2023 Toyota Prius Review and Drive: THE PRIUS IS NO LONGER UGLY!
2023 Toyota Prius Review and Drive: THE PRIUS IS NO LONGER UGLY!
2023 Toyota Prius Review and Drive: THE PRIUS IS NO LONGER UGLY!
I finally got my hands on the all new 2023 Toyota Prius! I absolutely love this new Toyota Hybrid and I know that a 2023 Toyota Prius will be my next vehicle. It’s faster, roomier, SO MUCH better looking, and more fuel efficient! Toyota took a great vehicle and made it spectacular and I’m All about it. I hope you enjoy this 2023 Toyota Prius Review and Drive and thanks for watching!
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0 -> Hey hey everybody Brock Frady here helping you
enjoy your ride. In today's video we're going
5.52 -> to take an in-depth look at this amazing 2023
Toyota Prius. It's been completely redesigned
13.38 -> and I'm totally in love. But before we get started
I would like to say a huge thank you and shout out
19.02 -> to Impex Auto Sales in Greensboro, North Carolina
for the opportunity to film this beautiful Prius.
24.78 -> I'll be sure to leave all of their contact
information including their website in the
29.88 -> description box below. Starting with the front
end here it looks like an amazing vehicle from
35.28 -> the future. As far as how plain it looks and when
I say plain I don't mean that in a bad way. It's
41.94 -> like everything blends in and it just looks
like everything is very purposefully placed.
47.58 -> You can see these headlights, I kind of like how
there's almost like an eyebrow here. You see that?
52.98 -> That's a panel but then there's a light that goes
here it's that big beautiful LED daytime running
58.68 -> light. Then there's your LED headlight and then
there's your turn signal right there, all LED.
64.14 -> Front park assist sensors that beep when you get
too close to something. I love how this the the
70.62 -> front nose of It kind of goes down a little bit
but then it's almost like it's flat. So it just
76.5 -> has a real dramatic look to it. You see that? That
looks so nice. The hood is is is you know kind of
84.96 -> angular down, so it has better wind or better
aerodynamics. Look how flat all of that is,
92.94 -> look how aerodynamic all of that is. I don't I'm
not sure exactly what the coefficient of drag is
97.92 -> on this thing I imagine it's well under 0.30 but
look at this look how flat that that windshield
106.08 -> is and I like it because there's very little wind
noise whenever you're in the cabin driving even
111.72 -> at highway speeds. Toyota has done well to make
this acoustic laminate sound dampening material
119.1 -> and this windshield, double laminated material
in the windshield to make it really really nice
125.52 -> and sound resistant. You also have a whole slew of
things going on up here that are safety features.
132.06 -> There's a camera here, there's radar cruise
control, there's all of the safety features
136.74 -> that work beautifully really well together. We'll
get into that in just a second when we hop on the
142.5 -> inside. One of the things about this Prius in
particular, this exact one is the fact, that
148.32 -> it's actually not very well loaded. It doesn't
have all that much equipment on it. Believe it
153.6 -> or not I actually like that because there's not
a lot of things inside that are competing for
159.3 -> your attention when you drive. It makes it so
that it's it's you just get in and you just go.
166.02 -> One of the things that I want to point out about
the fact that I believe this is just like a base
170.04 -> model Prius. It's got tons of safety features but
one of the things about it is the wheels. I'm a
176.34 -> wheel person and when I first saw these wheels
I did not initially like them. Let's take a look
181.8 -> and I want to tell you a couple of things about
these wheels real quick. The wheel design to me
186.3 -> looked a little bit freaky at first. I'm like
what is this these huge chunky mag-like things
192.06 -> kind of hearkening back to old old school plastic
mag days. In fact they are plastic however here's
199.98 -> the deal with these they are actually designed
for air to bounce off of them efficiently so that
206.34 -> it reduces drag. So it makes the overall vehicle
more fuel efficient. To me that's that's a benefit
213.24 -> obviously but to me another benefit is cleaning
these things there are not a whole lot of like you
220.2 -> know little spokes that you have to clean whenever
brake dust gets on them. I actually like these
226.56 -> wheels and I think the thing about the wheels too
is that the color especially with the black body
231.84 -> color on this vehicle it actually looks good. It
looks like super sleek and just kind of I don't
240.54 -> want to say basic because basic is often seen as
a bad thing. But I just like the way this looks.
