Gen 5 Manual: What Does Toyota Supply?

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    What does Toyota give you with the new car?
    A printed manual? In-car digital?
    My MINI has a digital manual on the car's infotainment display.
    I can see a manual coming in handy once in a while, lol, and I'm sure space is at a premium re: the 600-page manual.
     
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    I don't know about this latest generation, but in the past there's been a brick-sized printed owners' manual in the glove box.

    But you can also download it for free at techinfo.toyota.com (the owners' manuals and other glove-box items are outside the paywalled part) and carry it around on your phone, and take the brick out of the glove box so there's room to put stuff there. (And the manual on your phone is easier to search.)
     
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    I keep forgetting about the phone, lol.
     
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    I was hoping this was an announcement that Gen5 Prius was coming out with a clutch and manual transmission so you could burn rubber... But now I see this heresy of people talking about reading the owner's manual? Reading the owner's manual is not allowed, not ever!
     
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    It's mostly for figuring out what that strange symbol means when it appears, lol.
     
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    Owner's manual and AI is destroying the need for Priuschat!
     
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    You can get around that with a phone, too. Download the manual onto the phone and use the screen reader. Then technically you aren't reading it.
     
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    You're gonna ruin PriusChat saying stuff like this!
     
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    In the States you get Owner's Manual and Warranty and Maintenance Booklet in the glove box, for sure. And maybe a quick-start guide plus infotainment book?

    You can download most all of that in pdf format too, one source being the Toyota Tech Info website, under the Manuals Tab. I download the first year of each gen as a rule, just to see what's happening.

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    I usually get rid of it around year 6 or 7 to free up space in the glove box after not reading it after the first month or so