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Old 04-24-2009, 01:18 PM   #1
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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.
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Old 04-24-2009, 01:29 PM   #2
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Default Re: 2010 Prius Hopping A Slow Boat From Japan Starting Today

What's a "quality unit"?
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Old 04-24-2009, 01:43 PM   #3
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Default 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.
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Old 04-24-2009, 01:45 PM   #4
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And the excitement grows...
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Old 04-24-2009, 03:06 PM   #5
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Won't be long now.
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Old 04-24-2009, 06:32 PM   #6
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Default Re: 2010 Prius Hopping A Slow Boat From Japan Starting Today

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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.

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Default 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?
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Old 04-24-2009, 09:27 PM   #8
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What's a "quality unit"?
I'm guessing they are the "priority orders" that were placed via PC a few months back...
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Default 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.
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Old 04-25-2009, 09:35 PM   #10
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If this ship gets hijacked, I'm authorizing the use of deadly force
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