246.3 -> It's just simple. Another thing about the color
about this thing I don't know if you can see it
253.74 -> but there is a fleck in this paint to where you
see a lot of blues and a lot of greens. This
261.24 -> is not just like a regular black. It's a it's a
very nice metallic deep paint that looks really,
269.1 -> really good up close. I really like it. Here's
another cool little quirky thing about the
274.08 -> exterior. Prius is written all over the body,
Prius here, of course you have Prius written all
280.26 -> along the back. That is so cool looking. Prius
right there, you also have Prius on the wheels,
286.62 -> there it is right there on the mag, you
also have Prius right here in the back glass
292.74 -> written out right there. You see that I don't know
why they did that. Kind of cool. I like it now as
300 -> you're walking around look at the back of it. You
see these the the way the back fenders are. They
304.38 -> kind of go out like this it makes it look more
substantial when you're looking at it from the
309.42 -> rear. I'm telling you this thing looks completely
different. I know if you have seen one of these
314.7 -> out on the road and if you know much about Toyota
and you know kind of the stigma of the Prius about
320.4 -> it looking like a toaster and all that stuff.
And when you see one of these you do a double
324.72 -> take. You're like what in the world is that one
of the things that contributes to that is the
329.22 -> fact that it's wider. It looks more athletic from
the rear and it also looks more athletic from the
334.56 -> side too because these rear fenders kind of go
out and then they sink back in, all obviously
341.7 -> working for aerodynamics. Another thing you have
here are two lines that are in the roof, all wind
348.54 -> directive things taking wind pulling it off of the
end and washing it off of the back. Here's the key
354.9 -> fob for the new Prius. It's basically the same as
you've seen before lock on the top, unlock, hold.
361.08 -> On the back side you have the word Prius written.
Then there is a little key here, you push this tab
366.54 -> down, you remove the key from the edge and then
that is a physical key. It looks just like this
371.64 -> one it will never be used to start the Prius.
It's only used in the event that the battery
375.96 -> dies you're going to use it in that keyhole right
there to get into the vehicle, at which point
380.76 -> there's still enough charge in the battery key fob
to start it but then you would have to replace it.
385.98 -> The battery is really easy to replace. Another
thing that I really noticed first thing whenever
391.56 -> I open up the Prius I've got it in my pocket the
doors are locked. So that whenever you press this
397.02 -> or whenever you touch the door handle there is a
tone now that it used to be a beep and now it's
403.44 -> like an electronic melodic tone. I'll show you
that in just a second but I just did this the
409.44 -> door automatically unlocked and it did that tone
twice beep beep and then whenever you want to lock
414.72 -> the doors whenever you're finished using it there
are two little stripes here on the door handle.
418.92 -> So all you do is and then the door locks that also
locks the rear gate. You can also make it so that
425.52 -> the rear gate unlocks. Whenever you unlock the
doors so here's what we're going to do you may
431.4 -> be able to hear that tone now but I'm just going
to hit it again so listen to this it's so cool.
440.04 -> I love that so here's that little melodic tone
that I was telling you about whenever you hit
444.6 -> unlock on the key fob. Isn't that great?
It's not just like an annoying little beep
452.76 -> and then whenever you lock it, so nice. The only
concern I have about that is that it's not loud
459.9 -> enough, it's actually really not that loud at all.
I'm sure it's something that you can adjust on
464.04 -> the inside of the Toyota in your settings to
turn that up but that's a pretty cool thing.
469.5 -> You notice the LED turn signals right
there. Let's go around the back now that
474.06 -> everything is unlocked and I want to show
you the LED turn signals from the rear now.
480.66 -> There's your signals and also take a look here now
that the rear hatch is unlocked. There is a rubber
487.68 -> button directly under here. Here's the Toyota
emblem rubber button here. You have a camera here,
492.78 -> Prius all along the back then you have little
dots here on the rear bumper. That's park
499.14 -> assist. That's what beeps if you get too
close to something and then we just press
502.92 -> this rubber button and the back pops and then
here is the back. I love the rubber mat here
509.82 -> the back kind of dips down and goes back up. I
guess that's fine. I don't know what the point
516.06 -> of that design is but I guess it gives you the
ability to store tall items, that's nice. Here's
523.8 -> your back seat. You do have a rear seat tethers
right here for child safety seats and then under
530.52 -> this mat we have this we can lift it up and then
there is a foam board and that has a tire pump
537.24 -> there and that's basically a tire filler because
there's no spare tire because of the fact that
542.22 -> it's having a spare tire increases the weight.
