Redesigned 2023 Toyota Prius due for Nov. 16 reveal

A brand new era of the Toyota Prius is ultimately in cue and prepared for a debut this Wednesday, Nov. 16. 

The 2023 Toyota Prius will mark the primary full redesign for this effectivity icon for the reason that arrival of the very energy-efficient Tesla Mannequin 3. The final time the Prius was absolutely redesigned was for the 2016 mannequin yr. Then a much-improved plug-in Prius Prime rolled in for 2017, adopted by all-wheel-drive Prius AWD-e variations for 2019. 

The Prius has been overshadowed lately by the leap to completely electrical in addition to the shift to crossovers. Additional, the outgoing era of the Prius was by no means well-received in its styling and design, choosing aggressively creased bodywork. 

Up to now, Toyota has launched just a few teaser pics. The profile means that the Prius will proceed to have a really aerodynamic form and be very a lot a passenger automotive, however the profile hints at a a lot cleaner look, with a rear LED mild bar throughout the again and a extra chiseled look enabled by the entrance lighting—bearing hints of the Avalon-replacing Crown hybrid quickly as a result of arrive at dealerships. 

Toyota has managed to maintain all the brand new Prius specs and vitals beneath wraps, and whereas we’ve seen and heard loads of hypothesis about the place the Prius is headed, the one trace we’ve obtained from Toyota concerning the subsequent Prius is that plug-in variations aren’t going away. The Prime is probably not your complete lineup, however it will likely be a broadened focus of this high-efficiency mannequin.

In recent times, Prius gross sales have tanked—maybe partly as a result of it’s not a crossover, however from some mixture of styling, the shift to EVs for the environmentally conscious, and numerous flavors of Toyota political pushback. 

That’s led us to marvel, in numerous methods, if Toyota plans to revive the Prius because the hybrid trendsetter it as soon as was. In styling, the look seems to be evolutionary reasonably than revolutionary. However wait two days and we’ll let you know about all the remaining.