Sneak Peek of the New Prius - Picture 2

Thank you! A kind word always goes a long way in that it has a residual effect. There seems to be a shortage of this commodity these days.

 

bossdowner,

Do you have any rear shot? I would love to see the hatch interior as well.

 

A third glovebox???

 

Sunroof

 

Bomb Hatch !

 

It's clearly a "Find your local crazy Italian" button. I'm back... and the car is more modded than ever... MUAHAHAHAHA...

I think I want one of these 2010 cars. Maybe. I like the sportier interior, but I'm a little irked. I don't want to give up all my unique customization to just nobody...

Hmmmmm...

~ dan ~

 

If the people from Toyota are reading these posts:

I HATE THE NEW CONSOLE!
It is mostly wasted space and makes the 'cockpit' cramped and claustrophobic.

The shifter is too big and is in the way of some controls. It is in the wrong place anyway, put it back on the dash. We rarely touch it, this is not a manual transmission vehicle. Or replace it with 5 buttons - Park, Drive, Neutral, Reverse, Braking Mode; it has no mechanical linkage and doesn't need a big knob.

The armrest is too short, and mostly unusable when slid back to use the cup holder hidden inside. (seen in other pictures of this abomination) The cup holder on the up slope makes the forward part of the cup 'up against a wall' and difficult to grasp.

The sloping display will have more glare than the current display.

It looks like there are round knobs on both top corners of the display. What do they do? Smooth, small, round knobs are NOT ergonomic.

I presume you did wind tunnel tests. However, the 'single point of contact with the wind' seems to have been lost with the bulbous nose bump.
Why are the headlights not flush with the 'nose' on the mid-line sides? That and the flat fronted DRL (I HOPE)/fog light things look like wind resistance to me.

Looks like access to the front of the radiator is lost with the short hood. I block my upper grill from the inside. Of course IF you designed an optional 'cold weather' automatic radiator blocking feature (PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE!!!) this doesn't matter.

 

OK, it is clearly a painted piece of bent metal which suggests it is NOT a rocker switch. And since it IS bent metal, I doubt it is an electrical switch.

BUT, since there is no way to get your fingers behind it, it must be a push lever of some sort so I guess it does 'rock' when you push the part that is outermost (Open in the picture).

I doubt it is for the plug in door, I presume that would work the same as the gas filler door - open from the inside, close by pushing the door closed from the outside.

If it is for a sun roof I REALLY REALLY hope they don't stuff it in specific packages because I REALLY REALLY don't LIKE sunroofs. They take up head room and I don't need extra light in the car.

 

I'm going to say that the Open/Close rocker switch is for a 'discovery panel' that slides back to expose the solar array in the roof.

For the other pic, the one that has the 'SOS' on it along with the icons for what appear to be the interior lights, I think that a forward toggle will activate the accident avoidance system when it's available.

 

I will be tacky and say 1. hood open/close 2. Hatch open /close
No sunroof - boo-hoo.

 

sunroof??