So weight reduction, no spare tire. There you go.
551.1 -> Look at this hybrid reborn. Interesting. You
can see that the opening right here is all tall,
559.14 -> kind of slender. There you have really, really
thick pillars here. Does not cause blind spots
565.14 -> in any way. There's plenty of sight you know you
can see very well from the inside. I just like
570.42 -> how the the back is really athletic looking,
super nice. Bringing it down there's another
576.24 -> shot of our camera and then it closes right up.
That's crazy that that's the rear end of a Prius.
583.74 -> I love that also notice that there's no rear
wiper. That is gone. Now it's interesting how
590.94 -> you get into the back door the handle is up
high. It used to be here on the bottom so now
596.7 -> you only have one set of door handles that
are physically on the door, the other ones
600.84 -> are located on the back door right there. You're
going to reach in here and there's a little rubber
606.06 -> handle and that is gonna give you access into
the back seat. Let's take a look at that now.
614.22 -> Now here is where the Prius is kind of lacking
back seat room. My my head is touching the ceiling
622.74 -> right now, my knees are touching the back but it's
gonna be fine for short trips. It's okay, you're
630.78 -> probably not going to have a ton of people in your
in your Prius all the time so it's okay. Um now
637.56 -> here here's another thing too, you're probably not
going to have a seat back this far unless you're
643.26 -> over six feet tall so this seat may be up a little
bit more. So it's going to accommodate people a
649.98 -> little more comfortably in this particular model.
The back seat is absolutely bare bones. There are
656.16 -> two point power points here to charge your devices
but that's it. There's not even a center armrest
663.54 -> nope not even a center armrest. So bare bones.
The material is nice, it's kind of hardy,
670.62 -> it's it's comfortable, it's soft but this is just
super economical. Not designed for comfort. I can
678.6 -> see the whole front. That's really nice but that's
about it. Side impact airbags of course all the
686.28 -> safety features that you need the back seat and
now let's take a look at the heart of the beast.
699.72 -> Now under the hood we have a two liter
four-cylinder gas electric Hybrid engine.
705.96 -> As you all know the Prius
always has been always will be
710.88 -> Gas and Electric in fact it says right here hybrid
reborn. That's the second place in the Prius that
716.94 -> it says that but here's the amazing thing about
this new Prius engine. It produces a 100 up to
723.06 -> 196 horsepower. That's incredible! The old Prius
had like four horsepower so this thing feels like
730.26 -> a race car compared to the old Prius. It's also a
lot more fuel efficient. It'll get like 56 miles
737.22 -> per gallon average. That's absolutely amazing
because vehicles usually whenever they become
742.92 -> more fuel efficient it comes at the at the cost
of less power. This has a lot more power and is
752.04 -> a lot more fuel efficient. It's just amazing
the way the continuous variable transmission
758.16 -> interacts with the engine is seamless. You can
feel of a little bit of a bump whenever it the the
765.12 -> engine cuts back on whenever you're sitting at a
stoplight or something but for the most part it's
770.88 -> seamless a CVT and an old Prius feels a little bit
weird because it feels like it's struggling and
776.76 -> you can hear that hybrid whine of the engine. This
one it it gives it to you right now and it feels
783.66 -> fantastic with the CVT. It almost feels like a
turbo Toyota has re-engineered the way the engine
789.54 -> and the CVT work together with all that power
fantastic combination. The inside of the Prius is
797.82 -> is pretty basic and I absolutely love that,
especially on this model. There's not a lot of
803.76 -> buttons because of the features that this one has
but you can see here that it's it's really really
811.26 -> nice and it's easy to to figure out and things are
just kind of located where they're supposed to be,
818.22 -> not a lot of guessing as to what is what. The
one thing that I see that there are two banks
824.46 -> right there. There's one there and then there's
one there that could be open. This screen is the
829.32 -> smaller screen. It's not the upgraded screen but
for the most part this is what the interior of
834.84 -> the Prius is going to look like no matter what
the configuration, the basic layout. I love the
840.12 -> steering wheel the way the steering wheel is is
laid out over here. On the left side is going
845.7 -> to be things that control the screen that's in
front of you directly. We'll take a look at that
849.78 -> in a second. Phone volume for the stereo voice
commands and then over here on the right side is
856.92 -> all going to be driving things like we you know
radar cruise control and your lane keep assist
865.02 -> and distance for the radar cruise. This is going
to be for audio. This is also audio so down here
873.3 -> on the bottom in these portions is audio voice
commands things like that and uh so that's the
879 -> steering wheel. Pretty basic, pretty easy. Turn
signal is here you can hear the clicker here.
