pFiled under: a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/hybrids/" rel="tag"Hybrids/Alternative/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/pimg vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2009/01/prius-08-580.jpg" /br /br /The current generation Prius has been a big hit in the US and Japan, and the tried and true second-gen. model could live on in Japan after the new hybrid goes on sale this spring. According to reports out of Japan, Toyota will sell a de-contented version of the old Prius to better compete with the new a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2009/01/11/abg-first-drive-2010-honda-insight-63-4-mpg/"Honda Insight/a on price. The current Prius is rumored to be getting a cheapening on the inside, giving Toyota the ability to price it at yen;2 million mark, or about $22,000 US.br /br /Toyota isn't responding to questions surrounding the rumors, as it says it doesn't comment on future product. We're not sure why questions about the current Prius could be considered "future product," but that's Toyota's story and their sticking to it. emInside Line/em points out that having two different models called the Prius could be a bit confusing, and we tend to agree. Our web-writing friends are all for a "Prius Classic" designation, while we're rooting for "Prius Lite."br /br /[Source: a href="http://www.edmunds.com/insideline/do/News/articleId=140246"Inside Line/a]p style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2009/01/26/report-toyota-to-sell-decontented-current-prius-alongside-new-m/"REPORT: Toyota to sell decontented current Prius alongside new model in Japan/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.autoblog.com"Autoblog/a on Mon, 26 Jan 2009 08:02:00 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.edmunds.com/insideline/do/News/articleId=140246Read/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2009/01/26/report-toyota-to-sell-decontented-current-prius-alongside-new-m/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/forward/1439803/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2009/01/26/report-toyota-to-sell-decontented-current-prius-alongside-new-m/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/apa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/bWeDHrPrJN3emfnizGvuSTYQlsY/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/bWeDHrPrJN3emfnizGvuSTYQlsY/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare"a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?a=L8TQIUSt"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?i=L8TQIUSt" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?a=oRHZnkMq"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?i=oRHZnkMq" border="0"/img/a/divimg src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/weblogsinc/autoblog/~4/ome_Kgk-4WQ" height="1" width="1"/

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