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Cars.com experts walk you through the Toyota FT-CH Concept Car and its important new features.

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Toyota FT-CH Concept Car Hi! I am Joe Wiesenfelder with cars.com here with the Toyota FTCH Concept car. Now, we don’t know a whole lot about this concept car but it is a Toyota hybrid so we though we’d tell you a little bit about it anyway. Now, FT stands for Future Toyota as it always does and CH means Compact Hybrid. It is smaller, about 22-inches smaller from bumper to bumper than the Toyota Prius. It’s about as wide though. Now, the idea here is a smaller, more affordable and more efficient hybrid than the Toyota Prius. Four seats and they are very different seats. They are made of mesh, small and lightweight but this is very much a concept car interior, pretty fantastical, not very likely to be a real car the same goes for the shape of it. It’s a really dramatic Prius in the sheet metal and is strangely shaped rear window. That is really expensive to manufacture. Honestly, the idea is the real idea but in terms of actual compact hybrid, it's smaller. The Prius, this probably isn’t it. Now, even though this is a way out concept car, it’s not a real product. I think they have the right idea unlike the Honda CRZ which is an actual product that’s out at this auto show. It is a two-seater. It’s smaller than their inside. It’s also less efficient in the inside. Who knows how much it will cost? I think it’s a much better approach to have a smaller, more efficient, more affordable hybrid. I think that’s what hybrid buyers want. For more car related news, go to cars.com or our blog KickingTires.net.