Sneak Peek of the New Prius - Picture 2

What do you think they will show next? I want to see some exterior.

 

Man, these guys are a tease. Still, nice to see Toyota dabbling in the viral marketing.

I'd have to vote sunroof too. Typically the dash and door buttons are all darker colors, and the upper buttons like the map lights are lighter. One more reason to suspect that this button is higher up, which makes me think sunroof.

Rob

 

Clearly this button controls the cover for the soon to be Prius-standard Mr Fusion. Press the open button, toss in some stale beer and banana peels, press the close button, and you're good for another 1500 miles.

 

It's to open / close the convertible roof...new convertible Prius??

 

Hmm... on second thought, if the button is for the hatch, then there shouldn't be a Close option.

Hmmm... folding mirrors???

 

How about the window blinds to keep the solar heat out?

 

Are you sure? I got the impression it was for opening & closing worm-holes. After all, being able to traverse space/time would use less gas.

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That isn't a sunroof switch.

They look like this now...

 

my lexus has open/close for sunroof, as well as 2 buttons for tilt... however why are those two buttons differently shaped? Why use that for sunroof? Makes no sense... also white shiny plastic on overhead compartment?

Hm, I still cant think of anything else except sunroof... mirrors have one button for retract that is pushed in... fuel door wouldnt have close... power hatch in small car? makes no sense and it would have only close.

 

Don't you guys know anything - it's for the ejection seat hatch.

 

what about it being some compartment? that opens/closes... what should you be able to open AND close?

 

definetly could be some kind of hydraulic button that opens/closes compartment... thats why buttons are so weird - it is either open OR close, and when you push on open, then close pops up. Something similar can be found on Rav4 or RX, except it is sinlge button that says Open/Close (and it does sometime confuse people).

It could be open/close for sunglases compartment? That would explain the color?

 

That doesn't look like a switch at all, it looks like a door. It's got some fairly large gaps around the edges, and looks like it's made of one piece. My guess is that there's a pivot in the middle such than when you push on the bulged part the whole thing pivots inwards 90 degrees exposing an outlet of some sort with the part that says "close" now perpendicular to the car and parallel to the floor. Flip it down to close. But a door to what?

Based on the gloss of the paint, I'm going to say it's outside. Based on the different textures between the "door" and the surrounding area, I'm going to say the door is metal and the rest is plastic. Given all that and the fact that it slopes down and in, I'm going to hazard a guess that it's located on the underside flashing of either the front or rear bumper. Using the EXIF information contained in the jpg itself to view that at actual size, it looks *just* big enough to cover a standard 110 outlet.

Charging port? Maybe?

 

yea, looks to be a access port for a ????? .. but in that color.. looks cream... a new color ???

My guess is port on the Plug in Prius coming 2nd qtr 2010.

 

I don't think it's a lift gate. For lexus and every other model, they tend to have 1 single button for power gates. hold to open, hold to close.

i think it's the sun roof... or some kind of vent... *shrug*

 

I'm pretty sure it's the controls to get access to the dilithium crystals.

How else are you going to feather the matter / anti-matter reaction?

 

I think it's somehow connected to the plug. Perhaps it will be how you access it.

 

Seems obvious. Wing deployment control switch. A la Chitty:

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