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Tommy Kaira Bodykit For The Toyota Prius Is Now Ready

Tommy Kaira Prius (2) copy

A few months ago we showed you Tommy Kaira’s renderings on their latest body-kit for the Toyota Prius and now it’s ready. What you see here is the Japanese tuning firms take on what the iconic hybrid car could look like if owners choose to walk down the tuning road. Sure hybrid vehicles may not be the sportiest vehicles but they could look really good with the right body kit. And since hybrid vehicles are slowly taking over the world, it comes as no surprise then that tuning firms are jumping onto the hybrid bandwagon.

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Among the first to jump on that bandwagon is Tommy Kaira and their latest offering for the Toyota Prius includes the new body-kit shown above, suspension upgrades, and of course, wheel options. Whether or not the body-kit is to your liking is subjective, but no matter, in a few months time Tommy Kaira won’t be the only tuning firm with a body kit for hybrid cars. We’re not too sure if any tuner will come up with a performance tuning kit, but because hybrid vehicles are supposed to be environmentally friendly, we don’t expect hybrid vehicles to be tuned for performance. Instead, we are guessing there will be a raise of the “eco-tuner” where tuners to compete to build the most environmentally friendly vehicle. Check out the thumbnails below to see for yourself it tuning hybrids is actually worth it.

Tommy Kaira Prius (3)

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Source: AutoBlog

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    fai2max
  • Jan 5, 2010
wow....danm nice !!
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    drMpower
  • Jan 5, 2010
holly molly nice.

whos this tommy kaira anyway? auto designers? or after market people?

and that big 18 inch rim, surely will put like unnecessary 10kilos easily.

still synergy drive?
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    netmatrix
  • Jan 6, 2010
If you tune a hybrid car without thinking why you bought such a car in the first place, you might as well but a full petrol car.
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    zeke
  • Jan 6, 2010
nicely kitted. awesome rear end.
hybrid powered with nice bodykit..good combination.
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    vl
  • Jan 6, 2010
tats y, get a hybrid and mod to beautify and make the car heavier without any performance mod to balance it? doesnt feels right
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    td
  • Jan 6, 2010
A set of 18" rims and a subtle bodykit can throw a car's handling away? Seriously?

Its a hybrid, not a 1.3 Proton.

Come on..
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    samso
  • Jan 6, 2010
Tommy kaira is my uncle Joe.. three cheers for the old man
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    netmatrix
  • Jan 8, 2010
To td, it doesn't affect the handling in a bad way. Just that the car would not post the best fuel mileage as a Hybird car anymore. So imagine you could go 1000km in a full tank, and after those mods, the car is registering 800km on full tank. If you put more stuff inside and drive like you have a turbo inside, the car resisters 500km on a full tank. Sure it is still low mileage compared to a lot of cars. But if you wanna mod to go fast why buy a hybrid? Isn't a Camry a better choice for the same amount of money?
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    wan
  • Nov 17, 2010
nice..where to get these kits huh?
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    Jeffrey
  • Oct 20, 2013
Very nice.. Where can i get this full set of Tommy Kaira body kit? Does it fit Prius 2013 (facelift) model?
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