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2010 Toyota Prius spied

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Toyota is testing the third generation Prius. Photos we managed to get are not in best quality as the car was too far and there was no way to get closer.

What we can already tell that Toyota stais true to the current shape. Rumor is though that the car is little wider and shorter than the current Prius.

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Video: Swedes build the worlds most extreme Toyota Prius

Probably the most extreme work on Prius we have seen so far was the Prius Convertible.Now three Swedes have built the most extreme Toyota Prius in the world!

This custom built hybrid took them around 1000 hours and 1 million Swedish Krons(around €105,000). The result? Most extreme hybrid ricer!

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Worldwide Prius Sales Top 1 Million Mark

Toyota announced today that worldwide cumulative sales of the Toyota Prius-the world’s first mass-produced gasoline/electric hybrid vehicle-have passed the 1 million mark, with approximately 1,028,000 units sold as of the end of April this year*1. Currently, Prius sales are robust in more than 40 countries and regions, particularly in Japan and North America.

Based on sales figures collected up to April 30, 2008, TMC believes that Prius vehicles worldwide have contributed to a reduction in CO2 emissions (considered a cause of global warming) by producing approximately 4.5 million tons*2 less CO2 when compared with gasoline-powered vehicles in the same class and of similar size and driving performance.

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Something You don’t See Everyday: Owner Takes Prius Topless

According to the owner it took approximately 6 months to complete all the work. It is, to our and his knowledge the only convertible Prius ever done. It was stripped to the bare metal, (interior) and every piece of the interior was removed and a complete custom rebuild, piece by piece) was undertaken by Newport Engineering in California.

The side air bags had to be removed and the side interior moldings had to be rebuilt to allow the frame to set properly.

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Who needs a Prius if you can have Audi A3 1.9 TDIe

It’s become something of an article of faith among the mainstream media in this country that the only environmentally friendly automobile is Toyota’s Prius.
True, the Prius, with itscomplicated and expensive hybrid powertrain, is an impressive piece-innovative and accomplished enough, in fact, to be named our 2004 Car of the Year. But I’ve recently driven a car that beats the Prius for driver appeal and does just as good a job of saving the planet.

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Jim Press: Prius was 100% subsidized by Japanese government

Chrysler co-President Jim Press is stirring things up at his former employer, Toyota Motor Corp., by saying development of the Prius hybrid was subsidized by the Japanese government.

In a BusinessWeek story published Thursday, March 24, Press said that when he was at Toyota, “The Japanese government paid for 100 percent of the development of the battery and hybrid system that went into the Toyota Prius.”

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Prius fighter: details about Honda’s new global hybrid

Honda has been tightly guarding the details about its next hybrid, which the company is introducing next year. Even top U.S. engineers have not seen photographs of the vehicle.

Until recently, just about the only confirmed information about the vehicle is that Honda expects to sell 200,000 units per year—as part of its larger goal to make hybrids comprise 10 percent of Honda sales by 2012. But details are starting to emerge.

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Toyota Prius limo

Someone in Canada has built a Prius limo.
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