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Prius PLUS Performance Package Information
Introducing the Toyota Prius PLUS Performance Package
Sporty Fun Meets Hybrid Technology
For years the Toyota Prius has been synonymous with one thing more than any other: fuel efficiency. While for many of us (and the currently horrid price of gasoline) that's reason enough to buy the world's best-selling hybrid vehicle, others still need something more.
Take a 2011 Toyota Tundra buyer for example: it's not that they don't care about the fact that their vehicle doesn't get 50 miles per gallon (combined), but if you need power you need power! The same can be said of a person who can't bring themselves to buy a Prius; maybe they want extra handling prowess, extra power, and a sportier facade when considering their new Toyota.
Well soon that choice will be obsolete.
Handy Toyota of St. Albans, VT - your new and used Toyota dealership serving Burlington, Plattsburgh, and Essex - would like to introduce you to the next evolution of the Hybrid Synergy Drive platform.
Introducing the Toyota Prius PLUS Performance Package
The Prius PLUS Performance Package:Taking the hybrid to the next level
Introducing the Prius PLUS Performance package, the next level of hybrid performance and design. The Prius PLUS package is a sportier, performance-driven evolution of the already amazing Toyota Prius, one where fuel efficiency co-exists in perfect harmony with aggressive body and wheel styling, ground effects kit fittings, a lowering of the springs and rear sway bar, 17-inch split five-spoke forged aluminum alloy wheels with low-profile, street performance tires, all accentuated with a customized Prius PLUS exterior badges and Prius PLUS logo carpet floor mats.
The Prius PLUS Performance package was created and developed for the customer who demands more styling, performance, enhanced handling, and overall an exhilaration factor of 11 out of 10 when it comes to saving the environment one mile at time. By delivering the fuel efficiency drivers in today's world need with the styling and design they demand, the Prius PLUS Performance package is set to be the end all be all of the Hybrid World.
Now allow Handy Toyota to be the first to introduce you to the different properties of the 2012 Toyota Prius with a PLUS Performance package upgrade.
The Ground Effects Kit on the
Prius PLUS Performance Package
Prius PLUS Performance Package
Let's face it: is the look of your car what matters in a rainstorm when you need to remain glued to the road? Is it what matters when you're trying to power up a steep hill in the backwoods of Vermont? Is it what people will be talking about when you pass them at the pumps? Well, when we're talking about a Prius bearing the PLUS Performance package, you can bet all those things are one in the same!
On the outside of the Prius PLUS Performance hybrid vehicle, the PLUS Performance package comes with a full seven-piece ground effects kit to deliver an aggressive, low-profile stance. Customized exclusively for the Prius PLUS Performance package, Toyota Motors aerodynamically engineered the body kit to do two things, each of which is fully perfected herein: reduce the vehicle's coefficient of drag and maintaining its already great fuel efficiency while add the flare needed to stand out in a world full of different makes and models. Featuring a 360-degree, low-profile, uniform design, this is one ground effects kit that is sure to be a crowd pleaser.
Passersby may also notice the fact that the Prius PLUS Package sits lower than a non-PLUS edition Prius; by lowering the vehicle, Toyota created a smaller recirculation zone - an area of low velocity and unsteady air flow - behind the front wheel well. By reducing this area, the drag coefficiency is thereby lowered properly, enhances the performance of the vehicle while never allowing the high mileage marks to waver.
So not only does the lowered body kit lessen the drag coefficiency and look ridiculously sharp, it also enhances the flow of air through to the end of the vehicle. Before you think to yourself well isn't that the same as lowering the coefficient of drag?, please note that while it is similar it has a third benefit or outcome. By designing the Prius PLUS Performance package's ground effects kit in this manner, the lower-profile diffuser offers increased velocity while also reducing the intensity of the wake created by the air. What has essentially happened is the old "hot knife through butter" saying, where the Prius is the hot knife and the air is butter, and you get a much smoother ride in the process.
