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Everyday Driver Car Debate

TestDrive: Toyota Prius PRIME

Everyday Driver Car Debate

Everyday Driver

Hobbies, Automotive, Leisure

4.82K Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2023

⏱️ 21 minutes

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The Prius PRIME test drive. Write to us with your Car Debates, Car Conclusions, and Topic Tuesdays at [email protected] or everydaydriver.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Feeling primed? Are you primed already? I have primed and ready. If that's the hashtag

0:06.4

they forgot. Glovebox, wireless charger, primed and ready. It's Prius Pod.

0:12.0

For a couple of decades, the only way to make a Prius go fast off the line was to do a

0:17.0

break stand everywhere. True. I figured this out and decided to drive Prius. I ever

0:21.6

Prius, we ever drove. Yes. I would have the gas pedal flat to the floor and just modulate

0:26.8

my speed with a break. Never let your foot off the gas. You were rally driving a Prius

0:31.6

everywhere. All the time. But you don't need to do that anymore. That's true.

0:35.2

Because this is the Prius Prime that has the most horsepower I think that any Prius has ever had.

0:41.0

By far, well here's the thing. This is the fifth generation Prius which we actually like and we

0:44.8

have reviews of that coming as well. This has got 220 horsepower now. The non-prime version,

0:50.4

the prime version if you don't know means it is a plug-in hybrid. This has 44 miles of electric

0:55.9

range which is a significant all-electric range. It plugs in. It will run all EV for a bit.

1:01.7

genuine power genuine power genuine, genuine ability to pass people zero to 60 is now down to six

1:07.0

and a half seconds here which is impressive. But this is 20 more horsepower than the fifth

1:13.1

gen Prius of every other kind which is either 194 or 196 horsepower depending on whether you

1:18.2

got front wheel drive all wheel drive. Right. Right. Interesting thing for me about the

1:21.1

prime though is it's not being offered in anything other than front wheel drive.

1:25.0

So the most powerful Prius is coming front wheel drive only with no plans from Toyota to make

1:30.3

an all wheel drive. And what's funny is because it's an electric motor with that all-electric power,

1:36.0

you can overwhelm these front tires. Now you don't have to do that. You can just do it.

1:42.3

I'm ready to overwhelm your prime to be aligned and ready to get after it. Come on.

1:47.8

All right well since we're sitting here. Yes. The interior is just like the regular Prius. Yes.

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