Top Gear names Toyota Prius "City Car of the Year"
12-06-09, 07:26 PM
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Top Gear names Toyota Prius "City Car of the Year"
Et tu, Clarkson? Top Gear names Toyota Prius its "City Car of the Year"
by Sebastian Blanco on Dec 6th 2009 at 3:41PM
Jeremy Clarkson seems to hate anything that "greens up" or in any other way adds an "eco" label to his cars – and some environmentalists don't exactly appreciate the television host either – so it's with some amusement that we learn that the Top Gear team has named the Toyota Prius the "City Car of the Year." Turns out, the Prius really can appeal to almost everyone.
Clarkson was not specifically quoted in the Prius praise piece – remember, this is the guy who called Honda's Insight "Biblically terrible" and pretended to run out of energy in a Tesla Roadster – but his mates said the 2010 Prius gets "awesome numbers" of 60 mpg (U.S. gallons, as measured on the UK scale) and emits just 89 grams of C02 per km. And all this from "a proper family five-door hatch." BBC Top Gear Editor Conor McNicholas even called the third-gen model "something quite ground-breaking." Press release pasted after the jump.
[Source: Toyota]
PRESS RELEASE:
TOP GEAR NAMES PRIUS TOP OF THE TOWN
UK's favourite hybrid wins City Car of the Year award
Prius has gained an unlikely new admirer with Top Gear choosing the Toyota hybrid star as its City Car of the Year.
The Top Gear award is another sign of the broadening appeal of the latest generation of Toyota's world-conquering hybrid. New Prius has been in very high demand in the UK, attracting more than 4,000 customer orders since going on sale in August.
Announced in the special awards issue magazine on now sale, Top Gear praised the technology of the new Prius and the "awesome numbers" of 72.4mpg and 89g/km for "a proper family five-door hatch".
"You have to admire the Prius. It's a testament to Toyota that it has refined this car over three generations to arrive at something quite ground-breaking," said Conor McNicholas, BBC Top Gear Editor.
The Top Gear awards are selected by the TV, magazine and online teams, reflecting the most exciting and innovative cars to be launched in the last 12 months.
Thanks to its full hybrid technology, Prius is ideal for slow moving city traffic. It has the ability to run purely on electric power for certain distances, reducing both fuel consumption and tailpipe CO2 emissions to zero. There is perhaps no better place to put that performance into practice than in the heart of London, where Prius remains exempt from the congestion charge.
http://www.autoblog.com/2009/12/06/e...s-its-city-ca/
by Sebastian Blanco on Dec 6th 2009 at 3:41PM
Jeremy Clarkson seems to hate anything that "greens up" or in any other way adds an "eco" label to his cars – and some environmentalists don't exactly appreciate the television host either – so it's with some amusement that we learn that the Top Gear team has named the Toyota Prius the "City Car of the Year." Turns out, the Prius really can appeal to almost everyone.
Clarkson was not specifically quoted in the Prius praise piece – remember, this is the guy who called Honda's Insight "Biblically terrible" and pretended to run out of energy in a Tesla Roadster – but his mates said the 2010 Prius gets "awesome numbers" of 60 mpg (U.S. gallons, as measured on the UK scale) and emits just 89 grams of C02 per km. And all this from "a proper family five-door hatch." BBC Top Gear Editor Conor McNicholas even called the third-gen model "something quite ground-breaking." Press release pasted after the jump.
[Source: Toyota]
PRESS RELEASE:
TOP GEAR NAMES PRIUS TOP OF THE TOWN
UK's favourite hybrid wins City Car of the Year award
Prius has gained an unlikely new admirer with Top Gear choosing the Toyota hybrid star as its City Car of the Year.
The Top Gear award is another sign of the broadening appeal of the latest generation of Toyota's world-conquering hybrid. New Prius has been in very high demand in the UK, attracting more than 4,000 customer orders since going on sale in August.
