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NEWS<br />
programs, the Toyota Mirai<br />
can be purchased outright<br />
($58,325 not counting<br />
federal and state<br />
incentives or other savings<br />
programs), or leased. It will<br />
eventually have to survive<br />
on its own, on whatever<br />
infrastructure it can find.<br />
After the first Mirai<br />
drove away, I got to drive<br />
a second one, on a long<br />
loop through suburban<br />
streets and a bit of Highway 80. I hadn’t seen the Mirai since I drove a<br />
prototype a year ago. With its dramatic swoops and creases, and its<br />
jowly front grille, it actually looks more space-agey than it did before.<br />
Toyota might take a hint from the 2016 Chevy Volt and make future<br />
designs less quirky. On the other hand, there’s no mistaking that<br />
you’re driving a different kind of car.<br />
The 2016<br />
Toyota Mirai’s<br />
exterior design<br />
includes<br />
dramatic<br />
swoops and<br />
creases, and<br />
a deep front<br />
grille.<br />
The distinctive contours and creases of the 2016 Toyota Mirai telegraph “geeky.”<br />
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