{"id":938,"date":"2011-01-21T19:13:23","date_gmt":"2011-01-22T00:13:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/?p=938"},"modified":"2013-08-13T20:58:13","modified_gmt":"2013-08-14T01:58:13","slug":"the-prius-v","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/?p=938","title":{"rendered":"The Prius V"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Prius V was unveiled recently, and I&#8217;m sorry for not blogging about it to you all. <a href=\"http:\/\/priuschat.com\/forums\/members\/danny-albums-2012-toyota-prius-v-photos.html\">Here are some pictures from PriusChat<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s basically just a bigger Prius. If it was available at the time I got my Prius, it might have been in tough competition, because my Wayfare, she loves her some cargo space. I don&#8217;t want to comment too negatively just yet on the performance and fuel consumption figures since they&#8217;re very preliminary, but I don&#8217;t like the how much of a fuel economy hit this very marginal increase in size (and aerodynamics with the changed roofline) is rumoured to have cost. It&#8217;s also rumoured that the Prius V will be slower to get up to speed (which makes sense: it&#8217;s the same engine, motors, and I think batteries as the regular Prius). I find the Prius is quite reasonably powered: it&#8217;s no sports car, but if I need to accelerate, I can. But I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;d opt for much <em>less <\/em>power.<\/p>\n<p>There is definitely an air of disappointment about this release: it was widely speculated that Toyota would be bringing in a 6- or 7- seater, either a minivan based on the Prius, or a station-wagon (or &#8220;MPV&#8221;) with fold-out jump seats for kids in the rear, like a Mazda 5, Ford Taurus X, Volvo XC90, etc. The new Prius V is still a 5-seater, just bigger. Though the rear seats do recline now, like a boss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Prius V was unveiled recently, and I&#8217;m sorry for not blogging about it to you all. Here are some pictures from PriusChat. It&#8217;s basically just a bigger Prius. If it was available at the time I got my Prius, it might have been in tough competition, because my Wayfare, she loves her some cargo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}