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hey it's chris from the verge and we are here in the blazing heat of Las Vegas desert to see the 2016 Toyota Prius now this is an all-new Prius it's just a refresh as you can tell it's a very unusual looking car free assistance have always been a little strange looking but I think that they've taken it to another level here and it shows at the front as a back and on the sides let's take a closer look let's start with the back of this car kind of has a mere I look to it as you might remember the muri is to it is new hydrogen car that they're selling in California and eventually going to sell the Northeast Corridor now you would think that that might mean the Toyota can back off the extreme looks at the Prius and save those for the muri but apparently not I mean look at these taillights look at the back end of this car it's kind of insane and the craziness kind of continues on the front of this car to you have this this almost angry human look with the knows where the Toyota logo is you got a mustache you got a mouth a well-defined mouth and then you have these really wild eyes that are these these compound curve headlamps with with these angles that shut down it's a really strong look not necessarily the most attractive car in the world but you're not going to forget it you're not going to think this is anything else but a Prius alright so let's check out the inside of the car so the inside of the 2016 Prius might look a little familiar it's not a lot different from the outgoing Prius in that you don't have an instrument cluster right in front of the driver it's in the center where you have two LCD clusters and warning lights and a clock below you have the navigation system climate control and then this really weird placement for the transmission joystick kind of makes me want to play a game and then you have this this white sort of pearl essence around that's very interesting and very striking almost reminds me of the first generation volt down below you have a Qi charging pad for a phone this is wireless charging that exactly fits an iphone 6 plus of course that's not going to do me a lot of good since the six plus doesn't support wireless charging but if it did that would be a perfect place for it cup holders pretty comfortable overall next quick look at the 2016 Prius still a lot of unknowns we don't have exact fuel economy numbers Toyota's saying something in the range of ten percent better than the outgoing model so a modest improvement not revolutionary change we don't have exact pricing and we don't have an exact availability date although to it is saying early next year for that there's also more Prius news worth coming there's going to be the Eco model the toyota says is going to have better fuel economy than this model which is not a plug-in the one we're looking at here is not a plug in the old Prius does have a plug-in model we're not seeing that here yet so more Prius news in the pipeline but for now from Las Vegas that's it with the 2016 Prius