 getting 50 mpg used to be a big deal like that car was like twice the average car's mpg when it was doing that 20 years ago a lot of cars are getting like high 30s and into the 40s and there's plenty of hybrid options out there now so they needed to do something more with the prius and when they redesigned it in 23 they did these weird characteristics for a prius to have okay they made it look good they made it