True Curb Appeal: The 17-inch 5-spoke Forged Aluminum Alloy
Wheels and Low-profile Tires of the Prius PLUS Performance Package
Wheels and Low-profile Tires of the Prius PLUS Performance Package
What kind of speed demon doesn't have a set of race-quality alloy wheels and street performance tires on their vehicle? Having anything else just ruins the whole idea, both performance-wise and in terms of appeal.
The Prius PLUS Performance package comes ready to go with a set of race-inspired 17-inch, split five-spoke, forged aluminum alloy wheels, a set of rims that will make the most expensive aftermarket brand hang their head in shame. Better yet, on top of these sterling alloys fits a snug set of low-profile tires made of purebred street performance rubber.The forged aluminum alloy construction is superior to the traditional cast iron/steel wheel because of the superior qualities of aluminum: not only is it incredibly light compared to steel but it is actually infinitely stronger. This mixture of strength and grace in turn makes the wheel - and the tire attached - able to respond quicker, with less suggestion, and overall better. Furthermore with the aluminum alloy's enhanced strength to weight ratio, the unstrung weight is reduced, giving the driver not only total precision but unmatched control when turning and handling is involved.
Finally, in order to preserve the look of you fancy new Prius PLUS Performance package great for years to come, these forged alloy wheels are sprayed with a protective finished comprised of liquid metal. This allows your alloys to prevent rusting (as well as other blemishes like dings and scratches) for years to come!
Greener Control of the Road... but Still Gas Mileage, Too
The Prius PLUS Performance Package allows drivers to do one thing that former versions of the Prius didn't do quite as well: combine hugging trees with hugging roads.
At this point we are all aware of the benefits of the Prius' Hybrid Synergy Drive platform, but some would-be Prius owners have forgone their desire for 50+ miles per gallon due to the higher performance of a less efficient vehicle. Now with the Prius PLUS Performance package from Toyota, hybrid will no longer mean "fuel efficient but lacking power" as you'll be treated to excellent, pavement-gripping traction and handling that will surprise even the most jaded Prius naysayer and motor enthusiast alike - all while remaining true to the Prius and Hybrid Synergy Drive platform's ideology of eco-friendly driving at an affordable price.
Let's take a look at some of the ways the 2012 Toyota Prius PLUS enhances the ride of the Prius.
Lower Springs KitThe track-tuned and repeatedly tested and stress tested lowering springs on the Prius PLUS have a higher spring rate and lower the vehicle slightly 1.1 inches in the front and 1.3 inches in the rear. This results in a quicker turn-in, superbly enhanced steering responsiveness, and overall improved cornering.
Rear Sway Bar KitThe Prius PLUS Performance package comes with a tuned rear sway bar which aids in body lean reduction. This means when you approach a corner, your Prius PLUS will remain flatter, thereby improving handling in areas like cornering and maneuverability. For example, have you ever approached a turn at too high a speed and felt the car tilt? Though we don't condone this kind of reckless driving (as it's obviously dangerous), the Prius PLUS reduces the threshold where this would occur, increasing drivability or the ever-important "fun factor" of a the car. Since the sway bar is constructed of a high strength carbon-spring steel you can rest assured it will take a pounding, and the powder coating enhances the longevity of the rear sway bar by preventing corrosion and road damage, the former of which is significant with Vermont, New Hampshire, and northern New York and Massachusetts salt-covered winter roads.
Performance is King, But Looking Like the King is Part of the GameFrom efficiency to design, the 2012 Toyota Prius with a PLUS Performance package looks as though it fully fits the description of both parts. By retaining the tried-and-true Prius form and adding some minor aesthetics such as the mentioned body skirts, ground effects, and a new 2012 Prius redesign, nary a spectator can say anything less than good things about this perfect combination of form and sporty function. Finishing off this exciting evolution, custom Prius PLUS badges are added for an exclusive look that is combined with a set of limited edition Prius PLUS carpet floor mats for that extra customized touch of class.