Would love to see a plug-in hybrid, even if the battery was 6kWh or enough to be packaged inside.

How on earth are you kids still harping on with this game? It pales compared to IV and is hardly a reflection of what we hoped to see develop since 2013...

I would love this car too, if it wasn’t for the fact that it’s strictly a single motor (of a not very good 40-somethig horsepower) parallel hybrid like the old Honda IMAs. The low power motor isn’t enough to regen on steeper hills and can max out and swap in favour for the hydraulics. The engine can’t generate…

Unless it’s a prius or other electrified vehicle, one of them is normally the battery heat exhaust.

*cough* Are Americans now talking about other countries’ tastes?
- sorry, from ireland here.

The one thing I’ve learned driving a Prius (2007 touring - the stock is objectively worse) is that the steering wheel demands early turning in a smooth progression. Driving 101, huh? Letting it sway and dig in on the outside first and then it can hold on more than you’d expect. But it can’t be darted or you’ll…

I liked the prius when it was uncool to say so. Seriously, I did though. However I never really caught on to the jdm slam crowd, for any car..

It’s a weird, uncomfortable but heart warming thing to see even Jalopnik call the Prius ‘cool’. Since the global financial crash it has been for a decade for a growing number of…

‘Saved’ assuming Mitsubishi is no more. Let’s just get this right here. We had the Colt (and ForFour) for some time in Europe, they didn’t catch us on fire. It was a respectable choice, but one that slipped off the tip of our minds so often.

Seriously guys, Jalop, everyone inbetween. We all have a soft spot for Mitsu,…

We must admit, if this was a Kia Soul EV, this would be a much bigger story that you could only be under a rock to not have heard of.

It would be far better as a full EV, or with the new Insight drivetrain.

It needed more than a hybrid system, it most definitely needed a step up like a plug-in. Or at the very least a ‘double battery’ in parallel for capacity or series for oomph, but these limitations are strictly down to Toyota’s views on furthering electrification, not on the hybrid itself.

But it’s like taking the hydro suspension out of a Citroen, is this still a Prius, let alone improved?

Hahaha!

Nah, nah.. I got this.

I’m seeing wagons and I have to agree. It’s a crying shame you stopped receiving any hatchback-based wagons. The Auris Hybrid estate is basically a Prius but more practical in a 2019 ‘‘Corolla’’ estate body. It would make the Prius V redundant however.

lol, I love it, but over here at least, the Punto the drug dealer’s car! Especially in red, yellow and black, stock or GT.

But Mitsu killed it from the US market last year, although it technically close off new production to the states in 2015. 

As an EV enthusiast, I can’t help but not say ‘Aw, how adorable’ at it all. The C-Zero and iOn are grand, I loved them too, but when they arrived in full production 7 years ago they were already 2008-9 technology on a 2005 kei-car steel chassis. It was bad for 2011 standards, when 80 miles range and +€34,000 was…

slow *moving. ‘‘Looping’’ oh jesus, how did I leave that out?

If it was a slow looping lap then it was most definitely a test of some sort. Could’ve been a battery output test, or even testing the engine when it restarts with zero battery assist. In normal hybrids forcing to drain the battery will make the go into an intense parallel generator mode (a lot like a diesel-electric)…