pFiled under: a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/garage/" rel="tag"In the Autoblog Garage/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/hybrids/" rel="tag"Hybrids/Alternative/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/green/" rel="tag"Green/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/hatchbacks/" rel="tag"Hatchbacks/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/toyota/" rel="tag"Toyota/a/pa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/2010-toyota-prius-review/2037791/"img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2009/05/prius2010_rev000_opt.jpg" alt="" //abr /div style="text-align: center;"span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"small2010 Toyota Prius - Click above for high-res image gallery/small/spanbr //divbr /When car buyers think of hybrids, the name that most often springs to mind is the Toyota Prius since it was the first really practical hybrid to come to market and has sold more than any other examples. Yes, of course, the original Honda Insight beat the Prius to market in the U.S. by about six months, but the tiny two-seater sold in equally tiny numbers and had limited appeal beyond hard core hyper milers.br / br / In the coming weeks, Toyota dealers will start getting their first allotments of the all-new third-generation Prius, and while we got to spend a few hours with one on the west coast in March, we just spent a whole week with the new version of this iconic Toyota. While the efficiency of the Prius has never been in dispute, like many other cars from Brand T, it's appeal as a driver's car has been, to say the least, limited. For the generation three model, Toyota has not given up on minimizing fuel consumption, but it has sought to make the Prius a bit more appealing on other levels. Read on to find out if the company has succeeded.br /br /br /div class="postgallery"pstrongGallery: a href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/2010-toyota-prius-review/"Review: 2010 Toyota Prius/a/strong/pa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/2010-toyota-prius-review/2037791/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2009/05/prius2010_rev000_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/2010-toyota-prius-review/2037772/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2009/05/prius2010_rev001_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/2010-toyota-prius-review/2037787/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2009/05/prius2010_rev002_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/2010-toyota-prius-review/2037790/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2009/05/prius2010_rev003_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/2010-toyota-prius-review/2037789/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2009/05/prius2010_rev004_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //a/divbr /strong style="font-style: italic;"smallPhotos copyright (C)2009 Sam Abuelsamid / Weblogs, Inc./small/strongpa href="http://www.autoblog.com/2009/05/27/review-2010-toyota-prius-a-miser-with-new-moves/" rel="bookmark"Continue reading emReview: 2010 Toyota Prius a miser with new moves/em/a/pp style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2009/05/27/review-2010-toyota-prius-a-miser-with-new-moves/"Review: 2010 Toyota Prius a miser with new moves/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.autoblog.com"Autoblog/a on Wed, 27 May 2009 11:58:00 EST. 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