Featured The all-new 2027 Corolla threatens the Gen 5 (and Gen 6) Prius

Would it still be as cheap is they put a brand-new engine in it not put in any other Toyota?

The Corolla already starts at about $25,000. That's a lot of money. If it ends up costing about the same or more than a Prius at around $30,000, especially if it's smaller, then maybe it wouldn't compete.

 

Cannibalize your brand or let someone else do it.

 

Anything on emission controls?

 

looks like something an 18 year old might want, or a midlife crisis

 

I bet the one in all black doesn't look as stupid as the one in gray and black, which literally looks like two different color cars were put together and the lines that creates look incompetent with no sense of flow or clarity to the design, just uncoordinated design chaos.

 

Or someone wanting a Chinese EV.
Toyota bZ3 - Wikipedia

 

The Prius might be going away for good.

If everything Toyota is now a hybrid, why keep the Prius?

One reason that the Prius had been different, other than being a hybrid when everything else wasn't, was its shape. But the problem I see with car shapes is as cars are pushed to being more and more aerodynamic, they also start to take on the same exact shape. Everything is becoming the Prius in shape. Even SUVs are becoming more and more Prius-like with the push for coupé SUVs like the Model Y.

 

There will be a hatchback and wagon, as there is now. North America won't get the wagon for fear of hurting Rav sales. Like the current hatchback, I expect the new one to be a more utilitarian shape than sporty in the Prius.

I expect the next Prius to be plug in only if it happens here. Though it could end up like the Aqua.

I think it is more a case of regulation costs than them messing up. Making bigger wheels just an option means cutting features to reduce weight along side adding the wheels, or risk requiring another set of testing for the added wheels alone.

 

Whar hatchback?

 

oh well