On Motor Show in Detroit is presented the new conceptual car of the Toyota Motor — Prius C. As say in the communique of a Japanese brand, this prototype is a harbinger of a compact hybrid hatchback which appears in a batch production in first half of 2012.
2012 Toyota Prius C
According to representatives of Toyota Motor, the small hybrid hatchback is aimed at young men for whom is needed — the harmless and dynamical city car with spacious interior, but economic and accessible at the price is. The detailed information on this car yet is not informed. In the company only specify that the novelty receives "all current technologies as in 2011 Toyota Prius (coupe)".
Earlier on the Detroit Auto Show also presented the compact van — Toyota Prius V Concept. This car has the wheelbase "stretched" on 78 mm and the big luggage compartment (971 litres). Besides, for transportation large-sized a prophetic back of rear seats it is possible to combine. A power-plant at the car same, as well as at usual Prius: the 98-strong gasoline engine in volume of 1,8 litres, the electromotor power — 80HP.
Toyota Motor presented on Detroit Motor Show compact minivan Prius which received an additional prefix V. According to representatives of the Japanese manufacturer, the novelty have a 50% more place in a baggage compartment, than at usual Prius.
Toyota Prius: from Hybrid to Minivan
The novelty overall length — 4,615 mm, width — 1,775 mm, the height — 1,574 mm, and reaches the size of a wheelbase of 2,778 mm. It on 115, 30, 74 and 78 mm accordingly more than at usual Toyota Prius Coupe. Volume of a luggage compartment of a compact minivan of Toyota Prius V — 971 litre. Besides, it is possible to prolong a loading platform for transportation of large-sized cargoes, completely combining a back of an armchair of the front passenger.
Also, a new minivan Toyota Prius have a new central extension housing. The form of the extension housing first of all changed, the lever of a gear box and the starting engine operation button have been transferred hardly above, the new block of climate control, other air vents of system of ventilation, and also new multimedia system by Entune with advanced navigation.
In the technical plan the compact minivan differs nothing from a Prius hatchback. According to the manufacturer, in a city cycle fuel consumption the compact minivan makes 5,6 litres/100 km, and in mixed — 5,8 litres.
In the US car market of sale of a new Toyota Prius begin since summer of current year.
Toyota Motor prepares for start of new hybrid minivan Prius.
New minivan Toyota Prius
It will be the new car first completely has added in a series of hatchbacks Prius. New release of minivan Prius will begin in 2011. Also, Toyota aspires to keep cost of hybrid minivan Toyota Prius at level of cost of standard minivans.
Hybrid minivan Prius can become the first car by Toyota which will be equipped li-ionic by the accumulator of own working out. The car will be equipped by three rows of seats and sliding doors. Potentially Toyota Prius can contain to seven persons and it will be positioned in the car market, as the family car.
Hybrid car Toyota Prius most sold in the world has received the sports version. The Concept car under name Prius G debuted on the Tokyo motor show.
Hybrid car Toyota Prius G
The hatchback power-plant remained invariable — a basis the 1,8-l 4-cylinder petrol engine power makes of 99HP and the auxiliary electromotor. Nevertheless hybrid dynamic characteristics managed to be improved at the expense of serious work with aerodynamics: Prius G has received new bumpers and lateral footboards. The strengthened chassis and sports brake system ADVICS help the concept car to remain operated even in impassability.
Sport hatchback Toyota Prius
Toyota Prius G it's allocated also with design elements: LED-inserts in headlights, a dual exhaust pipe, 18-inch disks, aluminium pedals and a sports wheel. According to Toyota, in Japan sales of a serial sports hybrid start in the middle of 2010.
Company ASI has officially declared creation of a new brand under which tuning accessories for hybrid cars and first of all for Prius will be issued.
ASI Green for Green Cars
The manufacturer of tuning components company ASI has extended the message in which it is spoken about new mark of components — ASI Green. As it is possible to guess, proceeding only from the name, it is a question of tuning of "green" cars, the main thing from which, in view of special popularity and sales volumes remains Toyota Prius.
The aerodynamic bumper though for certain it is not known is already developed for the Japanese hybrid, whether can improve a bumper aerodynamics of the car and thus lower the fuel expense, or the styling was the creation purpose only. The package structure included the modified bumpers and overlays on thresholds.
Besides, it is offered to individualise salon by means of sports armchairs, furnish of the forward console and to that of the similar components which till now have been not extended among hybrid cars. Certainly, on a choice many variants of exclusive wheels from catalogues of several manufacturers, and also own workings out are offered.Besides external tuning ASI Green assumes also technical improvement. For Prius the reprogrammed blocks of management of a hybrid power-plant are already accessible.
