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"Peter Granzeau" <pgranzeau(a)cox.net> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 1 Jan 2010 16:50:31 -0600, "Al Falfa" <crop(a)eastforty.fld>
> wrote:
>
>>"Daniel who wants to know" <me(a)here.edu> wrote in message
>>news:hhlsno$1dq$1(a)news.eternal-september.org...
>>> "Peter Granzeau" <pgranzeau(a)cox.net> wrote in message
>>> news:pa1jj553fq7hv71gar2m1flrrnqqd3eocl(a)4ax.com...
>>>> On Mon, 28 Dec 2009 09:37:51 -0500, "Al Sherman" <als62(a)rcn.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>What year is your Prius? I have seen 2004-2009 referred to as Gen 3 in
>>>>>the
>>>>>far east and Gen 2 in N. America.
>>>>
>>>> As I underestand, Toyota built a Prius which was sold only in the Far
>>>> East back in the '90s. The next version was sold both there and in the
>>>> US--hence the Gen 2.Gen 3 confusion.
>>>>
>>>> Better to use the year.
>>>
>>> Better still to use the model number.
>>> 97-00 Japan only is NHW10
>>> 01-03 is NHW11
>>> 04-09 is NHW20
>>> 10-?? is ZVW30
>>So, then, the 2010 is generation 30.
>>
>>Wow, a lot of generations don't make it market!
>>
> I think the decimal doesn't make it into the model number. Thus, ZVW30
> is version 3.0, right?

Perhaps, but then what about generation 1.1?