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  • Just one Prius for Europe

    Mar 26, 2009 11:33 PM

    Toyota Europe has said it will not follow Japan’s lead by selling the outgoing Prius model alongside the new one.

    Toyota’s president Katsuaki Watanabe announced today that the current Prius would remain on sale in Japan when the new model arrives, suggesting that there would be suitable demand for the outgoing Prius’s 1.5-litre engine alongside the new model’s 1.8-litre unit.

    However, a Toyota source has told Autocar that the two models will not be sold alongside each other in Euro...Read the full article
  • Re: Just one Prius for Europe

    Mar 26, 2009 11:43 PM

    I stopped by at my local Toyota dealer yesterday to have a peek at an iQ and was promptly collared by the senior sales manager who was obviously keen to chat. I guess I was one of very few visitors recently. He was keen to chat about new models and confided that they were expecting the new Prius in showrooms "towards the end of the year"; that Toyota were definitely going to continue selling the current Prius alongside the new one; that their next new model was the sub-RAV4 Urban Cruiser that he expected to sell really well. I had a job to get away in the end and was almost tempted to buy a car just to make his week, poor chap. Mind you, he doesn't seem terribly well informed, does he ?
    "You can fool all the people all the time if the advertising is right and the budget is big enough." - Joseph E Levine
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