ASI Green it's full tuning determination
The company asserts, that Prius though is a priority at present, becomes completely not unique object of the appendix of efforts of designers and engineers. ASI Green means tuning of "green" cars as those and already in the near future promises to make some novelties, a detail about which does not open.
World motorcar giant Toyota Motor Corp. Will make new, already the third car under the account, working on gasoline and an electricity, and will begin sales in since December of this year in the internal car market of Japan.
New hybrid Toyota SAI
New hybrid car SAI becomes already to the third under the account hybrid model Toyota after release Prius in May of this year and Lexus HS 250h in July.
The new hybrid is a car a sedan with volume of the engine 2,4 litres. The fuel expense makes one litre of gasoline on 23 kilometres that is comparable with usual midget cars. At the price of Toyota SAI should take a median place between Prius ($20,000US) and elite Lexus HS 250h ($44,000US). The price of model SAI in a base complete set makes about $37,000US.Sales of the new hybrid car will begin on December, 7th this year in all four dealer networks Toyota.
Hybrid popularity
Hybrid cars and, first of all, Toyota Prius use the big popularity in Japan. This car became the leader of sales in Japan following the results of six months (April-September), all for this time has been sold more than 116,000 cars. In many respects it is connected with entered by the government of Japan indemnifications and tax privileges at purchase of harmless cars.
Tuners not often undertake operational development of hybrid cars, preferring more powerful cars, but recently studio nevertheless began to pay more than attention to hybrids, for example, on Toyota Prius last generation.
Hybrid Toyota Prius by TOMMYKAIRA
The sad design of an ex-terrier hybrid Toyota Prius does not cause enthusiastic emotions in potential buyers who first of all appreciate profitability in the car. But after in studio TOMMYKAIRA for the car have developed body-kit, Toyota Prius can safely apply for a rank of the legislator of a fashion in the segment.
Toyota Prius concept 2010
In studio for hybrid model have created at once some variants of stylings-packages, but all of them include same: an aggressive forward bumper with additional optics, the forward spoiler, a new lattice of a radiator. Many details are executed from carbon. A special glamour to the car give a new exhaust system with four branch pipes and 18-inch disks of various design.
Cost body-kit yet does not disclose studio TOMMYKAIRA.
Japanese tuning company Wald International has published the first image of hybrid Toyota Prius of the 3rd generation in version Sports Line Black Bison Edition.
Toyota Prius Black Bison
The detailed information on the future tuning novelty of studio plans to promulgate in the near future. While it is possible to judge the car only on a photo. The car will fill up a ruler of "Black bisons" from Wald International into which such models as Toyota Land Cruiser 200 already enter, Lexus RX350 and Toyota Alphard/Vellfire Sports Line Black Bison Edition.
Japanese tuning company Tommy Kaira has presented the own version of popular hybrid car Toyota Prius.
Hybrid-tuning Toyota Prius
Till now completion of powerful sports models Nissan and Subaru was studio Tommy Kaira primary activity. But recently more and more popular there are economic cars among which hybrids use the greatest demand. In Tommy Kaira have developed for market Toyota Prius best seller an original tuning variant.
Toyota prepares new updating hybrid Prius — in a body coupe. Already there are even preliminary sketches of a novelty.
Prius coupe
Under the preliminary information, the design of coupe Prius will be developed by Italian studio Pininfarina or Italdesign. As to technical characteristics, most likely, the novelty will be equipped with the same 1,8-litre engine used in Prius.
New details concerning working out Toyota Prius Coupe appear in a number of the Japanese mass-media.
New Toyota Prius
Officially Toyota Motor still does not deny, but also does not confirm them. The 1st information on working out Prius with a coupe body has appeared several months ago, but since then practically any official comment in this occasion from Toyota Motor has not arrived. New data, referring to own sources, informs edition Best Car. Affirms, that working out of appearance of the car is charged one of world famous Italian design studio. To which — does not know, but as the most probable candidates are called Pininfarina, Italdesign and Giugiaro.
If the given information corresponds to the validity desire Toyota to make a novelty as much as possible attractive easily to explain. Prius it is necessary to compete to a coupe body directly with Honda CR-Z — a sports hybrid which will enter the market in the beginning of the next year, that is for certain earlier, than Toyota. However it not strongly confuses the company, after all hybrid Honda Insight also left in sale for some months before new generation Prius, however last has easily restored behind itself(himself) leadership, hardly leaving in sale.
The engine for Prius Coupe, most likely, will be borrowed at hybrid Lexus HS250h. In any case, the most suitable petrol engine the edition names 4-cylinder 2,4-litre instead of 1,8-litre standard for Prius.
Hybrid cars Honda Insight and Toyota Prius III have successfully finished a series of crash-tests in America. Together with other small car, Kia Soul, they were included into the list of the most safe novelties of year. And Prius was highly appreciated in absentia — following the results of viewing by experts of a videoclip.
