pFiled under: a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/coupes/" rel="tag"Coupe/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/hybrids/" rel="tag"Hybrid/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/japan/" rel="tag"Japan/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/toyota/" rel="tag"Toyota/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/rumormill/" rel="tag"Rumormill/a/pa href="http://www.7tune.com/more-on-the-prius-based-hybird-sports-coupe/"img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2009/07/2012_toyota_hybrid_sports_coupe-580op.jpg" alt="" //abr /br /Toyota's new president admits the a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2009/07/23/toyota-na-pres-inaba-hopes-for-profit-in-2011-nummi-could-be-d/"automaker needs an excitement-infusion/a, and to that end - and in order to match the upcoming a href="http://www.autoblog.com/tag/HondaCRZ/"Honda CR-Z/a tit-for-tat - Toyota is rumored to be working on a a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/11/10/rumormill-toyota-prius-coupe-in-the-works/"two-door version of the Prius/a.br /br /The latest reports out of Japan indicate that a shortened, 2+2 Prius-based hybrid sports coupe is under development, packing an uprated version of the 1.8-liter 2ZR-FXE four-cylinder putting out around 134 hp - 36 hp more than in its sedan counterpart. Naturally, Toyota's Hybrid Synergy Drive system will carry over and the additional power boost will have an adverse impact on fuel mileage - albeit a minor one.br /br /If the Prius coupe does come to fruition, expect it to be around 100 mm shorter than the sedan, carry over the standard Prius' interior and debut sometime in mid-2012. Conveniently, there's no word on a name and whether or not the coupe will be sold in the States, but we wouldn't be surprised to find out that this would be a JDM-only affair. br /br /[Source: a href="http://www.7tune.com/more-on-the-prius-based-hybird-sports-coupe/"7Tune/a]p style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2009/07/24/more-details-on-the-rumored-toyota-prius-coupe/"More details on rumored Toyota Prius coupe/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.autoblog.com"Autoblog/a on Fri, 24 Jul 2009 15:31:00 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.7tune.com/more-on-the-prius-based-hybird-sports-coupe/Read/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2009/07/24/more-details-on-the-rumored-toyota-prius-coupe/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/forward/19108958/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2009/07/24/more-details-on-the-rumored-toyota-prius-coupe/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/apa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/mnPnU4d6Z51eIiyz17iNn9Uz7w4/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/mnPnU4d6Z51eIiyz17iNn9Uz7w4/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/mnPnU4d6Z51eIiyz17iNn9Uz7w4/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/mnPnU4d6Z51eIiyz17iNn9Uz7w4/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare"a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/weblogsinc/autoblog?a=MJUFeyIMqMQ:wLqJt_-kHP0:wF9xT3WuBAs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/weblogsinc/autoblog?i=MJUFeyIMqMQ:wLqJt_-kHP0:wF9xT3WuBAs" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/weblogsinc/autoblog?a=MJUFeyIMqMQ:wLqJt_-kHP0:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/weblogsinc/autoblog?i=MJUFeyIMqMQ:wLqJt_-kHP0:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a/divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/weblogsinc/autoblog/~4/MJUFeyIMqMQ" height="1" width="1"/

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