In a joint effort to support the UAE Vision 2021’s environmental targets, Al-Futtaim Toyota announced the handover of first 50 Prius Hybrid Electric Vehicles (HEV) to Arabia Taxi, member of Arabia Holdings Group of companies and one of the UAE’s largest taxi operators, marking the latter as the first fleet operator in the UAE to use a Prius in its ranks.
As the industry focuses more on electric vehicles, Toyota, makers of the most famous hybrid vehicle ever, gave it their first shot with the Prius Plug-in Hybrid based on the last-gen Prius. Now there is a new plug-in hybrid model based on the all-new Prius, the latter being a regular hybrid that doesn’t plug into a wall socket. Dubbed the Toyota Prius Prime, Toyota says that it was designed based heavily on customer feedback.
The Toyota Prius is finally in the GCC! Frankly speaking, no matter how much hate the Prius gets, we’ve always been fascinated by it, since it came to define the hybrid car.
Japanese tuning firm Wald International, famous for overhauling stock Toyotas and Nissans, among various other brands, has had a go at the new Prius with a new styling package.
Al-Futtaim Motors, the UAE’s Toyota distributor, has officially launched the fourth-generation Toyota Prius here. Up until now, the most popular hybrid vehicle in the world was not offered in the GCC, although they were sold in other Middle East countries such as Jordan and Lebanon. It has also just been launched in Saudi Arabia.
Toyota revealed the all-new Prius at the 2015 Dubai International Motor Show. The fourth-generation Prius is set to go on sale in the GCC region for the first time.
Toyota has revealed the all-new 2016 Prius, which is set to be the fourth-generation model.
The new 2013 Toyota Prius has been launched at this year’s Saudi International Motor Show in Jeddah.
Google has built a completely-autonomous Toyota Prius that apparently can drive itself around town without the need for a driver. The routes are pre-programmed, and the car has completed over 300,000 km of testing. Using cameras and a scanning laser to do the driving, you just tell it your destination and it plots a route for you, taking into consideration speed limits and traffic patterns. Once they even used Steve, a man who is 95% blind, as part of that testing. However, the car is too expensive to put into production at this point.
Since it’s recall season, more manufacturers are getting in on the game. This time, Jeep and Ford are joining Toyota with brake problems.