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Hi prius owners

 

nice car

 

Looks good. Let's get this where people are likely to see it.

 

The photo is almost certainly digitally edited -- but that doesn't necessarily mean the information is not accurate.

Many years ago I did some work at an auto-maker and I worked with someone who did some of their graphics touch-up work for web content. What I learned is that photos which are intended to be published are almost _always_ edited.

You'll notice there are absolutely no cracks or oil stains on the parking lot. There are no telephone poles or wires anywhere, the reflections in the car body show no hint of reflections of other cars or even camera tripods or the photographer (though the angle of the photo would probably not show much of a hint of the photographer's reflection anyway). These things would normally be cleaned up in any photo which was intended to be published but that's just because they want the photo to look pleasing -- there's no dishonesty (it's not like they edit the car design itself). In photos produced for brochures or advertisements the background is often completely fake (you see those picutres of 4x4s sitting on top of canyons -- you don't *really* believe they drove it up there do you? The entire setting is fake. The setting in this photo is probably real, but any unattractive blemishes of real-life settings would have been removed.

The rims and tires are what I noticed first. The car in the photo has sports-car rims with low-profile tires. I've never seen a Prius with rims or tires like that.

 

I'd be thrilled if they'd just recognize that average heights have been increasing and decide to give us 2 more inches of front seat legroom. The steering wheel should also telescope out a few inches to accomadate those with long legs but not necessarily long arms (not as uncommon as you might think).

I don't have any problems with the blind-spot in the rear -- but the auto-dimming mirror sure does. In my previous cars the auto-dimming mirror actually worked. In the Prius, the rear spoiler seems to be at the perfect height to protect the light sensor on the mirror from seeing the headlights of the car behind me and preventing the mirror from dimming. Unfortunately *I* can still see the headlights of the car behind me in the un-dimmed mirror.

 

I posted that pic at CleanMPG some time ago. It's an artist's representation of the next Prius. It's a guess. Nothing more.

 

The original picture was posted in January...
http://www.worldcarfans.com/spyphoto...n-toyota-prius
It is copyrighted and says "worldcarfans.com only".

Ken@Japan

 

Very true. Many times, "mules" have camouflage on them. With the ease of digital editing these days, magazines attempt to remove the camouflage before printing the pic. Of course, what is under any camouflage is guessed at, but the rest of the pic is usually accurate.

 

Here is the real thing……