Video from Toyota’s concept debut in Detroit

I can’t say I think much of the video game music used during the reveal but I love the car. I would, quite frankly, love to see a small, two-person vehicle as well.

The most interesting thing is Mr. Lentz’s recapitulation of this morning’s press release announcing that Toyota USA would be working towards building a family of Prius models. Something which, if you haven’t been following too closely, was raised about two years but apparently squashed by Japan. With the go ahead from Japan the question becomes, how will Toyota fill out the Prius family? What will see first? I still the natural would be a Prius wagon and a Prius sports coupe. Maybe, since Toyota has not yet announced a US hybrid mini-van, maybe a Prius mini-van (though I think that whole mini-van concept is really played out).

I am also glad to see Toyota talking, publicly, about moving towards an entire line of electric vehicles. I think that is what the future holds for us and to pretend that gas will (or even should) be around forever is silly. If for no other reason, we need oil for a lot of other important things, we can use electricity to move us from place to place. So cheers to Toyota to taking a big public step and saying, yes, we’re going electric.

What do you think?