Toyota's American museum reportedly has no use for the world's fastest Prius anymore. That is why it has now ended up at a junkyard in Dallas, Texas.
A piece of world history on four wheels must be done.
Toyota's museum in the USA has apparently decided to do so. In any case, Japanese Nostalgic Car can document that the world's fastest Prius has ended up at a junkyard in the city of Dallas.
There is also a Cressida from 1978, which belongs to the museum in California. But now both cars must be turned into tin cans. Maybe.
Because at Jalopnik , Toyota in the US has been asked to answer why on earth the two cars, and in particular the Prius, have ended up there.
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The fact that a Prius can create so much fuss is because the car is not just any Prius. Although maybe apart from the wheels and the ground clearance it actually looks like any other Prius that it looked like circa 2003.
In 2004, the slightly modified Prius, on which Toyota's engineers did nothing but the hybrid part of the engine, had a go at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah. In other words, as the first series-produced hybrid car ever.
But with a top speed of 130.7 miles per hour (210 km/h, ed.), it set a speed record. So for a Toyota Prius. A full 12 years had to pass before Hyundai broke the record.
But then an Ioniq also went a whopping 160.7 miles per hour. This corresponds to 258 km/h. The fastest car on the salt flat is not a car at all. At least not a passenger car.
ThrustSSC is instead two jet engines with wheels. But it is also enough for an official top speed of 1,223.7 km/h over a distance of 1 kilometer.
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