Filed under: Hybrid, Etc., Marketing/Advertising, Toyota
The world can now rest easy. Toyota has officially embraced "Prii" as the plural of Prius. The Japanese automaker made the announcement over the weekend at the 2011 Chicago Auto Show after inviting the public at large to vote for the phrase that best fit the company's new gaggle of hybrids. The voting kicked off on January 10th at the Detroit Auto Show, and while Priuses, Prius, Prium and Prien all surfaced as possibilities, Prii took home the majority of votes with 25 percent of the more than 1.8 million ballots cast.
To mark the occasion, Dictionary.com has updated its Prius listing with the appropriate word for more than one Prius hybrid.
Toyota has made it clear that the company intends to grow the Prius family in the near future with the addition of production versions of the seven-passenger Prius V and the more compact Prius C Concept. Now we just have to figure out what to call Prius drivers in polite society.
Hit the jump for the full press release.
[Source: Toyota]
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