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Originally Posted by VCDJ
Hey rick and lutz. Hybrids are joke right.? they are just marketing tool? Toyota can not produce enough of them. Do you people see how bad gm management is? O yea we get two mode tahoe that gets 20 mpg. with price of fuel over $4 per gallon no wonder nobody is buying two mode hybrids.
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Yes, GM dropped the ball on this one, I'll give you that, but when the Prius hit the market 7 years ago, it WAS a marketing tool. It was sold as a way to reduce greenhouse gases, not as a fuel-efficient car. Now that fuel economy is trumping horsepower - for some people, not all, I am not implying that no one cares about horsepower - GM is behind the curve. So is Mitsubishi, Ford, Mazda, VW, Volvo....well, pretty much everyone that is not Honda or Toyota, the only two offering hybrid cars. I am not counting Nissan because the Altima hybrid is pretty much a reskinned (hehehe) Camry Hybrid with a Nissan ICE. Why don't people rip on the other companies that aren't selling hybrid cars? Ah. Because it's fashionable to hate the Detroit Big Three.
As for Prius' selling 'hours after hitting the lot'...not so much back here. There's about 35 of them sitting at Performance Toyota in LaVista. They aren't
that popular back here. Sure, there's quite a few of them, my neighbor has one, but they aren't selling out in mere hours nor are they selling for a premium. Yet.