{"id":166873,"date":"2010-01-11T17:15:23","date_gmt":"2010-01-11T22:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gas2.org\/2010\/01\/11\/toyota-officially-unveils-baby-prius-concept-again-hints-at-whole-prius-family\/"},"modified":"2010-01-11T17:15:23","modified_gmt":"2010-01-11T22:15:23","slug":"toyota-officially-unveils-baby-prius-concept-again-hints-at-whole-prius-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/166873","title":{"rendered":"Toyota Officially Unveils Baby Prius Concept, Again Hints at Whole Prius Family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4460 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/go635254.s3.amazonaws.com\/gas2\/files\/2010\/01\/ftch-cutout-ext-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As hinted at for the last few months, Toyota has today debuted a smaller sibling to the Prius at the Detroit Auto Show. According to a statement from Toyota, the FT-CH (CH=compact hybrid) is &#8220;designed to target a lower price point than the Prius, thus appealing to a younger, less-affluent buyer demographic.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Translation: &#8220;This car is for you, you poor just-out-of-college graduate&#8230; who, due to the econopocalypse, settled for a job making half of what you expected to&#8230; who would buy a Prius if your parents weren&#8217;t driving one and would lend you $23K.&#8221; Oh come on, you know you want one. The FT-CH is&#8230; dare I say it&#8230; cool.<\/p>\n<p>Hell, I want one&#8230; but mostly because I&#8217;m a cheap skate. Actually, I&#8217;m still positive my next car will be a plug-in, but even so, I&#8217;m having just a little bit of FT-CH lust. I might honestly be having way more FT-CH lust if the simple act of even writing that horrendous name wasn&#8217;t enough to put ice in my loins.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gas2.org\/2010\/01\/11\/toyota-officially-unveils-baby-prius-concept-again-hints-at-whole-prius-family\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more of this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?a=pz3Dvd9fpGA:NrziKXQynm4:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?a=pz3Dvd9fpGA:NrziKXQynm4:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?i=pz3Dvd9fpGA:NrziKXQynm4:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?a=pz3Dvd9fpGA:NrziKXQynm4:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?i=pz3Dvd9fpGA:NrziKXQynm4:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?a=pz3Dvd9fpGA:NrziKXQynm4:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?i=pz3Dvd9fpGA:NrziKXQynm4:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?a=pz3Dvd9fpGA:NrziKXQynm4:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/gas2\/org\/~4\/pz3Dvd9fpGA\" height=\"1\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/sxz1WDTA2KcQiqKKoICOFNo4WPI\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/sxz1WDTA2KcQiqKKoICOFNo4WPI\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/sxz1WDTA2KcQiqKKoICOFNo4WPI\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/sxz1WDTA2KcQiqKKoICOFNo4WPI\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/RenewableEnergyNewsSyndicator\/~4\/BxM8Uv7IRIs\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As hinted at for the last few months, Toyota has today debuted a smaller sibling to the Prius at the Detroit Auto Show. 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