Toyota's "Prius Team" was nice enough to recently post some special preview details on the 2011 Prius right here in the PriusChat forums. The big news? Well, there really isn't any. Toyota will now offer the Black exterior paint color with the Bisque interior color option. This was not an option available on the 2010 Prius, but Toyota has added it based on customer feedback. No other color changes.
The Prius is also receiving some slight changes in nomenclature. The first is with the Intelligent Parking Assist system. That nifty system will be renamed to "Advanced Parking Guidance System" (APGS) to follow the name it is called across the rest of the world. Eagle-eyed PriusChatters may have already noticed that the IPA system is referred to as the APGS system in the Prius manual.
The other name change will be switching model names from the current Roman numerals to being spelled out (Prius IV becomes Prius Four). This change is being made to "reduce some additional confusion out there", according to Erica Gartsbeyn from Prius Product Marketing.
Pricing and timing of the 2011 Prius will be announced soon in Toyota's newsroom. If history tells us anything, expect the 2011s to hit dealerships in September or October with a price increase of a couple hundred bucks over the 2010.
Read the full post from Toyota's Prius Team in this PriusChat Forum thread: MY11 Prius