885.3 -> It's kind of a mechanical tick. It's really
nice. Of course your windshield wipers are all
891.66 -> right here as well one of the neatest things,
this is the first time I've ever seen this in
895.68 -> a car. There's almost like a gimbal right here.
You see that there's a little arm and then this
900.84 -> operates on a separate one so you can actually
move that up all the way up and then still be
906.48 -> able to put that mirror down. I really like
how that works. That's that's a great little
911.88 -> way to do that because it gives you a lot more
flexibility with the rear view mirror. Super
917.94 -> simple, really easy. I like how the lights work
here. There's a panel there's no physical buttons
922.74 -> and the way those work is right there really,
really nice. This is your Toyota safety connect
928.02 -> stuff here. That's all subscription based but
it's free for a certain amount of time. So for
932.52 -> this demonstration this is what I'm going to
be using. I'm actually going to be using this
937.02 -> and this this is the back arrow. It looks like a
Pages icon but this is the back arrow that takes
943.92 -> you back a screen and then multi-directional up
down left right and okay. When you want to make
950.22 -> a selection I'm going to be using these two for
this demonstration. So like I said this is going
956.52 -> to be the primary screen that you see all the
time directly right in front of you using that
962.94 -> multi-directional keypad. I've just pressed
it left and you can see on the left side under
968.82 -> the temperature you have all of these different
categories from which you can make a selection.
974.16 -> That's eco Zone and so this tells me all of the
different things to make it make sure that I know
981.78 -> how it fuel efficiently I'm driving it can even
give you a little bit of a score there so you can
988.08 -> see. Right now it says EV driving ratio and that
just came down from like 80 to 76 that's because
994.74 -> I'm sitting in a driveway right now and the engine
is running. So it's running on gas engine right
1000.62 -> now so then I just pressed it that that right
there's my total average miles per gallon and
1006.92 -> then I can go here and just wait a second and now
there's my eco score is 79. That's pretty good
1014 -> and then I'm going to press it right again EV
ratio. There's my average fuel economy. That's
1020 -> actually what I like to keep it on. So I'm
going to hit the back arrow that Pages icon
1024.14 -> and oh that's something cool it actually took it
to just like a more simple screen right there. So
1031.04 -> that that whole screen now is obviously the
speedometer. I like the split screen though
1036.56 -> so I'm going to go back and then I'm going to
press down on the multi-directional keypad and
1042.2 -> then there is adaptive cruise mode so that's what
you're going to see while you're cruising and and
1048.86 -> using the adaptive cruise mode this lets you know
the amount of distance that it's going to maintain
1053.84 -> between you and the vehicle in front of you while
you're using adaptive cruise. Pressing down again
1061.58 -> um oh wait now let's press up and then I'm gonna
press right oh there's a compass that's pretty
1066.2 -> cool. So adaptive cruise mode and Compass are
all inside that second icon down. Here's the
1072.86 -> third icon down and that is my audio what's
playing on the through the stereo right now
1078.56 -> and so there you go press OK for source. So I
can press OK and I can then change the source
1086.12 -> using that right there then I can press
down again and so there's tire pressure,
1091.82 -> trip information, energy monitor. Oh I like that
there are two different energy monitors that you
1097.76 -> can use in it but I like that one right there.
Really nice. You can see on the very back side
1102.26 -> of that or toward the rear of the vehicle it's
showing how much battery is actually in it right
1108.26 -> now so now we're going to settings and this
is what I really recommend to get used to to
1113.72 -> program basically before you really start using
it and to really get used to it. So Lane departure
1119.96 -> alert and then I can press and hold ok to change
the settings of the lane departure alert system.
