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John Mahoney8 Jul 2015
NEWS

All-new Toyota Prius leaked?

Taiwanese website claims to have unearthed official sketches of the all-new fourth-gen Toyota hybrid

Taiwanese website, Autonet, has leaked pictures of what it says is Toyota's next-generation Prius hybrid.

Posting the images late last night, the website claims Toyota is working on not one, but two new body styles for the replacement of the world's most popular hybrid to help buyers differentiate between a new plug-in hybrid version and the regular car.

The images, which have not been confirmed as genuine, were also leaked with a dossier of top secret documents detailing how the next-gen Prius is shaping up.

Headline news is the new Prius will average an incredible 2.5L/100km when it debuts this October at the Tokyo motor show.

According to the document the new car will also measure in at 4550mm long, 1770mm high and 1490mm wide -- making it the same width as the current car, but longer (+70mm) and taller (+25mm).

Despite the increase in size, Autonet claims that the new car will be more than 100kg lighter, weighing in at 1280kg.

Powered by a 75kW 1.8-litre, total power will be around 120kW, says the leaked doc, thanks to new third-generation hybrid guts,

It also reveals the plug-in hybrid version will cover up to 50km on electric power alone, with the plug-in version averaging 1.4L/100km.

It’s already been confirmed the all-new Prius hybrid will be the first model to take advantage of the Japanese company's billion-dollar TNGA platform.

The platform, said to be significantly lighter and between 35-60 per cent stronger than the current car’s underpinnings, will also dictate the sleeker shape of the fourth-generation Prius, according to a Toyota insider speaking exclusively to motoring.com.au.

“The next-generation Prius will be lower and wider, but still unmistakably a Prius,” said the insider -- contradicting the images leaked on Autonet, but in any case the next Prius should be far better to drive. The TNGA platform has a much lower centre of gravity that should help driving dynamics.

Due on sale in Australia early next year, the new Prius could also be cheaper. Using the new global platform is said to make Toyota hybrids of the future 40 per cent cheaper to develop. Toyota says it plans to reinvest 75 per cent of that savings back into making the car better than its opposition -- the Prius will be our first chance to see if that’s true.

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