Crash Test: Toyota Prius
Authoritative American organisation Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) has decided to repeat a series crash-tests. Taking into account crisis, experts took for tests cars with the low expense of fuel: hybrids Honda Insight, Toyota Prius and compact Kia Soul. All three models have successfully sustained tests and have received a title «Top Safety Pick».
Crash-tests IIHS include a head-on collision, lateral blow and blow behind. To receive the highest point, the model should not only sustain "well" all three collisions, but also have the electronic control of stability. As informs New York Times, the electronic control of stability is available in a standard complete set of all variants Soul and Prius. In a case with Insight this system is in a complete set of expensive models, for example EX, but is absent even as an option on a cheap variant LX.
As experts of the organisation declare, in a case with Prius they did not undertake at all to execute own crash-test. As the previous variants of this model have received at them good estimations, they were limited to that data and a videoclip about testing of the given model have requested of a motor-car manufacturer.
After video viewing, it has been decided to include model Toyota Prius in number of safe cars in absentia. However, he has noted, within a year employees of institute still will break pair of cars to check up objectivity given Toyota data.
During check Honda Insight experts have noticed, that at a head-on collision the doll head has hit about a lateral door therefore the pillow of the safety which have prevented blow about firm parts of the car has there and then worked. At lateral blow some risk of damages of edges, however other dangers was showed, experts have concluded, is not observed.
The head of the doll set in Prius, at a head-on collision has hit about the central rack of the car, however, as observers — "very poorly" assure. But, despite a safety pillow, the dummy head has strongly hit about a steering wheel. In Soul at a head-on collision the dummy has slightly touched with a head a frame of a lateral door, but, as well as in a case with Prius, has strongly hit about a wheel through a safety pillow. That specifies, according to experts, on possibility at the driver of serious traumas.
In the conclusion, despite an appreciation for the tested cars, experts of institute have declared: it is necessary to remember, that the received results are adequate at collision of the compact car with transport of the same weight category. If the car which has received the status «Top Safety Pick» faces with heavier and dimensional, let even is insignificant — results can appear much more serious.
Besides the mentioned novelties, the status of as much as possible safe cars have received this year Ford Focus Coupe, four-door Honda Civic and Mitsubishi Lancer (all models with the electronic control of stability), and also Scion xB, Subaru Impreza, Toyota Corolla and Volkswagen Rabbit.
Company Toyota has started working out hybrid coupe with the landing formula 2+2 which will make a competition to two-door car Honda CR-Z, whose sales in the Japanese car market will begin in February of next year.
Toyota Prius Coupe
The novelty will be constructed with use of units of model Prius: the compartment will receive the variant of a body truncated on 100 millimetres and the modernised version of a hybrid power-plant in which power 1,8-litre the petrol engine will increase to 134HP. Other components of a power-plant coupe Toyota — electromotors and accumulators feeding them — remain without changes.
The basic competitor of new model Toyota — coupe Honda CR-Z — will receive a platform of hybrid Insight and begins to be completed with a power-plant consisting of the 140-strong petrol motor in volume of 1,8 litre, the electric motor and the complete set of accumulators.
It is expected, that the debut hybrid coupe Toyota will take place in the middle of 2012. The prices for the car in Japan will begin from 2,2 million yens (about 16 thousand euro). Whether the novelty will be delivered in other countries — it is not known.
The most economic car — Toyota Prius the third generation!
The model has won first place in a rating of 10 most "green" cars of the year made by American analytical agency Kelley Blue Book.
Toyota Prius spends only 4,7 litres for 100 km in the mixed cycle. The second place is awarded Honda Insgiht 2010 modelling years with result of 5,7 litres on 100 km. Closes a three of leaders hybrid Ford Fusion 2010 which expense of fuel makes 6 litres on 100 km.
Also to ten have got:
Volkswagen Jetta Sportwagen TDI 2009 (6,9 l/100 of km) MINI Cooper 2009 (7,35 l/100 of km) Hybrid Ford Escape 2009 (7,4 l/100 of km) Honda Fit (Jazz) 2009 (7,6 l/100 of km) BMW 335d 2009 (8,7 l/100 of km) Hybrid Toyota Highlander 2009 (9 l/100 of km) Hybrid Chevrolet Silverado 2009 (11,2 l/100 of km).
Japanese corporation Toyota has cancelled the project on building in Europe joint with Isuzu Motor factory of diesel engines.
Prius by Toyota & Isuzu Motor
Two companies planned to organise the European manufacture of the 1,6-litre diesel unit by 2012. But now the motorcar giant management has decided to refuse accent on diesel models for the European car markets in favour of hybrid power-plants. Concern Toyota intends to expand export of hybrid Prius, and also to equip with hybrid units other European models, in particular Toyota Auris.
