Hybrid Car - More Fun with Less Gas

(AP) - Gurinder, right, and Kashmir Singh wait to enter a courtroom Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2007, in Stockton, Calif. The son of a 60-year-old Stockton security guard who burnt to death in his Toyota Corolla is suing the world's No. 2 automaker, saying the company's faulty seatbelt design turned their family car into a deathtrap. The suit is one of two cases proceeding in California courts questioning the safety of Toyota Motor Corp.'s most reliable compact models. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)

Well, let’s see: a new color - Spectra Blue Mica, as pictured here. A new 5th generation DVD navigation - DVD update, not hardware from what I can tell.
2008 Prius has narrower wheels - 5.5 in vs. 6 in on a 2007 model. An attempt to make them even less rolling resistant? The specs show the same tires and so the profile is going to be a tad different.
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(AP) - Toyota Motor Corp. staff demonstrates Toyota's experimental wireless safety features on a test course at its Higashifuji Technical Center in Susono, southwest of Tokyo, Monday, Nov. 26, 2007. One of the features shown in the photo warns drivers of approaching cars from other directions through beeping and the image of the car that pops up near the speedometer. (AP Photo/Katsumi Kasahara)

(AP) - The 360 degree computer graphic imagery of roads and landscape, complete with signs, pedestrians, street-side stores and faraway Mount Fuji — all synchronized to move with the simulated driving is shown when you are seated in the Toyota Motor Corp.'s new driving simulator for testing safety features during a press tour demonstration at its Higashifuji Technical Center in Susono, southwest of Tokyo, Monday, Nov. 26, 2007. A Lexus inside the 4.5 meter (15 foot) high, 7 meter (23 foot) diameter dome-shaped simulator provides the sense of acceleration, vibration and sound of driving a regular car. (AP Photo/Katsumi Kasahara)

(AP) - Toyota Motor Corp.'s new driving simulator for testing safety features is demonstrated during a press preview at its Higashifuji Technical Center in Susono, southwest of Tokyo, Monday, Nov. 26, 2007. A Lexus inside the 4.5 meter (15 foot) high, 7 meter (23 foot) diameter dome provides the sense of acceleration, vibration and sound of driving a regular car while the internal surrounding sides of the dome show 360 degree computer graphic imagery of roads and landscape, complete with signs, pedestrians, street-side stores and faraway Mount Fuji — all synchronized to move with the simulated driving. (AP Photo/Katsumi Kasahara)

(AP) - Toyota Motor Corp. engineer Takashi Yonekawa shows his project team's new driving simulator for testing safety features at its Higashifuji Technical Center in Susono, southwest of Tokyo, Monday, Nov. 26, 2007. A Lexus inside the 4.5 meter (15 foot) high, 7 meter (23 foot) diameter dome provides the sense of acceleration, vibration and sound of driving a regular car while the internal surrounding sides of the dome show 360 degree computer graphic imagery of roads and landscape, complete with signs, pedestrians, street-side stores and faraway Mount Fuji — all synchronized to move with the simulated driving. (AP Photo/Katsumi Kasahara)

(AP) - Toyota Motor Corp. engineer Takashi Yonekawa shows inside of his project team's new driving simulator for testing safety features at its Higashifuji Technical Center in Susono, southwest of Tokyo, Monday, Nov. 26, 2007. A Lexus inside the 4.5 meter (15 foot) high, 7 meter (23 foot) diameter dome provides the sense of acceleration, vibration and sound of driving a regular car while the internal surrounding sides of the dome show 360 degree computer graphic imagery of roads and landscape, complete with signs, pedestrians, street-side stores and faraway Mount Fuji — all synchronized to move with the simulated driving. (AP Photo/Katsumi Kasahara)

(Reuters) - Employees of Nissan Motor Co. work on an assembly line at the Oppama factory in Yokosuka, south of Tokyo May 30, 2007. Domestic car sales are weak, but Japan's big automakers such as Toyota and Honda plan to build new factories and increase output to feed a growing export trade to the Middle East and other smaller markets. (Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)

(AFP/File) - VW emblems on a production line at a Volkswagen plant. Volkswagen, already the biggest European car maker, aims to overtake Toyota of Japan as the biggest worldwide in 2018 by selling 11 million vehicles, the German magazine Capital said Wednesday.(AFP/File/John MacDougall)

(AP) - Jim Lentz, president of Toyota Motor Corp's U.S. division, talks about his company and its prospects at the Los Angeles Auto Show Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2007. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)