{"id":35599,"date":"2026-01-27T11:05:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T15:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/?p=35599"},"modified":"2026-01-27T11:05:56","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T15:05:56","slug":"payne-toyota-prius-nightshade-looks-hot-drives-easy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/payne-toyota-prius-nightshade-looks-hot-drives-easy","title":{"rendered":"Payne: Toyota Prius Nightshade looks hot, drives easy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><em>Charlevoix<\/em>\u00a0\u2014 The Toyota Prius is really getting cheeky.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">America\u2019s favorite green nerd car underwent a fourth-generation transformation in 2025 from ugly duckling to swan. Sleek fascia. Scalloped flanks. Horizontal rear taillight. I saw your head swivel when I sailed by.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">For 2025-26 it got a hot Nightshade edition. Take a look at my hot hatch tester (also being featured at the Detroit Auto Show) with yellow paint, black wheels, black mirror caps. It\u2019s a look familiar to enthusiast hellions like the Honda Civic Si and Ford Mustang that offer look-at-me Skittle colors.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/gcdn\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2026\/01\/20\/PDTN\/88260175007-toyota-prius-nightshade-side.jpg?width=660&amp;height=347&amp;fit=crop&amp;format=pjpg&amp;auto=webp\" alt=\"Nerd no more. The sleek, coupe-like shape of the 2026 Toyota Prius Nightshade.\" width=\"550\" height=\"289\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"gnt_pg_img_cap\"><em>Nerd no more. The sleek, coupe-like shape of the 2026 Toyota Prius Nightshade.<\/em><\/div>\n<p><em>Henry Payne, The Detroit News<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/story\/business\/autos\/2026\/01\/21\/review-toyota-prius-nightshade-looks-hot-drives-easy\/88256598007\/\">Read full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charlevoix\u00a0\u2014 The Toyota Prius is really getting cheeky. America\u2019s favorite green nerd car underwent a fourth-generation transformation in 2025 from ugly duckling to swan. Sleek fascia. Scalloped flanks. Horizontal rear taillight. I saw your head swivel when I sailed by. For 2025-26 it got a hot Nightshade edition. Take a look at my hot hatch [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,87],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35599"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35599"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35605,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35599\/revisions\/35605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}