TOYOTA PRIUS (2000-2003)丰田prius(2000-2003)
How green are you?你如何绿色? Seriously.认真. Think about it next time you fire up your present car.下次你想想看你现在火起来的汽车. Consider how much carbon dioxide you churn out, how much fossil fuel you pump in and what percentage of your car is recyclable.您认为多少二氧化碳流失,你多少化石燃料泵和比例车子可回收. We all know that the current ?consume now, worry later?我们都知道,目前?消费现在担心以后? attitude can?t last and some manufacturers have started looking at alternatives to the internal combustion engine.态度?笔上来看,有些厂家已经开始替代内燃机. One of them is Toyota, a company who has probably made the best fist yet of alternative fuel as a genuinely practical prospect.其中之一就是丰田公司大概有拳头尚未做出最好的替代燃料,作为一个真正实用前景. The Prius saloon is a petrol/electric hybrid that offers impressive economy and an unimpeachably green conscience.prius球馆的是汽油/电动混合unimpeachably带来了可观的经济和环保良知. What?s more, it makes an interesting used buy.什么?收盘更多,它能使一个有趣用来买.
HISTORY历史
The Toyota Prius was borne from a realisation that ever-stricter emissions regulations would eventually mean that conventional petrol engined vehicles would be legislated out of existence.丰田prius被传染从意识到越来越严格的排放法规最终意味着传统汽油引擎汽车将立明殆尽. This being so, it was important for Toyota to produce a workable option first and build hybrid expertise before the requirement was thrust upon them.既然如此,据对丰田生产建设第一此路不通杂交专门规定加诸他们面前. In ?getting their retaliation in first??领先报复? Toyota produced a very capable vehicle that neatly sidestepped many of the reservations that most motorists had about alternative fuels.丰田汽车制作了非常能干,整齐地回避了许多保留,多数驾驶人都对替代燃料. Launched in Japan in 1997, the Prius was a modest success but expectations that it would perform equally well here in the UK were dashed by sales that were extremely slow.发起于1997年在日本、prius是一个成功而温和的期望,它将在英国同样表现良好者被冲上销售极其缓慢. Part of this was due to the Prius?部分原因是由于对prius? high price, which was pitched in excess of £16,000.高价,这是定超过16000英镑. Yes, it may have been cheap to run, but a £10,000 Civic worked out far cheaper and more fun over three years.不错,这可能是廉价办、但公民出10000英镑更便宜又远远超过三年乐趣. Like its fellow petrol/electric hybrid, the Honda Insight, the Prius brought ingenious technology to market, albeit with an anvil of a price tag around its neck.究其喜欢汽油/电动混合,本田眼光,巧妙prius技术带来市场尽管有一铁砧代价坐狮. Toyota realised that the sticker price was way more than the market would bear but rather than merely slash the asking price, they replaced the Prius with a much larger and sleeker hatchback model in summer 2000.丰田意识到贴纸价格比市场将承担方式,而非仅仅削减但开价他们以取代prius大得多,装有hatchback示范夏天2000.
WHAT YOU GET 什么才叫 
Though from the outside, the Prius looks like a conventional small saloon, it?s actually classified as what the industry calls a ?hybrid?: in other words, it runs on a combination of electric and petrol power, theoretically offering the best of both worlds.虽然从外观上看prius常规宛如小型房、?实际收盘列为什么叫业?杂交?:换句话说,它结合挤兑电气电力和汽油,理论上提供两全其美. If at this point, you have visions of something painfully slow that needs constant recharging, then don?t worry: Toyota has worked hard to eradicate these drawbacks.如果此时,你可以看到一些十分缓慢,需要不断充电,那么顿河?笔担忧:丰田致力于消除这些弊端.
