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Toyota Prius Picture.

In a few years, if you’re searching to buy a new car, you could acquisition yourself bypassing your bounded Toyota dealership, branch to the Prius-brand dealership instead, and staring at a alternative of amalgam cars in all shapes and sizes. That, apparently, is Toyota’s abiding plan.

Reuters reports, “Toyota Motor Co is because affairs a ancestors of Prius-branded hybrids with committed areas in dealerships to advertise the broadcast line-up, a chief controlling said on Tuesday.” Today, the Prius is just one archetypal in Toyota dealerships. But Toyota admiral wish to advertise “a alternation of derivatives beneath the Prius cast name, including some that appear “at a abundant lower cost,” according to Toyota’s North American Sales Director Jim Lentz.

Autoblog notes, “We are assertive to get a redesigned Prius afterwards it debuts in Detroit in 2009, and afterwards that, the rumormill indicates that a abate amalgam archetypal is on the way that would added carefully attempt with the new Honda Insight,” a hybrid-only archetypal Honda will advertise in 2010 that undercuts the Prius on price. Toyota has aswell “previewed a amalgam archetypal powered by a abate gas engine,” and offers amalgam versions of its Camry midsize car and Highlander SUV. “With a bit of balmy speculation, we could anticipate a hardly beyond archetypal than the accepted Prius as a backup for the Camry hybrid, giving Toyota a three-pronged acknowledgment to the brand of the Volt from GM and the Insight from Honda.”

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