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06-19-2009, 08:29 AM
http://www.cleanmpg.com/photos/data/2/Japanese_Flag_30x22.jpg Toyota has slashed production costs for the new Prius by 30 percent, short of its 50 percent cost reduction goal. (bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601101&sid=azzLgcflctKM)
http://www.cleanmpg.com/photos/data/501/2010_Prius-III_coming_off_the_assembly_line.jpgMakiko Kitamura and Tetsuya Komatsu - BLOOMBERG (bloomberg.com) - June 19, 2009
2010 Toyota Prius inspected as it is coming off the production line.
AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi
A fantastic vehicle with tremenous value for the price (at least here in the US). Imagine the reduction in fuel use if a large population adopts it? -- Ed.
Toyota Motor Corp., Japan’s biggest automaker, said it booked 180,000 domestic orders for the new Prius gasoline-electric hybrid within a month of the car’s debut.
The company had set a sales target of 10,000 units a month in Japan, it said in a statement today. The tally includes 80,000 orders placed before the car went on sale on May 18.
The third-generation Prius was Japan’s bestselling car last month, surpassing Honda Motor Co.’s Insight. Hybrid sales have surged on the introduction of new models and government purchase incentives aimed at stemming a 19 percent plunge in domestic vehicle sales last month.
“Demand has shifted from Insight to Prius,” said Yoshiaki Kawano, an analyst at auto consulting company CSM Worldwide in Tokyo. “The tax incentives are definitely boosting purchases.”
Customers placing orders for a Prius as of today face a seven-month wait before taking delivery, Paul Nolasco, a spokesman for the Toyota City, Japan-based company said today.
Toyota has transferred about 1,000 workers to its Tsutsumi factory in Aichi prefecture from other factories and implemented overtime shifts in April to meet demand for the Prius. It will build... http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601101&sid=azzLgcflctKM
http://www.cleanmpg.com/photos/data/501/2010_Prius-III_coming_off_the_assembly_line.jpgMakiko Kitamura and Tetsuya Komatsu - BLOOMBERG (bloomberg.com) - June 19, 2009
2010 Toyota Prius inspected as it is coming off the production line.
AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi
A fantastic vehicle with tremenous value for the price (at least here in the US). Imagine the reduction in fuel use if a large population adopts it? -- Ed.
Toyota Motor Corp., Japan’s biggest automaker, said it booked 180,000 domestic orders for the new Prius gasoline-electric hybrid within a month of the car’s debut.
The company had set a sales target of 10,000 units a month in Japan, it said in a statement today. The tally includes 80,000 orders placed before the car went on sale on May 18.
The third-generation Prius was Japan’s bestselling car last month, surpassing Honda Motor Co.’s Insight. Hybrid sales have surged on the introduction of new models and government purchase incentives aimed at stemming a 19 percent plunge in domestic vehicle sales last month.
“Demand has shifted from Insight to Prius,” said Yoshiaki Kawano, an analyst at auto consulting company CSM Worldwide in Tokyo. “The tax incentives are definitely boosting purchases.”
Customers placing orders for a Prius as of today face a seven-month wait before taking delivery, Paul Nolasco, a spokesman for the Toyota City, Japan-based company said today.
Toyota has transferred about 1,000 workers to its Tsutsumi factory in Aichi prefecture from other factories and implemented overtime shifts in April to meet demand for the Prius. It will build... http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601101&sid=azzLgcflctKM