2011 Toyota Prius Minivan

[MadDog70]

We've been hearing the rumors for over a year, and it's now looking increasingly likely that Toyota is getting ready to launch a new hybrid minivan that will wear the Prius nameplate. If true, this would be the first completely new vehicle added to the Prius stable, where it would join the well-known hatchback sometime in 2011.

 

According to Reuters (which is citing the Japanese Nikkei), this new Prius hybrid minivan may be the first such vehicle from Toyota equipped with an in-house developed lithium ion battery pack. The three-row vehicle, which we can only presume would also have sliding doors, would potentially seat up to seven people, expanding Toyota's hybrid technology further into the family-use market.

 

No other details are available other than the notion that Toyota would like to keep the price close to that of standard minivans currently on the market. Stay tuned for more as we hear it.

Edited April 17, 2010 by MadDog70

[Tansrb]

most importantly, can stop not?!

[HOUSENUMBER]

yucks how i hate those hybrid body shape... expect for the CRZ

[Tomasulu]

i thought we are supposed to like concept designs?

[5936]

See front See back, doesn't look loke a minivan.

[Wishcumstrue]

i thought we are supposed to like concept designs?

 

yes that blue concept is called Hybrid-X.

 

The mostly likely one is much uglier

Prius MPV: expected Mar 2011. Lithium-ion battary 1.8l HSD.

[5936]

Wowwww.

That's ugly man. How can they cut & paste.

But 1.8 with lithium is attractive.

Cant wait to see the real car