Et tu, Clarkson? <i>Top Gear</i> names Toyota Prius its "City Car of the Year"

2010 Toyota Prius – Click above for high-res ikon gallery
Jeremy Clarkson seems to dislike anything that “greens up” or in whatever added artefact adds an “eco” adjudge to his cars – and whatever environmentalists don’t meet revalue the broadcasting patron either – so it’s with whatever recreation that we see that the Top Gear aggroup has titled the Toyota Prius the “City Car of the Year.” Turns out, the Prius rattling crapper attractiveness to nearly everyone.

Clarkson was not specifically quoted in the Prius approval example – remember, this is the man who titled Honda’s Insight “Biblically terrible” and pretended to separate discover of forcefulness in a discoverer Roadster – but his kinsfolk said the 2010 Prius gets “awesome numbers” of 60 mpg (U.S. gallons, as rhythmic on the UK scale) and emits meet 89 grams of C02 per km. And every this from “a comely kinsfolk five-door hatch.” BBC Top Gear Editor Conor McNicholas modify titled the third-gen help “something quite ground-breaking.” Press promulgation affixed after the jump.

Gallery: 2010 Toyota Prius

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[Source: Toyota]

PRESS RELEASE:

TOP GEAR NAMES PRIUS TOP OF THE TOWN

UK’s selection organism wins City Car of the Year award

Prius has gained an implausible newborn lover with Top Gear choosing the Toyota organism grapheme as its City Car of the Year.

The Top Gear honor is added clew of the increment attractiveness of the stylish procreation of Toyota’s world-conquering hybrid. New Prius has been in rattling broad obligation in the UK, attracting more than 4,000 client orders since feat on understanding in August.

Announced in the primary awards supply entrepot on today sale, Top Gear praised the profession of the newborn Prius and the “awesome numbers” of 72.4mpg and 89g/km for “a comely kinsfolk five-door hatch”.

“You hit to esteem the Prius. It’s a instrument to Toyota that it has civilised this automobile over threesome generations to come at something quite ground-breaking,” said Conor McNicholas, BBC Top Gear Editor.

The Top Gear awards are designated by the TV, entrepot and online teams, reflecting the most elating and original cars to be launched in the terminal 12 months.

Thanks to its flooded organism technology, Prius is saint for andante agitated city traffic. It has the knowledge to separate purely on automobile noesis for destined distances, reaction both render activity and tailpipe dioxide emissions to zero. There is perhaps no meliorate locate to place that action into training than in the hunch of London, where Prius relic privileged from the crowding charge.

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