06-14-2021, 04:12 AM
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GEN5 Prius coming the end of next year, lower coefficient of drag and better efficiency
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06-14-2021, 04:58 AM
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More looks like rumors...
Is there any official announcement by Toyota?
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06-14-2021, 02:01 PM
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10% improvement in MPG from previous generation?
I'm a big fan of the Prius utility. The one thing I'd want improved is acceleration performance. Would be neat if this could be improved with higher output electric motors rather than needing to extract the performance from the ICE.
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06-14-2021, 05:47 PM
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This is the longest wait between PRII generations
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06-14-2021, 09:00 PM
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Crazy, seems just like yesterday they were showing those dumb commercials of the gen IV Prius in a high speed police chase. How time flies.
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06-14-2021, 09:33 PM
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It seems like yesterday when I was drooling over pictures in magazines of the upcoming Gen 2.
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06-15-2021, 04:56 PM
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I suspect this is the last generation for the Prius and that is why the current car is on it's 6th year (2021). Now that Toyota has a hybrid version of almost every model there is no reason to keep the Prius which has fallen to only 44K a year (down from 236K a year) |
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06-15-2021, 05:13 PM
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Which is crazy, because the Prius is among Toyota's highest utility per cost per efficiency vehicle out there. It's among my favorite vehicles of all time and such a good value. It was nice having zero belts to change. Have they eliminated belts on any other models?
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06-15-2021, 05:15 PM
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Which is crazy, because the Prius is among Toyota's highest utility per cost per efficiency vehicle out there. It's among my favorite vehicles of all time and such a good value. It was nice having zero belts to change. Have they eliminated belts on any other models?
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Now corolla will be "utility per cost".
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06-15-2021, 05:20 PM
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Now corolla will be "utility per cost".
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Yeah but a hatch is what gives 70% of the utility, then the sheer interior volume. A person can sleep in the back of a Prius. I've stuffed a set of dining room furniture into a prius.
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