Let?s start with the basics.让?从基本收盘. The car can run either on its highly efficient, low emissions 1.5-litre petrol engine, its electric motor, or a combination of both.要么就开办汽车高效能、低排放的1.5升汽油发动机,其电动机、或者两者兼而有之. The ratio of power provided by each system is constantly monitored electronically (depending on speed and load) to keep the vehicle in its most efficient operating mode.比例分别提供电力电子监察系统不断(视车速和负荷)保持车辆最有效率的经营方式. The advanced technology means that the Prius is a genuine hybrid car that can run on electric power alone - not a petrol engine assisted by an electric motor.先进的技术手段,是一种真正prius混合电力车,独自行走不是一个电动马达辅助汽油发动机. Under certain driving conditions, the conventional engine shuts down completely and the electric motor takes over.在某些条件下驾驶,常规关闭发动机和电动马达完全接手. As a result, in many high-density traffic situations, Prius is totally emissions-free - the only car on the market that can offer this major environmental benefit.由于许多高密度的交通情况,prius排放完全免费的汽车在市场上唯一能够提供这项重大环境效益.
Equipment levels are high, including air conditioning, twin airbags, ABS, a CD/radio/cassette, alloy wheels, electric windows and metallic paint.装备水平高,包括空调、双气袋、ABS的一个影音/电台/盒,合金轮子,电动窗、金属漆. All of this makes up for the fact that the interior is a little plasticky and down-market.这一切,弥补了一个事实,即内陆小plasticky扎实的市场. Still, there are numerous storage spaces, a console box and the inevitable cup holders, plus a 60/40 split-folding rear seat.现在仍有许多存储空间,并安慰信箱不可避免杯持有另加60/40分裂折叠后座. Dominating the dashboard is a 5.8 inch central monitor which shows the energy status and recovery usage of the hybrid system.仪表板是主宰了5.8英寸的中央监控显示能源回收利用的现状及混合系统. It also serves as a general display panel for audio and, where fitted, navigation information.它也成为一般显示器、音频、凡安装,导航信息.
WHAT YOU PAY 您付出
Track down a Prius and you can expect to pay around £9,000 for one of the earliest 2000X plate examples.追查prius你可以预期支付大约为9000英镑最早2000x板块例子. 2001 Y-plated cars start at around £10,000.2001年Y型镀轿车10000英镑左右开始. You may find some pre-2000 Prius?你可以找到一些预-2000prius? about and these will be personally imported greys.约将亲自与这些进口黑白不分. If you want unstinting Toyota main dealer TLC for your charge, best to stick to an official UK car.如果你想你薄层不懈丰田经销商主要负责,最好坚持英国官方轿车. Insurance for the Prius reflects its ownership profile, being a very reasonable Group 8.它反映了保险业概况prius,是一个非常合理组8.
WHAT TO LOOK FOR 寻找什么
New technology has a tendency to produce a few glitches, but the Prius has been remarkably trouble free.新技术,有可能产生一些瑕疵,但已明显prius免费麻烦. The skinny tyres wear rather quickly and the regenerative brakes take a little getting used to, but apart from that a fully stamped up service history should see you fine.枯瘦的轮胎磨损较快和再生利用一点透露出制动器、不过,除了要充分看到你的历史烙印,服务优良. Toyota offered a five-year warranty and a novel private leasing programme on new Prius models, so your prospective purchase should have been well looked after.丰田公司提供了五年保修和新型私人租赁新方案prius型号所以你一直有意要购买的照顾.
REPLACEMENT PARTS 替换零件
(approx based on a 2001 Prius) Toyota parts once had a reputation for costliness, and spares for a ?specialist?(基于大约2001prius)曾经赢得丰田零件费用高、备件的?专科? vehicle like the Prius would once have had you hiding behind the sofa.汽车prius会像你曾一度躲在背后沙发. The news now is much better, an exhaust costing around £350 and a replacement headlamp will be in the region of £150.现在的好多消息,排气耗资约350英镑,将在该地区更换前照灯150英镑.
