2010 Prius Hopping A Slow Boat From Japan Starting Today

**Danny** · 04-24-2009, 01:18 PM

A new story entry has been added:

2010 Prius Hopping A Slow Boat From Japan Starting Today

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That's right, ladies and gentlemen. Today the first set of 2010 Prius units hopped a boat out of Japan and are headed out to the rest of the world. According to Toyota, the first units are the ones shown in these photos and are mostly "quality units". But "we're hoping some of the very first production units will make it on if they're headed to the destination of that boat's port of entry.

paprius4030 · 04-24-2009, 01:29 PM

What's a "quality unit"?

HTMLSpinnr · 04-24-2009, 01:43 PM

I'm going to hedge a bet that the "quality units" will be sent to the NHSTA and insurance co's for crash ratings.

Paradox · 04-24-2009, 01:45 PM

And the excitement grows...

fredthepostman · 04-24-2009, 03:06 PM

Won't be long now.

Prius Team · 04-24-2009, 06:32 PM

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Originally Posted by HTMLSpinnr

I'm going to hedge a bet that the "quality units" will be sent to the NHSTA and insurance co's for crash ratings.

Good guess, but not quite. Actually we often produce hundreds of "quality check" units. They just go through special checks to ensure top Toyota quality - and they end up being sold just like every other car. Once the manufacturing engineers are satisfied everything is looking good on the line, we start building "official" normal production units.

Doug Coleman
Prius Product Manager
Toyota Motor Sales, USA

a priori · 04-24-2009, 07:30 PM

Does anyone know why some of these cars have one "eye"-bolt peeking through the front bumper, while others have two of them?

PriusCrazy · 04-24-2009, 09:27 PM

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Originally Posted by paprius4030

What's a "quality unit"?

I'm guessing they are the "priority orders" that were placed via PC a few months back...

bedrock8x · 04-25-2009, 04:27 AM

Quality units are the ones built meeting the customer shippable quality.
There are alway things that will went wrong during the pilot run of autos like misalignment of parts or painting blemishes with the production parts.

tochatihu · 04-25-2009, 09:35 PM

If this ship gets hijacked, I'm authorizing the use of deadly force

04-24-2009, 01:29 PM	#2
paprius4030 Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Pocono's, Pa. Posts: 1,296 My Car: 2008 Prius Model: Package: #2 Thanks: 1 Thanked 8 Times in 6 Posts Friends: 1	Re: 2010 Prius Hopping A Slow Boat From Japan Starting Today What's a "quality unit"?

04-24-2009, 01:43 PM	#3
HTMLSpinnr Gen III Forums Moderator Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Surprise, AZ (Phoenix) Posts: 4,072 My Car: 2010 Prius Model: IV Package: Solar Roof Thanks: 215 Thanked 437 Times in 196 Posts Friends: 18	Re: 2010 Prius Hopping A Slow Boat From Japan Starting Today I'm going to hedge a bet that the "quality units" will be sent to the NHSTA and insurance co's for crash ratings.

04-24-2009, 01:45 PM	#4
Paradox Prius Enthusiast Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: SI, NY Posts: 2,114 My Car: 2010 Prius Model: V Package: Adv. Technology Thanks: 21 Thanked 298 Times in 179 Posts Friends: 9	Re: 2010 Prius Hopping A Slow Boat From Japan Starting Today And the excitement grows...

04-24-2009, 03:06 PM	#5
fredthepostman Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: boothwyn pa Posts: 404 My Car: Prius On Order Model: III Package: N/A Thanks: 79 Thanked 4 Times in 4 Posts Friends: 7	Re: 2010 Prius Hopping A Slow Boat From Japan Starting Today Won't be long now.

04-24-2009, 07:30 PM	#7
a priori Canonus Curiosus Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Chicagoland (West) Posts: 2,663 My Car: 2010 Prius Model: V Package: Adv. Technology Thanks: 150 Thanked 297 Times in 181 Posts Friends: 18	Re: 2010 Prius Hopping A Slow Boat From Japan Starting Today Does anyone know why some of these cars have one "eye"-bolt peeking through the front bumper, while others have two of them?

04-25-2009, 04:27 AM	#9
bedrock8x Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: California Posts: 589 My Car: Other Hybrid Model: Package: N/A Thanks: 3 Thanked 13 Times in 10 Posts Friends: 2	Re: 2010 Prius Hopping A Slow Boat From Japan Starting Today Quality units are the ones built meeting the customer shippable quality. There are alway things that will went wrong during the pilot run of autos like misalignment of parts or painting blemishes with the production parts.

04-25-2009, 09:35 PM	#10
tochatihu Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Kunming Yunnan China Posts: 2,408 My Car: 2001 Prius Model: Package: Pioneer #1 Thanks: 1 Thanked 38 Times in 38 Posts Friends: 14	Re: 2010 Prius Hopping A Slow Boat From Japan Starting Today If this ship gets hijacked, I'm authorizing the use of deadly force

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