If your purchase of the hybrid was to use the HOV lanes with a single rider, you may want to stay on top of the DMV process and get your plate number as fast as possible to send in the completed application.

As posted previously, we just got our California HOV stickers and the number was 66,4XX out of 75,000. We bought ours in late May, waited for the plates, sent in the app in June and just received our stickers last week.

We noticed our dealer (Norm Reeves) even charged us an additional $28.00 to electrionically send our registration into the DMV. I called the lady who does their DMV and asked why so much and what does it do and she said without doing it electronically, it would take up to two months to get our plates (we got them in less than a month).

Maybe since your dealer charged you so much over MSRP, you can demand they do the DMV ASAP!

You'll enjoy the HCH II though, it's an awesome car!

2006 Taffeta HCHII with Navi