Toyota Gave the 2025 Prius a New Nightshade Trim and Slightly Higher Price
The most recent Toyota Prius redesign turned the car from an awkwardly styled hybrid into a shockingly stylish car, but it didn’t lose the great fuel economy and practicality that made it popular to begin with. The 2025 model year brings light updates for the Prius, including a new Nightshade appearance package, but its price also climbed slightly higher for the new year.
Pricing now starts at $29,445 for the base LE trim, and the top Limited model starts at $36,460. All-wheel drive is available for any trim for an additional $1,400. The Prius Nightshade trim is available in a new bright yellow paint color, but more mainstream hues are available. Like the other Toyota Nightshade vehicles, it gets black exterior trim, black wheels, and other touches.
The base powertrain carries over for 2025. It includes a 2.0-liter four-cylinder engine and one electric motor, making a combined 194 horsepower and 139 pound-feet of torque with front-wheel drive. The all-wheel drive variant adds an electric motor for a total of 196 horsepower and 139 pound-feet of torque. Stepping up to the plug-in hybrid Prius Prime brings 220 horsepower and 139 pound-feet of torque, along with up to 45 miles of electric driving range.
Toyota equips a 12.3-inch touchscreen and its Safety Sense 3.0 driver-assist technologies. The car is well-equipped out of the box, getting Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, and Toyota’s infotainment system is lightyears ahead of previous versions.
[Images: Toyota]
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Chris grew up in, under, and around cars, but took the long way around to becoming an automotive writer. After a career in technology consulting and a trip through business school, Chris began writing about the automotive industry as a way to reconnect with his passion and get behind the wheel of a new car every week. He focuses on taking complex industry stories and making them digestible by any reader. Just don’t expect him to stay away from high-mileage Porsches.
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I will not buy a car with black rimz
Wonder if the plug-in version comes with all the compromises as the original while in EV mode? If not I'd take a serious look at one now that it isn't so hard on the eyes, heck just the opposite as it looks really good..