The 2012 Toyota Prius V is the first new member of the Toyota Prius Family and the first Prius model to debut after the Prius we’ve all come to know and love. The goal of the Toyota Prius V is to meet the needs of full-families with active lifestyles while providing the same ‘care about mother [...]
Toyota’s Prius Family, otherwise known as Toyota Prii, is getting larger and larger with the new Toyota Prius Plug-in Hybrid and the Toyota Prius V joining the standard Toyota Prius in the Japanese automaker’s lineup. In the middle of 2012 the Toyota Prius C will also join the rest of the family. To advertise its [...]
Toyota Motor Company announced earlier this year of its efforts to expand the Prius family. So it’s no wonder that the Prius is predicted to become the company’s best seller, surpassing the high-volume sales of the Corolla and the Camry. By the end of this year along with the usual five-door model that we’ve come [...]
What do you call a single Prius? A Toyota Prius. What do you call a family of Toyota Priuses? Toyota Prii. To that end, Toyota is considering another Prius model that would carry three rows of seats. The three-row Toyota Prius will be a different model then the 5-seat Toyota Prius V, which will go [...]
Toyota announced today that the Prius alpha will be delayed in Japan from its original launch date. While some buyers in Japan will have to wait until April next year for deliveries, U.S. delivery remains on schedule. “Following Toyota Motor Corporation’s announcement in Japan today that delivery of the Prius alpha will be delayed, Toyota Motor [...]
Toyota said this morning that it will delay the launch of the Prius hybrid minivan in Japan because of disruptions in parts supply following the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. Spokesman Paul Nolasco said that Toyota originally planned to roll out the Prius minivan in April but the huge disaster in northern Japan crippled supply chains [...]
As a part of its global vision corporate outline today, Toyota announced that it will expand the line of hybrid models, launching about 10 more by 2015, and will continue to develop a full range of plug-in hybrid vehicles, pure electric vehicles and fuel cell vehicles. Toyota also said that it will pursue “further gains [...]
According to a person familiar with Toyota’s plan, the Prius minivans due later this year will be the first standard hybrids from the company to be equipped with a lithium-ion battery. However, the lightweight lithium-ion battery pack will only appear on the Japanese version of the model. The U.S. version, known as the Toyota Prius [...]
Just as the world was given a world premiere of Toyota’s new plans to expand the Prius lineup back in January at the Detroit Auto Show, one of the new models was fully revealed today at the Geneva Motor Show: the Prius+ full-hybrid MPV. Newly designed from the ground up and set to go on [...]
On Jan. 10, the Prius Goes Plural voting campaign asked the public to help Toyota decided what the plural nomenclature of Prius should be. Well, the votes are in and the general public has selected ‘Prii’ as the preferred plural term for Prius. “With 25 percent of the votes, Prii becomes the word not only [...]
