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Confirmed: This is the 2010 Toyota Prius

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    Confirmed: This is the 2010 Toyota Prius

    Filed under: Detroit Auto Show, Spy Photos, Hybrids/Alternative, Green, Toyota

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    Click above for gallery of the 2010 Toyota Prius

    [IMG]Jalopnik is reporting this morning that images published last night on the web of what appeared to be the next-generation 2010 Toyota Prius are, in fact, the real deal. Toyota PR reportedly confirmed to the website that what we're looking at is the same car that will be revealed in January at the 2009 Detroit Auto Show. We've also included some spy shots in the gallery below that would seem to corroborate this.

    As Damon pointed out last night, the new design is an evolution of the current model that incorporates some recent favorite styling cues of Toyota designers like the bulbous badge housing up front. The interior, however, is a marked step away from the current model's spaceship controls, and thankfully eschews that car's dash-mounted shifter for a new one properly placed on the buttressed center console. Mechanically speaking, the new Prius is expected to arrive with a more powerful gas engine, bigger electric motor and, despite continuing to use nickel-metal hydride rather than lithium-ion batteries, improved fuel efficiency. It is the Prius after all.

    Gallery: Confirmed: 2010 Toyota Prius

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    [Source: Jalopnik]

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    GSE21tuner Formerly rollatuner110. Representing AZLexus.club

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    I like the front. Not so much for the back.
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    i dont like it period...
    DrunkSaru, Oct 16, 2008
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    SaberJ2X Lurk MOAR

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    I like it.... but too Yaris-ish, with cadillac CTS fog lights
    SaberJ2X, Oct 16, 2008
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    the front remind me of the new matrix
    xplicitcorolla99, Oct 16, 2008
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    The nose looks yaris-ish... So Im guessing they will have higher highway MPG with the bigger engine huh...
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    1337Rolla oh my

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    looks like some fat soccer mom sat on a previa..

    confirmed: this car is lame!
    1337Rolla, Oct 16, 2008
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    either way it looks better than the current Prius'
    mochatron, Oct 16, 2008
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    id hit it
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    cgreen38 Common sense, p

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    With a sledgehammer. :D
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    hahaa lol
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    the front is more mainstream, but the back is still... you know... prius-ish...
    jcrwzr, Oct 19, 2008
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