1128.18 -> So Lane departure alert system is on. Alert
option, the alert option is you can either make
1134.66 -> it beep or you can make it vibrate the steering
wheel. I like the steering wheel then there's
1141.5 -> alert timing do you want it to do it earlier or
later. That's that's a nice feature so that's all
1148.52 -> Lane departure alert. I'm going to press the
back arrow then I'm going to move over to the
1152.66 -> right side blind spot monitor is on that's the
feature that lights up the little amber colored
1158.18 -> indicator in your rear view mirror when someone's
in your blind spot. PCS is pre-collision system
1163.58 -> press and hold OK and then warning timing it's
about in the middle PCS pre-collision system is
1170.6 -> on. I always recommend keeping that on. Okay so
this next one PDA is pro driving assist. so this
1177.92 -> is the feature that whenever you're driving and
you're in curves and it can actually help steer
1184.7 -> you into curves like gently it's not like gonna to
be a real sharp curve or anything but it will also
1192.02 -> help provide braking assistance as well. So this
is actually one of those features that kind of
1198.38 -> works with all the other ones to kind of help
you drive more safely. So there you go. That's
1205.46 -> that. Then there's parking assist, that's the
feature where the bump the the sensors and the
1210.32 -> bumpers beep when you get too close to something.
RCTA is rear cross traffic alert, when you're in
1216.8 -> Reverse backing out of something that will beep
to let you know somebody's coming from the left
1221.18 -> or the right. Parking sensings pksb will actually
alert you whenever you're backing up and something
1229.1 -> is behind you and it that should not be there and
you don't want to hit it it will beep to let you
1235.28 -> know. Safe exit assist there's sensors in the
vehicle that sense whenever someone is driving
1241.76 -> up to you or about to drive past you and you open
the door it will say close the door or you'll get
1247.52 -> your door ripped off. RSA basically can recognize
street signs and that's what is right there you
1253.34 -> see the little speed limit whenever you're coming
up to a stop sign that will turn into a stop sign
1257.36 -> pretty cool feature drcc is dynamic radar cruise
control than vehicle settings and meter settings
1264.2 -> so that's a lot going on right there inside of
that one screen so I recommend getting used to
1273.2 -> that. Now let's take a look at this screen in
the very middle of the console over here on the
1278.66 -> left side. You will see navigation Music phone
vehicle and settings with a single push button
1285.8 -> volume. I love how this is push button and you
can actually turn the dial up and down. That
1291.2 -> is very fantastic profile not loaded guest mode
activated. That's fine. We're going to dismiss
1296.66 -> that experience. Drive connect, this is a great
feature but you have to subscribe to it and then
1303.02 -> it's a very Advanced navigational system. I really
recommend subscribing to that if you have one of
1309.56 -> these new when you go down here you can see your
settings for your radio. You can see favorites,
1315.5 -> tune and this allows you to search by number for a
station so nine two three tuned to station. That's
1325.64 -> a local station here it's called Rock 92 and it's
a great station that's FM so then you can see
1332.36 -> other stations right here and you can see this is
obviously scroll by touch and then right here you
1338.96 -> can see that it is combining FM and then XM radio
stations. You can also put FM or AM stations right
1347.6 -> here as a setting as well so you can combine AM
FM and XM all on one page right here. Really,
1356.66 -> really easy. Then you can hit scan, you can
put a heart by that and it will put it in your
1361.4 -> favorites boom right there. It's added. Now so
you don't have to like memorize it or anything
1367.76 -> you can simply go here put the heart on it and
it's going to automatically assign that right
1372.8 -> there. That's that's really, really easy to do.
Going back to the radio you that's that was tuned
1378.68 -> FM radio all right there all stations Christian
Classic classical country Mexican News Talk r b
1386.96 -> public Rock Sports. All those things that's all FM
so it'll find those automatically for you and then
1393.86 -> you can scroll here to see what else is around.
So cool that is so Advanced AM radio Sirius XM
1403.58 -> so this is memorized under favorites. Then there's
SiriusXM recommended for you music Sports Talk
1411.92 -> all channels listening history all right here.
Tick Tock radio trending sounds from Tick Tock I
1418.52 -> love that. So that's all your radio stuff that's
that's really really nice and easy to use as you
1425.9 -> saw I I just started kind of pressing buttons
and that's it then there's um Bluetooth device
1434.06 -> is not connected right now of course you have the
Apple carplay and Android auto. All that you could
1441.26 -> hook up right here. Super easy just hit connected
device it starts searching and then you you know
1448.52 -> right there search for devices so that's it that
is extremely simple. Then you go vehicle climate
1458.66 -> front and then options windshield wiper de-icer.