Announced in the special awards issue magazine on now sale, Top Gear praised the technology of the new Prius and the "awesome numbers" of 72.4mpg and 89g/km for "a proper family five-door hatch".
"You have to admire the Prius. It's a testament to Toyota that it has refined this car over three generations to arrive at something quite ground-breaking," said Conor McNicholas, BBC Top Gear Editor.
The Top Gear awards are selected by the TV, magazine and online teams, reflecting the most exciting and innovative cars to be launched in the last 12 months.
Thanks to its full hybrid technology, Prius is ideal for slow moving city traffic. It has the ability to run purely on electric power for certain distances, reducing both fuel consumption and tailpipe CO2 emissions to zero. There is perhaps no better place to put that performance into practice than in the heart of London, where Prius remains exempt from the congestion charge.
http://www.autoblog.com/2009/12/06/e...s-its-city-ca/
12-07-09, 07:03 AM
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Interesting, especially after Clarkson's recent piece comparing the Prius with an M3 at the track. Under extremely unrealistic conditions, the little hybrid was screaming it's tiny heart out while the M3 was just loafing along in pursuit. The result? The M3 beat the socks off the Prius in a comparison of MPG, leading Clarkson to opine that "It's not what you drive, but HOW you drive!"
Duh!
I'll probably not select a Prius as my track car, because it gets such miserable mileage . . .
Duh!
I'll probably not select a Prius as my track car, because it gets such miserable mileage . . .
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12-07-09, 10:04 AM
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good win except uk cities (esp. london) don't want any cars in them anyway... 
but if you have to have a car in the city, a prius is a good choice of course.
but if you have to have a car in the city, a prius is a good choice of course.
12-07-09, 07:36 PM
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With the Prius, perhaps even Clarkson likes not having to pay big $$$$$$ at the gas pump. Gotta remember......gassing up in Europe is not like here in America. There, you pay REAL money for a fillup.
It's one thing to enjoy driving the high-powered "enthusiast" cars that Clarkson worships.....and he seems to like the Mercedes AMG models best of all. It's quite another matter, though, filling them up.
And, it's usually in city driving that full "parallel" hybrids like the Prius usually get their best gas mileage.....that's because the gas engine usually doesn't have to run a much in stop-and-go driving, and regenerative coasting/braking helps keep the battery-pack charged for full-electric operation.
It's one thing to enjoy driving the high-powered "enthusiast" cars that Clarkson worships.....and he seems to like the Mercedes AMG models best of all. It's quite another matter, though, filling them up.
And, it's usually in city driving that full "parallel" hybrids like the Prius usually get their best gas mileage.....that's because the gas engine usually doesn't have to run a much in stop-and-go driving, and regenerative coasting/braking helps keep the battery-pack charged for full-electric operation.
Last edited by mmarshall; 12-07-09 at 07:41 PM.
12-08-09, 10:34 PM
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With the Prius, perhaps even Clarkson likes not having to pay big $$$$$$ at the gas pump. Gotta remember......gassing up in Europe is not like here in America. There, you pay REAL money for a fillup.
It's one thing to enjoy driving the high-powered "enthusiast" cars that Clarkson worships.....and he seems to like the Mercedes AMG models best of all. It's quite another matter, though, filling them up.
And, it's usually in city driving that full "parallel" hybrids like the Prius usually get their best gas mileage.....that's because the gas engine usually doesn't have to run a much in stop-and-go driving, and regenerative coasting/braking helps keep the battery-pack charged for full-electric operation.
It's one thing to enjoy driving the high-powered "enthusiast" cars that Clarkson worships.....and he seems to like the Mercedes AMG models best of all. It's quite another matter, though, filling them up.
And, it's usually in city driving that full "parallel" hybrids like the Prius usually get their best gas mileage.....that's because the gas engine usually doesn't have to run a much in stop-and-go driving, and regenerative coasting/braking helps keep the battery-pack charged for full-electric operation.
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