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Worldwide sales of gas-electric Toyota Prius hybrid top one million units

Business May. 15, 2008 - 02:19PM JST ( 5 )

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apecNetworksMay. 15, 2008 - 06:48PM JST

Oil is soaring up to $125 a barrel, and Toyota has state of the art fuel efficient hybrid cars **BEFORE* the fact!!!! How can this be????? apecNetworks knows.
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presto345May. 15, 2008 - 07:36PM JST

Good for Toyota, producers of the most reliable vehicles in the world.
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borschtMay. 15, 2008 - 08:38PM JST

Proud to say I bought one when only about 2 or 3000 were plying the roads of Japanburg. I bought the Prius because the RAV4 all electric vehicle was cost prohibitive (the price of the car for new batteries every four or five years.) Now the all-electric Mitsubishi i looks promising.
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GrouchyGaijinMay. 15, 2008 - 09:35PM JST

Went to Toyota today. EVERY Prius worldwide is fitted with a data recorder. Every oil change at a dealer, every hiccup, cough and spit is recorded and reported online (to the designers) in real time worldwide. Each new release of a vehicle has all the lessons learned incorporated. All I can say is "Wow!" Could we get Toyota to run the country?
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unscrejectsMay. 16, 2008 - 10:33PM JST

That's a million electic motors/battery contraptions that they can't recycle. Talk about environmental disaster.