Toyota Prius News
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Toyota's Prius and Prius Prime get more powerful and more efficient with their latest redesign.
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Jay Leno thinks the Toyota Prius is a future classic
Will first-generation Toyota Prius models cross auction blocks for big bucks in the future? Car enthusiast and comedian Jay Leno believes so. Leno has a valid argument for why some cars turn into collector items. Foremost, it's what a particular generation grew up with, he told Business Insider in...
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American Racing Headers is building a Hellcat-powered Prius because why not?
This is America: the land of the free, and the home of big displacement engines with more power than ever will be truly necessary. Can there ever really be enough power? That's a question for another day. American Racing Headers is will truly embody the "too much power is not enough" school of car...
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2017 Toyota Prius Prime preview
Toyota's redesigned Prius is ready for prime time—if prime time means 22 miles of electric-only range. Replacing last year's Prius Plug-In Hybrid, the new Prius Prime is more than just a Prius with an electric charging station outlet. Those figures are supported by what Toyota anticipates...
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2017 Toyota Prius Prime plug-in hybrid promises 22 miles electric range, 120 mpge: Live photos and video
An improved hybrid system thanks largely to an upgraded battery has yielded big benefits for the most fuel-efficient, and the only plug-in, version of Toyota’s latest Prius. The 2017 Prius Prime, which debuted today at the 2016 New York Auto Show, takes over where last year’s Prius...
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2016 Toyota Prius revealed, promises up to 55 mpg combined
The all-new 2016 Toyota Prius made a splashy debut in Las Vegas overnight, levitating above the stage before being driven into the spotlight. But despite the fanfare details were few and far between in Sin City. ALSO SEE: 2017 Bentley Bentayga Is World’s Most Powerful, Most Luxurious SUV...
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The all-new, fourth-generation Toyota Prius is due to be unveiled at a special event in Las Vegas on September 8, ahead of a possible world debut at the 2015 Frankfurt Auto Show one week later. We’ve been spying camouflaged prototypes for more than a year but now completely undisguised versions of the new hybrid have been spotted. The latest photos show two examples in what appears to be a cargo plane plus a third, red car taken while on an official photo shoot. Two of the photos were posted to the Prius Club Malaysia Facebook page (via World Car Fans) and reveal in great detail the...
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2016 Toyota Prius Spy Shots And Video
The fourth-generation Toyota Prius has been spotted testing in prototype form, revealing a shape that worryingly is starting to look a bit like Toyota’s ungainly Mirai fuel cell car. Looking at this prototype, which was spotted testing in the United States, we can clearly see that the new...
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2010 Lexus HS 250h And Toyota Prius Models Involved In Recall
Toyota has issued a voluntary recall on certain versions of its Lexus HS 250h and Prius hybrid vehicles due to an issue with the cars’ brakes. The recall affects all 2010 model year HS 250h and Prius hybrids, of which there are approximately 87,000 units in the U.S. The affected vehicles are...
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Driving Tip: You Can't Ignore A Flat Tire For Long
Life isn’t always fair, and things don’t always go as planned. Drive long enough, and you’ll eventually get a flat tire, likely at the worst possible moment. Fly frequently enough, and sooner or later you’re going to miss a flight or two. Sometimes, you’ll do both in...
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Toyota Prius Super GT Car Burns In Testing
Last December we brought you the unlikely news that the Toyota Prius had been approved for competition in Japan’s Super GT series. The Prius was named as a replacement for the Toyota Corolla Axio, and was set to run in the GT300 class, which restricts output to 300 horsepower. If you get the...
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Toyota Prius To Campaign In Japan's Super GT Series: Report
A new report has Toyota campaigning a Prius hybrid in next year's Super GT series.
