{"id":66663,"date":"2009-12-06T15:41:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-06T20:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2009\/12\/06\/et-tu-clarkson-i-top-gear-i-names-toyota-prius-its-city-ca\/"},"modified":"2009-12-06T15:41:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-06T20:41:00","slug":"et-tu-clarkson-top-gear-names-toyota-prius-its-city-car-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/66663","title":{"rendered":"Et tu, Clarkson? <i>Top Gear<\/i> names Toyota Prius its &#8220;City Car of the Year&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/green.autoblog.com\/gallery\/2010-toyota-prius-7\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" hspace=\" 0\" height=\"293\" width=\"630\" vspace=\"4\" border=\" \" align=\"top\" alt=\"2010 Prius\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/green.autoblog.com\/media\/2009\/12\/049-2010-prius-630.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><small>2010 Toyota Prius &#8211; Click above for high-res image gallery<\/small><\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n<p>\nJeremy Clarkson seems to hate anything that &#8220;greens up&#8221; or in any other way adds an &#8220;eco&#8221; label to his cars &#8211; and some environmentalists <a href=\"http:\/\/green.autoblog.com\/2009\/09\/18\/environmentalists-treat-jeremy-clarksons-lawn-to-a-steaming-pil\/\">don&#8217;t exactly appreciate the television host<\/a> either &#8211; so it&#8217;s with some amusement that we learn that the <em>Top Gear<\/em> team has named the Toyota Prius the &#8220;City Car of the Year.&#8221; Turns out, the Prius really can appeal to almost everyone.<\/p>\n<p>Clarkson was not specifically quoted in the Prius praise piece &#8211; remember, this is the guy who called Honda&#8217;s Insight &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2009\/05\/18\/jeremy-clarkson-calls-honda-insight-biblically-terrible\/\">Biblically terrible<\/a>&#8221; and <a href=\"http:\/\/green.autoblog.com\/2009\/01\/12\/clarkson-explains-himself-in-written-tesla-review-loves-hydroge\/\">pretended to run out of energy<\/a> in a Tesla Roadster &#8211; but his mates said the 2010 Prius gets &#8220;awesome numbers&#8221; of 60 mpg (U.S. gallons, as measured on the UK scale) and emits just 89 grams of C02 per km. And all this from &#8220;a proper family five-door hatch.&#8221; BBC <em>Top Gear <\/em>Editor Conor McNicholas even called the third-gen model &#8220;something quite ground-breaking.&#8221; <em>Press release pasted after the jump. <br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"postgallery\">\n<p><strong>Gallery: <a href=\"http:\/\/green.autoblog.com\/photos\/2010-toyota-prius-7\/low\/\">2010 Toyota Prius<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/green.autoblog.com\/photos\/2010-toyota-prius-7\/low\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.autobloggreen.com\/media\/2009\/03\/001-2010-prius_thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/green.autoblog.com\/photos\/2010-toyota-prius-7\/low\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.autobloggreen.com\/media\/2009\/03\/002-2010-prius_thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/green.autoblog.com\/photos\/2010-toyota-prius-7\/low\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.autobloggreen.com\/media\/2009\/03\/003-2010-prius_thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/green.autoblog.com\/photos\/2010-toyota-prius-7\/low\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.autobloggreen.com\/media\/2009\/03\/004-2010-prius_thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/green.autoblog.com\/photos\/2010-toyota-prius-7\/low\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.autobloggreen.com\/media\/2009\/03\/005-2010-prius_thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>\n[Source: Toyota]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2009\/12\/06\/et-tu-clarkson-i-top-gear-i-names-toyota-prius-its-city-ca\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Continue reading <em>Et tu, Clarkson? <i>Top Gear<\/i> names Toyota Prius its &#8220;City Car of the Year&#8221;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2009\/12\/06\/et-tu-clarkson-i-top-gear-i-names-toyota-prius-its-city-ca\/\">Et tu, Clarkson? <i>Top Gear<\/i> names Toyota Prius its &#8220;City Car of the Year&#8221;<\/a> originally appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\">Autoblog<\/a> on Sun, 06 Dec 2009 15:41:00 EST.  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