New Prius V

[Fr3AkAzOiD]

Needs to be another foot longer with some third row seating to pull my wife away from wanting a suv or minivan. Showed her and she said it just looks like an oversized hatchback.

[PaleMelanesian]

Originally Posted by Fr3AkAzOiD

Needs to be another foot longer with some third row seating to pull my wife away from wanting a suv or minivan. Showed her and she said it just looks like an oversized hatchback.

per-zactly! Mine too.

[botsapper]

Originally Posted by NeilBlanchard

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.

[cfg83]

botsapper -

Would that make the original Prius the "Prius A" (for being the first one) or "Prius S" (for sedan)?

CarloSW2

[botsapper]

Personally I hate alpha-numeric car names. (Kia might also go alphanumeric, like in their home market.) No soul or passion behind it.
TestaRossa instead of 250 TR, Viper instead of RT/10, Countach instead of
Project 112, and Mustang instead of T2!
(then again, there's the 911, 917, GT40, Z28, F150, 2CV, M3, etc)

[SwamiSalami]

I feel as though this is adequate based on my current knowledge. What's the eV range again?

[SwamiSalami]

ha! Speak of the devil...A TOYOTA AD ^^^

[JasonG]

Originally Posted by Fr3AkAzOiD

Needs to be another foot longer with some third row seating to pull my wife away from wanting a suv or minivan. Showed her and she said it just looks like an oversized hatchback.

Yeah, not enough room to justify a 20% FE hit.
Now putting a hybrid drivetrain in thr Sienna would sell like mad.
A Green minivan for all the soccer moms !

[kurzer]

Originally Posted by NeilBlanchard

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?

i´m a little confused yet. in the german forum a member is kinda pissed off, because the big prius isn´t for sale with only 5 seats.

aside from the fakt, it isn´t for sale at all for the moment, it´s always claimed to be a 7 seater in europe. i can´t belive, this will be that way (US=5s, EUR=7s), but nothing is impossible...

[SwamiSalami]

...cough...

eV range?...

...cough.