Drive a virtual Prius! Old news, perhaps, but there was an event last year at Toyota in Japan, where there was a special demo version of Gran Tourismo 4 for Playstation 2, in which you can drive a Prius. A link to an article, which contains a link to a Japanese site with screenshots is here there is a machine-translated link of the Japanese page here Apparently you can drive a Prius in the GT4 Prologue version for PS2, out now in Japan. GT4 won't be out in America till much later.
Halfbreed - this was posted before, but thanks for pointing it out again for the 500-some new folks that have signed up at Priuschat since I originally posted it a loooonnnng time ago: http://www.priuschat.com/forums/viewtopic....ht=gran+turismo
oops. I did search the forums first for "playstation" but not for "gran tourismo" Anyway, I just played it. I have GT4 Prologue and I found cheat codes to get all cars. It's cool, shows the flowchart and you can drive on electric only, etc. Now I'll be able to train on it while waiting for the real thing. I don't know how accurate it is but it seems realistic. The training mode requires you to complete the Tsukuba circuit in 1 min 50 sec while getting at least 10km/liter (24mpg) That Japanese page didn't give a clear view of the dashboard, here is a screen shot I took racing in Times Square, shows the flowchart, speed, VSC indicator, km/l and fuel consumed in cc. Apparently you don't get good mpg going 78mph.
