Just wonderin'...Why no Prius advertisements?

[SyCo]

Originally Posted by john1701a

There's only 150,000 available. Advertising would cause a shortage.

Next year, Panasonic will have greater production capacity. That means more battery-packs for Toyota.

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Yes the batteries shortage seem to be the cause.

Here is an excerpt from Ford salesman:

about the lack of battery, here in Canada we have the same worries with the Ford Escape Hybrid, I take orders with delayed 6 months for delivery, we begin to write Model 2009 on our contracts, actually there are more requests than available vehicles, suppliers of batteries do not follow the pace…

[ny biker]

I sometimes see commercials for the Prius here in northern Virginia. In fact, I went out and bought mine in late April last year after seeing that they were offering deals that would expire at the end of the month.

I also see ads for the Camry, and sometimes they offer deals, but the ones I remember seeing are lease deals.

[priusuk2008]

Originally Posted by hill

Toyota seems to take a different business model to the Prius. Build it great, after a ton of R & D then let its satisfied customers sell it. It does seem to sell itself...

Couldn't agree more. I've only ever had 4 new cars in my life and 3 of those were (1 will be) Toyotas. The 1st was a Ford (ok, so we all get suckered once with the low price, extras and lots of glam ads) which was a heap of junk; it had an engine overrun when turned off and the guy at the dealership just said yeah, they all do that - funny it was never in the ads.

So anyway, having grown up and vowing never to be suckered again, the next 3 were Toyotas, a Cressida in the early 90's (poor fuel consumption, but beautiful ride), a Camry in the mid 90s (great fuel consumption, equally good ride and looked the dogs dooh dahs at the time).

Now flash forward 10 years and the next is a Prius, due in about a week now, From everything I've read and from test drives, I just know this is not going to disappoint me ever and will be just the same as the previous Toyotas I extoll the virtues of; bullet-proof reliability, comfortable, great value for money and the knowledge you havent wasted your money buying one new. I just love Toyotas, even when they weren't fashionable and I havent lost that love today, they're still brilliant - so who needs ads to be told they're the best bang for the buck any car owner will ever invest in, particularly the Prius ??

[Tech_Guy]

Here in the San Francisco bay area there are Prius TV commercials every night on the major network channels. The local Toyota dealers have plenty in stock.

Keith

[morpheusx]

As far as rebates go I once was told from a Toyota dealer. "Toyota doesn't like to do rebates as they already price their cars competitively, The other guys do the incentives because they have a poor business model and can't sell their vehicles without them"
Now granted that is coming from a dealer, I still believe its at least half true because if you go to Toyotas website they have alot of "good" incentives if you want a Tacoma or Tundra. If fact now that you mention it the only Toyota commercials I think I see are for the Tundra and Tacoma, go figure.