pFiled under: a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/hybrids/" rel="tag"Hybrids/Alternative/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/green/" rel="tag"Green/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/hatchbacks/" rel="tag"Hatchbacks/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/toyota/" rel="tag"Toyota/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/driving/" rel="tag"First Drive/a/pa href="http://www.autobloggreen.com/photos/2010-toyota-prius-first-drive/1450555/"img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autobloggreen.com/media/2009/03/2010_prius_01_opt.jpg" //abr /div style="text-align: center;"span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"small2010 Toyota Prius - Click above for high-res image gallery/small/spanbr //divbr /When you sit in the 2010 Toyota Prius, you notice all those little things that provide the "Prius experience" - the shift lever, information screen, center-mounted instrument panel - are all present, but they're slightly different and noticeably improved. The time it takes to adapt to the revised interior is emblematic of the new Prius experience. It's the same oddly shaped hybrid that almost two million buyers love, but it gets better mileage, looks sharper and is packing more technological whiz-bangery than any vehicle this simple to drive has the right to.br /br /We recently tested the 2010 Prius at its North American launch through the vineyard-covered fields and hills surrounding Napa, California. Through it all, the hybrid, officially rated at 50 mpg, performed well and delivered better-than-expected fuel economy. In fact, when we pushed the car's eco prowess by using the EV mode as much as possible and employing a few other tricks, we blew that EPA estimate out of the water by almost 15 mpg. And we weren't alone.br /br /br /div class="postgallery"pstrongGallery: a href="http://www.autobloggreen.com/photos/2010-toyota-prius-first-drive/"2010 Toyota Prius - First Drive/a/strong/pa href="http://www.autobloggreen.com/photos/2010-toyota-prius-first-drive/1450555/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autobloggreen.com/media/2009/03/2010_prius_01_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.autobloggreen.com/photos/2010-toyota-prius-first-drive/1450556/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autobloggreen.com/media/2009/03/2010_prius_02_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.autobloggreen.com/photos/2010-toyota-prius-first-drive/1450565/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autobloggreen.com/media/2009/03/2010_prius_03_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.autobloggreen.com/photos/2010-toyota-prius-first-drive/1450567/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autobloggreen.com/media/2009/03/2010_prius_04_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.autobloggreen.com/photos/2010-toyota-prius-first-drive/1450577/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autobloggreen.com/media/2009/03/2010_prius_05_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //a/divbr /strongsmallPhotos Copyright (C)2008 a href="http://bradthephotog.com/"Brad Wood/a / Weblogs, Inc./small/strongpa href="http://www.autoblog.com/2009/03/25/first-drive-2010-toyota-prius-puts-up-big-numbers/" rel="bookmark"Continue reading emFirst Drive: 2010 Toyota Prius puts up BIG numbers/em/a/pp style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2009/03/25/first-drive-2010-toyota-prius-puts-up-big-numbers/"First Drive: 2010 Toyota Prius puts up BIG numbers/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.autoblog.com"Autoblog/a on Wed, 25 Mar 2009 11:57:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./ph6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2009/03/25/first-drive-2010-toyota-prius-puts-up-big-numbers/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/forward/1498023/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2009/03/25/first-drive-2010-toyota-prius-puts-up-big-numbers/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/apa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/f1xbJ7nPR8N4WBQ4G53VBD9AY30/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/f1xbJ7nPR8N4WBQ4G53VBD9AY30/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare"a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/weblogsinc/autoblog?a=dzGACdLwZ20:WrZJugzQa5o:wF9xT3WuBAs"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/weblogsinc/autoblog?i=dzGACdLwZ20:WrZJugzQa5o:wF9xT3WuBAs" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/weblogsinc/autoblog?a=dzGACdLwZ20:WrZJugzQa5o:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/weblogsinc/autoblog?i=dzGACdLwZ20:WrZJugzQa5o:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a/divimg src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/weblogsinc/autoblog/~4/dzGACdLwZ20" height="1" width="1"/

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