03-30-2007, 12:14 PM
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GreenHybrid Founder
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Real Name: Jason Siegel
Location: Houston, TX
Hybrids: 2004 Toyota Prius
Posts: 4,530
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Hybrid car market continues to accelerate
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Toyota, which once had months-long waiting lists for its market-leading Prius hybrid car, is now offering low-interest financing to move the now readily available model off dealers' lots.
Does that mean the bloom is off the hybrid rose? Or that car buyers began losing interest in fuel economy when gasoline prices retreated -- briefly, at least -- from the $3 a gallon level?
Far from it. Overall, the hybrid category now reflects more than 1.5 percent of all new U.S. vehicle registrations and is growing briskly, according to R.L. Polk & Co., an automotive information and marketing company.
Nationwide, registrations for new hybrid vehicles rose to 254,545 in 2006 -- a 28 percent increase from 2005. For the third year in a row, Toyota's Prius was the hybrid sales leader with 43 percent of new registrations. Toyota sold 107,000 of the roomy but fuel-efficient cars in the United States last year.
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http://www.dailybreeze.com/opinion/a...s/6741707.html
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