes from bad to worse for Toyota. Yesterday we reported that there have been a number of complaints about braking problems on the latest generation (2009/2010) Toyota Prius. Owners had […]