That's over here on the left side too. There's a
1465.92 -> physical button over here on the left side
for the windshield wiper de-icer. Really,
1470.06 -> really nice. So that you can thaw your windshield
wipers trip info I like this because it gives you
1477.32 -> real-time information about how you're driving
so you can drive it more fuel efficiently if you
1482.42 -> want to give that an effort there. Um that's
really nice energy flow that shows you real
1488.78 -> time what's going on. Here's the engine,
here's the battery, uh here's the battery,
1492.68 -> here's the motor and so you'll see arrows
going in and out and all that. They're
1497.84 -> blue when they come from the battery. They're
orange and red when they come from the engine.
1502.52 -> So they'll let you know what's going on in real
time with the battery the motor and the engine.
1511.76 -> A visual representation no vehicle alerts right
now and then here's settings. So this is where I
1519.14 -> recommend you know I told you I would recommend
going into the settings on the the screen that's
1524 -> in front of you, in front of the steering wheel,
and doing the settings there. I also recommend
1529.04 -> going and doing the settings here. So you're going
to go in, you're going to subscribe to everything,
1533.96 -> then you're going to be signed in not as guest
but as as your name and then you're going to
1539.12 -> go into settings right here and go under personal
info Bluetooth and devices manage devices General
1549.44 -> and start to mess with all of this stuff. This is
where you're going to really be able to customize
1556.34 -> how you interact with your new Prius. It's a great
thing to do so you know you've owned it a week or
1565.7 -> two or a couple of days and you have some spare
time you go in and you start doing this kind of
1571.46 -> stuff. Sound and media Auto Sound levelizer
that changes the volume according to speed.
1578.06 -> So if you speed up it's going to increase
the volume if you slow down it's going to
1583.04 -> decrease the volume. You can cut that off you
can do all kinds of stuff there sound tuning
1588.02 -> mid treble and bass and then you can also
put majority of the sound the focus of
1593.72 -> the sound wherever you want to in the
cabin using this. Isn't that great?
1599.18 -> I like it right in the middle then media display
cover art. That's called Gracenote. That's how
1605.06 -> you actually see the cover art once you're like if
your phone is hooked up and you're using Spotify
1609.62 -> it will show cover art. That's what that does. I
don't know why you would not want to display cover
1614.54 -> art but you can have that choice if you want
to. Then radio and then that's the fantastic
1621.32 -> navigation system. That's pretty much a basic
overview of everything right here in the middle.
1627.86 -> Then right here are your climate controls. Very
basic, very easy to understand front defrost rear
1634.52 -> defrost system off temperature control. So you
can push that up and down and then this controls
1640.16 -> the fan speed, this controls the fan direction,
recirculate fresh AC and auto. That is it nice and
1648.38 -> basic. Right down here's all your cup holders and
a little bit of storage. This is pretty neat you
1652.82 -> can just do that you can lift out that tray you
can wash it clean it up stick it back snap tap it
1659.78 -> down. Nice and easy, one-handed. There's a charger
here, lightning charger for your Apple devices,
1665.42 -> a cigarette lighter adapter charger. Then you have
a couple of cup holders there and then this last
1671 -> section is going to be your gear shifter. I'm
going to put my foot on the brake in order to
1675.74 -> operate it to take it out of park. You can see
Park is lit up right now but in order to operate
1680.48 -> this you just pull it left and then up to go into
reverse and then you pull it left and down to go
1688.22 -> into drive. And now we're in drive. You can see B
is uh straight back and hold it and now that's B
1695.84 -> that's like slowing it down using the engine to
slow you down. You go over here and hold it for
1701.48 -> neutral. We're in neutral now but you whenever
you want to put it in park so you're finished
1706.88 -> it's in drive now we come to a stop we're ready
to park the Prius. We just press this and then
1712.46 -> we pull this up in order to activate the parking
brake. Drive mode is here. I can press that and
1719.54 -> it says Eco. Then there's normal, then there's
Sport, and then there's custom. Sport really is
1726.14 -> feisty. That controls something called throttle
mapping and that makes it so the gas pedal is
1731.66 -> more sensitive so that makes it nice and feisty
when you're in sport mode. Normal reduces that
1738.5 -> so you have to push the accelerator down further
in order to achieve speed. And then Eco which is
