"C" You Later Low Gas Mileage

You know who worked really hard this year and deserves a break? You’re fuel pump, that’s who.  You take for granted all the hard work the fuel pump assembly does for you.  Without it you wouldn’t get to work, or get to the in-laws for the holidays.  OK, so maybe in the second example we wish the fuel pump would stop working so we could skip the in-laws. Nonetheless, they deserve a break.

It appears that Toyota is going to give the fuel pumps in their new Prius C a huge break.  These fuel pumps are going to have a nice and relaxing job, since the new Prius C is supposed to get 83 miles per gallon.  That’s a little bit better than the standard Prius model.  According to Toyota the Prius C will get the best city fuel economy of any hyrbids that do not plug in.

The car was introduced last week at the Tokyo Motor Show as the Toyota Aquas, but it will be officially introduced as the Prius C in the states next month at The Detroit Auto Show.  The cost will be somewhere around $21,700.  The car will have a 1.5 liter four cylinder engine to go along with its electric motor. The total horsepower of the vehicle is going to be around 98.  This is about 40 horsepower less than the normal Prius and the Prius V.   

You will be able to buy this miniature Prius this spring.  And, Toyota is forecasting that a lot of you are going to buy it.  They expect to sell 12,000 a month in Japan and hope to have a 20 percent increase in global sales this year.