I think they would consider taking your order when they know actual release date. Salespeople do not know this information. One person who may have more infos about release date is Dianne in Carson, CA.
Gen IV is the 2015 model. There have been spy photos. Rumor is 60 MPG and all wheel drive, PIP will have better EV range
Here is a good read about the "real" savings of 60mpg over 50mpg. IMO 40mpg is where the end of big savings are. Especially for me since I drive 30K miles per year. MPG Illusion, gallons per mile, GPM, GPKM Travis
does anyone know when the information from Toyota or otherwise about 2014's and an chnages comes out?
If there are some minor changes, we'll be the first to hear about it on Priuschat. Two years ago the 'mid-cycle refresh' for 2012 were posted by Danny about midyear or so. There may or may not be changes for 2014, but if there are, I'll bet they are pretty minor. I've heard nothing definite about 4th gen Prius. Will they reveal it in a year to be released late 2014? Will it be revealed Jan 2015 for mid year release? bet it's too early for Toyota to know.
If Toyota follows the pattern of the gen 2, the next gen should come out in the middle of 2015 as a 2016.
My salesguy, a manager at Toyota Sunnyvale told me he's seen no changes for the 2014 Prius Two. Take it for what it's worth, he needs to sell 2013's now, but I doubt there will be changes for '14.
I'm interested in the v due to passenger seat space. I'm 6'3 and my knees touch the dash. I wonder if there'll be more space in the hatch gen IV ?
50 to 60 MPG would save you $350 bucks at 30k miles/year or $117 at only 10k miles/year. Guess saving money is relative to each individual. If I was kinda in the market for a car, it might be worth waiting for the new ones if you could. Here are my calculations with gas at $3.50/gal. MPG--30k/year--10k/year 30-----$3500-----$1167 40-----$2625-----$875 50-----$2100-----$700 60-----$1750-----$583
I have been reading that the new Prius will be all wheel drive, and would like to offer an idea of what that might mean. When you step on the brakes now, the motors at the front two wheels try and transform that forward energy into electrical energy, but often your need to stop overwhelms the ability of the motors to recapture the energy (the car needs to use brakes). If you had larger motors, or more motors, you could recapture more energy. If you put motors at the rear wheels, you could stop the car in the same distance, but possibly recapture more 'wasted' energy. The side effect would be that you now have motors at the rear wheels, and that in essence allows for a claim of four wheel drive. The four wheel drive is not an extra burden on the vehicle, it is in essence free, since their primary purpose is to recapture energy. Since you would only power these motors up through a low speed, they would not be always on, so no negative, and a ton of positive possibilities. Just a thought on how they might be doing four wheel drive.
