Picked up new Prius c today.

[botsapper]

Modellista, Toyota's in-house tuner division, has already prepared an aero-package for the Toyota Aqua (Prius C). The rear spoiler looks proper and the front, side skirts, & rear kit lowers the visual stance. 2012 Toyota Prius C Modellista by Toyota Motor Company | Tuning Cars Photos

[todayican]

If that's Toyota's idea of Aero, me thinks the market is WIDE open ;-)

[botsapper]

Without tunnel results, more of a marketing term than anything.

[graesack]

For that matter, most "aero" isn't.

[graesack]

It's not just Toyota. All car manufacturers have winners and losers in the appearance category. My point was that most body kits are probably losers in either downforce or efficiency measurements.

[SwamiSalami]

yea, i dig this kit, but it's not all that it could be.

my opinion? this is a place to begin, but not the end all, be all.

this is more fearful than anything. they're afraid to make something that will actually deliver, because it may look strange to the general public's conventional understandings of what a car "should" look like.

also, how much does it actually improve cd and mpgs? i'm willing to bet not much at all!

the article discusses the car's other employed technologies as a means of boosting efficiency, which is cool, but c'mon.

[Curtis in Texas]

Subscribed!
My next car will be a Hybrid Toyota probably the "C".
I've heard rumors that they were considering the Yaris for the Prius drive train but went with the "C" instead. Darn!

I'm still driving my 89 Isuzu FWD TD I Mark, but it's getting long in the tooth now.

Please to update your mileage and issues as they pop up. I am close to pulling the trigger on one. But, since I'm retired now I need to watch my budget close.

All the best.
Curtis

[graesack]

No issues so far. 600 miles on car. Maybe a fill up end of the week. So far, I'm averaging 50.5mpg via the display. It matched my calculated mpg pretty closely when I filled up a week ago.

Hungrily waiting for sport springs.

All the best.

[Xringer]

Originally Posted by tjts1

60mpg real world is impressive to say the least. Can somebody please take a pic of the trunk with the foam blocks and spare tire removed? I'm curious to see how much trunk space it has without the dead weight.
thanks

Can't really tell too much from one pic.. IMHO, there's not a lot of extra room down there..


But, if you could design a 144v pack that was the exact shape of the spare tire.?.

[Nevyn]

That shouldn't be too hard to do. Use those thin foil-pack Li-Po cells, and connect them in a toroid shape with the contacts toward the center. Take positive out the top, and negative out the bottom. Ding! Winner.