Toyota Prius

The new Prius, debuted in the U.S. in early 2003, already well ahead of the old car in popularity. Innovation has become much more spacious, and her body has an original design and a aerodynamics. On the new model of running an upgraded powerplant THS second-generation 1.5-liter gasoline engine and 76 hp higher power, coaxial with it motor of 50 kW (68 hp), the continuously variable mechanical transmission ECVT Electroshiftmatic electronically controlled nikelmetallogidridnoy battery. In the full use of the image of the Prius as a passenger vehicle of the future engineers "saturated" the car by a set of electronic devices, from remote "recognition" of his driver and ending with the world's first dynamic stabilization system when driving with S-VSC "active" steering and electronic "helper" when parking the car ITS.