ON THE ROAD 在路上
The Prius isn?t exactly fast but rest to sixty in 13.4s on the way to around 100mph should more than keep you up with the traffic flow.prius的肖国?但其余60笔正快速在13.4s左右100mph的途径应该多陪你了交通流量. Other small saloons go significantly faster of course, but they can?t get anywhere near the Toyota?s 61.4mpg urban fuel consumption figure.其他小发廊会大幅度更快当然但可以吗?丰田笔哪里附近?收盘61.4mpg油耗数字城市. In comparison, an equivalent Ford Focus 1.6i manages 25.9mpg and even a rival diesel like VW?s Bora 1.9TDi is nowhere near with 31mpg.相比之下,福特焦点1.6i管理25.9mpg相等甚至像64+15柴油对手?宝来1.9tdi收盘远不与31mpg. The fuel savings, in other words, will stack up very quickly.节省燃料,换言之,将很快叠起. As for recharging, well, don?t worry about it.至于充电,那么顿河?笔担心. That?s the beauty of the hybrid concept: the batteries charge themselves from the engine as you drive along.为何?收盘美丽的杂交概念:从前面电池发动机作为主管你驰骋. They should also last the lifetime of the car.又要去寿命车内. Nor do the ownership cost savings stop at the pumps.也不所有制节省水泵站. At present, the only other hybrid car on sale here is Honda?s far less practical 1.0-litre three-door Insight coupe.目前,只有其他杂本田轿车售这里?实际收盘少1.0公升3门洞察力采伐. Though the Toyota can?t match that car?s fuel economy, it?s a lot more of a realistic ownership proposition.虽然丰田可以吗?笔赛,车?收盘燃油经济吗?收盘拥有更多的现实命题. Priced against similarly sized top versions of Focus or Astra-sized family saloons, it should just about carry five adults and their luggage.针对高层版本售价同样大小或雅特重点大型家庭房车、它应仅约五成人携带行李.
Enthusiasts won?t be amongst those targeted for this car, so it should be no drawback to the lack of a manual gearbox option.爱好者获胜?笔会针对此车当中,所以应该没有缺点在于缺乏人手变速箱选择. Instead, there?s a single dashboard-mounted gearshift lever which activates the fully automated transmission.相反存在?收盘单一仪表板装变速器杆激活了全自动化传输. Other steering column control stalks act as they would in a conventional car and the use of a foot operated parking brake creates a large walk-through area around the driver and front seat passenger.督导控制杆栏等充当他们在常规车用尺泊车刹车造成大拱门式一带司机及前座乘客.
OVERALL 总体
The Prius is the first genuinely practical hybrid car that we?ve seen.prius的混合车是我们第一次真正实用?虚拟拭目以待. If Toyota had been a little cannier with marketing and finance, there?s little doubt it would have sold far more than it did here in the UK.如丰田已经有点cannier与营销、金融保险?收盘毫无疑问会远远超过它在这里出售在英国. Some of the car?s pluses can turn in to minuses if you?re not careful.有的车?至收盘皆有弊,如果你能转?不小心重. To extract maximum mpg requires careful use of the throttle, and the Prius is surprisingly good fun to drive.需要小心使用最多的MPG提取的油门和驾驶乐趣prius是出乎意料的好. Pilot it with some enthusiasm and it?s a good deal more sensitive than many diesels are, returning miles per gallon figures in the mid forties.它的热情和它的一些试验?比较敏感的一个很好的协议许多都是柴油机、返回英里每加仑40年代中期的数字. As prices fall, the Prius begins to look an interesting bet, especially if you visit Central London with any frequency.由于价格下跌,prius开始寻找一个有趣打赌,特别是如果你到伦敦市中心的任何频率. The Prius is exempt from the congestion charging, thus potentially saving you a small fortune.prius是免交的收费拥塞,从而可能挽救你的小财. That will be enough for some.就可了一些. For the rest of us, the jury may still be out.对于其余的人,陪审团可能仍在进行.
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