The 5th-generation Toyota Prius debuted in late 2022 featuring superb looks, new powertrains, and an updated TNGA platform that vastly improved handling - creating the most driver-focussed Prius ever, in contrast to the efficient runabouts all its predecessors were. That said, you wouldn't peg it to do a fast lap around a racing circuit, would you? That didn’t stop Top Gear UK from trying though, and by golly-gosh, did it look spectacular. In a recent review, they set out on the longest Uber rid

The Toyota Prius is not a car that you would associate with motorsports. When it was introduced in 1997, car enthusiasts made fun of the slow hybrid. Who would’ve expected that 26 years later, I am at Southeast Asia’s most popular racetrack, the Chang International Circuit in Buriram, Thailand, being heckled and mobbed by fans clamouring to take a photo with the 67-year old chairman of Toyota posing next to a Prius. Jeremy Clarkson would’ve called this “Bollocks.” He is not Chairman Akio Toyoda.

Super long name, but this the closest thing the world has to a Toyota GR Prius. Technicalities be damned, all we know is we want one. In full, it's called the 2023 Toyota Prius 24h Le Mans Centennial GR Edition, a concept built to honour the 100th year of the annual 24-hour endurance race. Also read: Used hybrids are really cheap, so should you buy a used Toyota Prius, Camry Hybrid or Honda Insight? One would think a Prius would be the furthest thing from cars whizzing down the Mulsanne straight

Since 2009, all new Toyota hybrid models launched after the third generation Toyota Prius wear the blue tinted Toyota logo. The blue outlines on the Toyota emblem is the most obvious differentiator for hybrid variants of Toyota models. That and the trio of wave-pattern Hybrid logos on the boot lid and front fenders (fitted since second generation Prius, 2003) is visual identifiers of Toyota hybrid models. At yesterday’s launch of the 2023 Toyota Innova Zenix in Indonesia however, the show car wa

The Toyota Prius had a rather short, fleeting stay here in Malaysia. It was on sale for only one generation, for about 5 years, between 2009 to 2014. As an imported model, coupled with higher cost of Toyota’s full-hybrid drivetrain, it would’ve been price at the level of a BMW 3 Series if not import and excise duty exemptions for hybrid vehicles then. So when that tax exemption expired, the Prius was pulled out of Malaysia. Unlike the Corolla Cross Hybrid (or even the Camry Hybrid before it), lo

South East Asia is a region where Toyota dominates. Not only that, Toyota models are so ubiquitous in this part of the world that they define the region’s urban landscape. Bangkok will not be complete without bright pink Toyota Corolla taxis, Hiace tourist vans, and of course, overloaded Toyota Hiluxes. Jakarta has its Blue Bird Toyota Vios taxis (sold as the Toyota Limo), Manila has white Vios taxi fleets, Ho Chi Mih city is moved by the Toyota Innova, while Singapore’s SMRT has its purple Toyo