Toyota Prius 2016 Comprehensive Review | A car you can justify buying?

Toyota Prius 2016 Comprehensive Review | A car you can justify buying?

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Toyota's Prius is the most recognisable hybrid vehicle on our roads, but was very different in this fourth generation guise. There was a sleeker, more striking shape made possible by a stiffer, more sophisticated platform that helpws to substantially improve the handling. The hybrid powertrain was cleverer too, hence a set of efficiency returns that once more established this car's superiority over comparably-priced diesel rivals. In short, this car was thoroughly rejuvenated. Here, we check out earlier versions of this 'XW50'-series MK4 model as a used buy.

History
Welcome to the car that in its first two decades of life re-shaped the global automotive landscape, bringing hybrid technology into the mainstream market, while focusing the motor industry's attention on the way its products could be cleaner and more efficient. Toyota's Prius did all that and in this rejuvenated MK4 model guise, aimed to continue to set those standards, building upon quite a heritage of ingenuity.

To understand it, we need to turn the clock back to 1994 and a year in which the Toyota Motor Corporation made a decision aimed at fundamentally changing the way the world would drive. Engines, until that point exclusively fuel-based, could, the company decided, be developed in future to run with a combination of fuel and battery power. This so-called 'hybrid' solution would double efficiency, slash harmful emissions and create a whole new class of car. So was born the Prius, the world's very first mass-produced hybrid-powered vehicle, a model true to the Latin roots of its name in being very much 'ahead of its time'.

So familiar are we with hybrids today that it's easy to forget how ground-breaking this technology was two decades ago. It certainly took Toyota a while to get it right, early prototypes catching fire, failing to start or merely silently expiring after just a few miles of use. But Chief Engineer Takeshi Uchiyamada and his 'G-21' development team persevered and by early 1997, the very first Prius model was ready for launch, a dumpy rather awkward-looking saloon that suited the Japanese market but rather puzzled everyone else. Toyota lost money on every one sold - but they weren't put off. The world would have a hybrid: it was simply a matter of time. And public perception - which began to change when movie stars like Leonardo DiCaprio, Cameron Diaz and Harrison Ford all became Prius people. Drive this car and it was clear to all that you cared about your world and its future, a statement that, as it turned out, a lot of people wanted to make.



Writer - Jonathan Crouch

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