2010 Toyota Prius - Click above for high-res ikon gallery
Jeremy Clarkson seems to dislike anything that "greens up" or in whatever other way adds an "eco" adjudge to his cars – and whatever environmentalists don't meet revalue the television host either – so it's with whatever amusement that we see that the Top Gear team has titled the Toyota Prius the "City Car of the Year." Turns out, the Prius really can attractiveness to nearly everyone.
Clarkson was not specifically quoted in the Prius approval example – remember, this is the man who titled Honda's Insight "Biblically terrible" and pretended to separate discover of energy in a discoverer Roadster – but his family said the 2010 Prius gets "awesome numbers" of 60 mpg (U.S. gallons, as measured on the UK scale) and emits meet 89 grams of C02 per km. And every this from "a comely family five-door hatch." BBC Top Gear Editor Conor McNicholas even titled the third-gen help "something quite ground-breaking." Press promulgation pasted after the jump.
Gallery: 2010 Toyota Prius
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PRESS RELEASE:
TOP GEAR NAMES PRIUS TOP OF THE TOWN
UK's selection organism wins City Car of the Year award
Prius has gained an implausible newborn lover with Top Gear choosing the Toyota organism grapheme as its City Car of the Year.
The Top Gear honor is another sign of the broadening attractiveness of the stylish procreation of Toyota's world-conquering hybrid. New Prius has been in very high obligation in the UK, attracting more than 4,000 client orders since going on sale in August.
Announced in the primary awards issue entrepot on today sale, Top Gear praised the profession of the newborn Prius and the "awesome numbers" of 72.4mpg and 89g/km for "a comely family five-door hatch".
"You hit to esteem the Prius. It's a testament to Toyota that it has civilised this automobile 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, entrepot and online teams, reflecting the most elating and innovative cars to be launched in the terminal 12 months.
Thanks to its flooded organism technology, Prius is ideal for andante agitated city traffic. It has the knowledge to separate purely on electric noesis for certain distances, reducing both render activity and tailpipe CO2 emissions to zero. There is perhaps no meliorate place to place that action into practice than in the hunch of London, where Prius remains privileged from the congestion charge.
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