The big news on the Prius V is the plug-in variant, which is set to go up against the Chevrolet Volt. Sweet! Frankfurt 2011: 2012 Toyota Prius Family
I believe you may have misunderstood the article. It says, "Full details of the V have already been revealed, but the bigger news is the plug-in variant, which is set to go up against the Chevrolet Volt." You can see in this image that the Prius v (in rear) is not the same as the Plug-in Prius (aka "PHV", blue on left).
Out of curiosity, why does Toyota continue to show a picture of the solar roof-equipped vehicle with 17" alloys but yet does not sell such a model/package anywhere in the world?
I wish I could use the phrase "many dealings with Toyota Marketing" with a straight face, but actually in my many dealings with Toyota Marketing they have insisted that it's small v in italics. Like this: Prius v
Ah, I get it. This was done to force print publishers, journalists and others to have to have many dealings with Toyota Marketing to clear up the confusion. In other words, job security! Seriously though, from an English grammatical perspective, article titles are typically all capped. Thus an italicized lowercase v would be uppercased by default, unless the editor catches this first. I doubt many writers and reviewers would take the time to do it properly.
Oh, c'mon . . . you KNOW the reason. It's because Toyota knows we want it. Toyota is trying to drive us nuts showing us what we want, but what we can't have. It's the same as folks hoping / thinking / wanting the Prius v with PHEV capabilities ... or 7 passenger capability in the U.S. ... we keep wanting it ... but still no promises anywhere in the near future. Uh oh ... Prepare to get a nastygram from Doug.
Nope. There's always an asterisk next to the solar roof option that mentions that you lose the 17" alloys by ticking that option box.
You, and everybody else. I can understand wanting to keep the Prius name while adding more cars to a family line, but I'm not so sure letters are the way to go. Mind you, my tongue-in-cheek suggestions of Priuster (the sportster version) and Priusest (the biggest one) didn't go very far. Priussy (Prius C) for the smaller version and Prickup for the truck variant seem to have caught on, though.
