The 2023 Toyota Prius Looks Like a Little Toyota Crown

The 2023 Toyota Prius just had a major glow up. The stalwart hybrid from Toyota has finally gone through its awkward phase and emerged as a sleek four-door car that boasts the high fuel-efficiency we’ve come to associate with the Prius badge, but with a twist: Toyota says the latest Prius will be a thrifty car that’s also fast and fun to drive. That echoes a recent claim from the Japanese auto giant, which it made good on with its revived flagship sedan, the Crown.

And I can’t shake the idea that the new Prius is basically a little Crown. Call the new Prius the Crown prince or whatever cute name you want, but the latest model of the long-running hybrid would hardly look out of place in the lineup of Crown models that Toyota said it would be releasing in Japan at some point.

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Indeed, the new Prius looks a lot like the Crown “Sport Type” or the Crown “Estate Type” that Toyota teased when it announced the return of the flagship.

The new Prius just happens to be a smaller car that takes after its bigger sibling, even without the two-tone paint. The little shooting wedge Prius shares more than just the looks of the “full-size sedan” Crown. The Prius even looks like the Crown on the inside, and will also be built on the TNGA platform, though the size difference points to a different variant of the base each car will be built on.