Toyota's 7-Seater Prius+ MPV to Launch in the UK in July with Prices Starting from £26,195

Toyota has officially opened the order books for its new Prius+ in the UK ahead of the minivan's market launch on 9 July. There are two available equipment grades, the base T4 that is priced at £26,195 and the T Spirit that costs £29,495.

While it's based on the North American market five-seat Prius V, the European Prius+ features an additional third row of child-sized seats and a more efficient and compact set of lithium ion batteries that are positioned within the center console.

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New Toyota Prius V Minivan Sales Off to a Good Start in the States

With the presentation of the Prius V minivan last year, Toyota effectively gave birth to a new sub-brand of models borrowing the name of its first hybrid vehicle.

The move has proved to be successful with Toyota revealing that it sold 8,399 units of the Prius V from the last week of October (that's when it arrived in dealerships across the States) through the end of December 2011, according to Carly Schaffner, a spokesperson for the automaker.

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