"As I pressed the starter button and the 2010 Prius’s hybrid-system monitors lit up, so did my daughter’s eyes. “Whoa!” she said from the back seat as we prepared to drive to school this morning. “Is this the kind of car a secret agent or James Bond would drive?”

“No, honey,” I replied. “James Bond drives an Aston Martin.”


My daughter pondered a moment.  “Isn’t that an old car?”


And there you have it: the simplicity of youth. In five words, my eight-year-old had nailed what makes the new, third-gen Prius so special."...Full review