1745.22 -> the drive mode it's in now makes it so that
you have to press the gas pedal even further
1750.08 -> in order to achieve speed but that makes it more
fuel efficient as well. I always use Eco because
1755.96 -> I'm a hyper-miling nerd and it's a Prius. You're
supposed to get better fuel economy so I use Eco
1761.72 -> whenever you're in eco mode though it's going
to take the climate control system down a notch
1767.78 -> because it's going to direct the Excess power
from the climate control system and make it more
1772.88 -> fuel efficient. So notice that like if it's super
hot outside and you're in eco mode if you push it
1779.24 -> up and go into normal mode you're going to get an
extra fan speed in that climate control system. So
1784.76 -> that would really be in my opinion the only time
to use normal mode then EV mode electric vehicle
1792.44 -> mode that's when there is a good charge on the
battery after you've been driving around you know
1796.88 -> 15-20 minutes and the battery has a good charge
you can hit that and you can be in electricity
1803.3 -> only mode. That's like for parking lots low speed
bumper to bumper traffic boom hit EV mode. Brake
1810.38 -> hold right here that allows you to take your foot
off of the brake when you're at a stop light or
1816.92 -> at a stop and but in order to activate that you
have to press it in and then when you come to a
1823.34 -> complete stop you'll see a little amber light on
the dash that says hold. It looks just like this
1828.62 -> and then you can take your foot off the brake at
that point and then once the light turns green or
1834.02 -> you're ready to proceed all you do is press the
accelerator. You don't have to press that again
1838.94 -> you do have to press this every time you start the
Prius in order to use it though. Traction control
1846.2 -> off right there. Then there is a little holder
right here cell phone perfect fit. The drive of
1853.88 -> the Prius is so much better than I anticipated. I
knew the drive was going to be different because
1861.62 -> of the natural you know horsepower bump and I
would imagine that there would have been some
1866.48 -> sound dampening materials and all that stuff
but the drive in it is so much better than I
1872.6 -> anticipated because it's not just about power
it's about fit and finish. It's about ride
1878.12 -> quality. It's it's about just how the cabin feels
overall, how the how the car interacts with you.
1885.98 -> The materials are plasticky but it's not
cheap. Your your eye is not drawn to anything
1891.68 -> in particular. It seems to me the driver's seat
is a little bit more snug I drive a 2015 Prius
1899.78 -> and the the driver's area feels tighter to me.
That's not a big deal and for somebody that's
1908.36 -> never been in a Prius before is if this is your
first experience in a Prius not a big deal but
1914.06 -> it just feels like there's a little bit it's it's
a little bit more confined. I'm I'm getting onto
1920.18 -> an interstate right now the uh speed limit is 65.
I'm accelerating right now with no problem at all
1928.76 -> I'm up to 66 miles an hour I'm going to press the
radar cruise control and the radar cruise control
1935.36 -> the lane keep assist, Lane Trace assist. The the
feature that it recognizes signs and and the speed
1942.32 -> limit and all that stuff are now active. I can
feel the steering wheel in my hand and it's kind
1947.48 -> of working itself so I'm just basically guiding it
a little bit. My foot is off the accelerator and
1954.26 -> it's just an easy ride there is a decent amount
of road noise from the tires and I I think that
1960.26 -> Toyota would do well to put more sound dampening
materials to affect that overall though it is it
1967.7 -> is so easy to drive. It's it's not totally like
self-driving by any stretch but it's almost like
1977.3 -> a hybrid self Drive in a hybrid. Right so there's
the hybrid powertrain gas electric engine battery
1984.26 -> but then there's like this kind of self-drive-ish
mode where you can fill the wheel in your hand and
1992.78 -> when you go up to a gentle curve on an interstate
you can feel it kind of working with you if you
1998.3 -> have all the all the features activated. Now you
can totally not use this stuff but to me if you
2004.12 -> haven't it's absolutely a game changer because
it makes it easier to drive the vehicle. Okay
2011.2 -> everybody that's gonna do it for our look at
the 2023 Toyota Prius. I hope you enjoyed the
2018.34 -> video as much as I enjoyed making it for you.
Again I would like to say a huge thank you to
2023.92 -> Impex auto sales for the opportunity to film this
Prius. Be sure to check them out on the worldwide
2030.28 -> internet machine but remember the most important
thing of all. Have a wonderful day everybody!
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNqWMQX0Jx0