All-new Toyota Prius price in Japan starts from ¥2.05m

[kosutasu]

Text in English (automatically translated)

Asahi Shimbun is telling that Toyota Motor decided the policy to assume the bottom price of the gas-and-electric-powered car 'Prius' to improve all aspects in May and to schedule the sale to be about 2.05 million yen in the morning newspaper the 12th.

The price of present Prius is 3,349,500 The bottom price will be set about 300,000 yen cheaply for 2 million 331 thousand- yen.

New Prius increases the engine displacement from present 1.5 liters to 1.8 liters, and the body is enlarged a little. Fuel cost is improved to about 38km/a liter achieving the same degree of the driving performance as 2.4-liter car.

The difference of the bottom price with Prius ..about 150,000 yen.. contracts though the order of about one month after it puts it on the market has gone up from 1.89 million yen and the cheap feeling to 18,000.

It is expected that Toyota reviews the pricing strategy and will oppose it from the good transition of sales of late-started incite.

(http://japanesegreencars.blogspot.co...-in-japan.html)

[cuchulain]

So reading the Japanese, the base price for the PriusIII is 2.05 million Yen, the current PriusII starts at 2.30 million Yen. The base H Insight starts at 1.89 million Yen.

Toyota also announced that the 10-15 rating is 38km/L up from the 35.5km/L.

Good Luck
Andrew

[brick]

$21,244usd

[philmcneal]

wow that's a bargin compared to the insight's current pricing.... looks like Toyota really lowered the cost for HSD after all. Can't wait for Toyota's offical annoucement for the North American market.

Hopefully Honda will smell the coffee and offer incentives to compete.