Thread: New Prius V
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Old 01-14-2011, 12:20 PM   #33 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by NeilBlanchard View Post
The Prius V is about the same size of the Odyssey (except for the number of seats), but it has much better FE than either the Odyssey or the MZ5? It would seem that if they put 7 seats in the Prius V that it would eat the Sienna for lunch?
That's why Prius will break out from Toyota and become a new auto brand. It's very similar to Toyota giving birth to the Scion brand. The Scion's tC, xB, & xD are almost parallel models with Toyota's Yaris, Corolla & Matrix. Only the lifestyle marketing makes them distinctive from each other.

The new Prius (Piuses, Prii, Prium,etc?) models will have larger & smaller (maybe hybrid iQ) versions in conjunction with the mother-Toyota & brother-Scion.
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