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Unless you're a rich businessman or lazy teenager, you probably see cars as objects to drive, rather than be chauffeured in. A Toyota Prius available to test at the upcoming Tokyo Motor Show might make people think a little differently, as an example of the hybrid will be giving show-goers rides around entirely autonomously, says Popular Science. Toyota has been working on its autonomous technology for some time now and the Prius at the Tokyo show will be a very public demonstration of how the technology is progressing. Known as the AVOS (Automatic Vehicle Operating System) the Prius can be...
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Prius C, FCV-R And FT-EV III Highlight Toyota’s Stand In Tokyo
Tomorrow is the first official press day of the 2011 Los Angeles Auto Show, but there’s another major automotive event taking place this month, the prestigious 2011 Tokyo Motor Show, which kicks off on November 30. Not surprisingly, information on all the new model and concept debuts is...
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Solar Tech Could Be Improved Thanks To 13-Year Old Student
Solar panel technology has, thus far, not been of much use for automobiles. You may be able to specify a small solar panel on the 2011 Nissan Leaf or 2012 Toyota Prius, but it's mainly used to top up the energy needed to power accessories such as your air conditioning or in-car entertainment. As a...
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2012 Toyota Prius Plug-In Hybrid Revealed Ahead Of Frankfurt Debut
The 2012 Toyota Prius Plug-In Hybrid will make its official world debut at the 2011 Frankfurt Auto Show before going on sale early next year.
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We Have Aerodynamic Cars, Why Not Streamlined Big Rigs?
Think automotive aerodynamics and you'll either think of aerodynamic components for reducing lift or increasing downforce, or you'll think of streamlined, low-resistance vehicles like the 2011 Toyota Prius. Car designers have a tough job to combine these features in your typical road car - ideally...
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7 High Tech Options, The Cheapest Cars You'll Find Them In
One of the benefits of the rapid pace of technological advancement is that economies of scale are achieved relatively easily. Sounds boring, but this means that the high-technologies of a few years ago have already found themselves in much more affordable cars. Once this meant heated rear screens...
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It's enough to make the car enthusiast's skin crawl. Visions of autonomous cars making their way along the highway while the occupants go about their daily business. If you love driving and cars, handing over control of your car to a machine is like handing over a child. Bill Reinert, a mechanical engineer who led the Toyota Prius design team, sees driverless cars as part of our future though. When someone who made the disruptive hybrid technology mainstream makes predictions about the future, you're inclined to take notice. Having passengered in an automated Prius between Mountain View and...
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Plug-n-Play LED Lighting On The Way, Gets Brighter, Cheaper
If you spend a lot of time driving you won't have failed to notice the distinctive shape of high intensity LED daytime running lights on some modern vehicles. As for LED tail-lights, those are even more common. Only a small selection of vehicles features entirely LED-based headlights though...
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BMW Serves Up Pandora For All Its 2011 Models
Like their MINI cousins before them, the 2011 BMW lineup will have access to Pandora, the music-streaming app that's colonizing car audio systems from Ford to Toyota. Bringing Pandora service into the cars is as simple as downloading it to its host iPhone. Once it's installed and configured--and...
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Young, Thin, & Popular: 2011 Chevrolet Volt Is Hollywood's Next Superstarlet
Hollywood is so fickle. One minute, Neve Campbell is all the rage, and the next thing you know, she's doing guest spots on Medium. (Yes, apparently it's still on.) The same rules apply to cars. Not so long ago, Priuses (or Prii) were all the rage; now, they're yesterday's news, upstaged by the...
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2011 Detroit Auto Show: Toyota Prius C Concept
The Prius family just gained its first new member, the Prius V, and a preview of its second: the Prius C. As V is for versatility, C is for city (though compact also works), and the Prius C delivers. Slotting four seats into a small B-segment body, the Prius C Concept is an outline for what to...
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Bugatti Veyron Voted Worst Environmental Offender By EPA
Every year the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) produces a list of the best and worst cars for fuel efficiency and not surprisingly this year’s worst offender is the 2011 Bugatti Veyron--a car fitted with a quad-turbocharged 16-cylinder engine displacing no less than 8.0-liters. This...
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