11377 Primes sold so far in USA this year!

Nice! probably a lot of cali hov people who only bought them for the sticker, and don't care to chat about their car.
So that's almost twenty thousand a year, not bad considering the supply constraint.

 

In the USA alone there were 17.5 million vehicles sold last year and over 250 million total on the road.

 

But it looks like the Prime is not selling as well as the older Prius was, during the high fuel prices...

 

That's impossible to conclude with inventories so different.

 

If they sell 15,000 this year, compared to 17,500,000 other vehicles, that is still less than one in a thousand sales. No wonder we don't see them in the wild.

 

I have one and I am not giving it back. I am still "Prime free" for seeing one in the wild. Have about given up. But I have to remember, I live in the middle of nowhere and don't get out much.

 

if you don't live in cali, the odds are astronomical. if you do, they are still very high.

 

Last Friday, including mine there were three roaming around here within a square mile (technically 4 as one parks across the street from my office). First time that's happened, though I have run into 3 while driving for a stretch.

Most I've seen back east was two on the road between Boston and Cape Cod. I thought that was pretty cool!

 

I have seen one yesterday on the NJ Turnpike between Newark Airport and New York City (via NJ Turnpike Extension)

 

My wife - a.k.a. the War Department - has seen three Primes the last four to five months... one with FL plates, one with TX, and one with IN. I'm thinking all of them were probably just "passin' through". As for ME? I ain't seen none!

 

Yeah, not too many Pri running around middle earth.

 

I read Toyota is planning minor face lift on 4th Gen Prius to make them look like PRIME. If that happens mimicry is going to make it harder to find authentic PRIME in wild.

 

In the Bay Area I see several Primes everyday, along with an assortment of Prius varieties (Gen I, Gen II, Gen III, Gen IV, PiP, C and V). I also see many Volts, several Bolts, a few Sparks, a ton of Leafs and a dozen or so Teslas (original Roadsters, Model S, Model X and a single Model 3). I see a variety of high-end sport/luxury card semi-regularly (Ferrari, Lamborghini, Maserati, Bentley, etc.). I even see a couple of Fiskar Karmas every once in a while.

I must say that the Prime does look much better to me than the Gen IV. One day there was Gen I, Gen II, Gen III, Gen IV and Prime all within view and even though I prefer the Gen III overall, the Prime looked 2nd best to me and is growing on me…

 

i love the lift back tail lights. was hoping they would add them to prime when they lower the hatch floor.

 

They need to keep that black grill as a Prime exclusive! The headlights are not too bad though.

 

I have not yet to see PRIME's Quad-LED projector headlights in action. Are they blighter than regular Halogen head lights?

 

In SoCal and see one almost daily now. They must all be inCA.

I bought mine just for sticker access. Good gas mileage and comfortable to drive just an added perk.


iPhone ?

 

Well, i think they would sell alot more if Toyota corporate would think differently....case in point...i tried to initially buy a prime at my local dealer...he would not sell the 2 primes they had...they said corporate wouldn't allow it...they had to stay in the TRAC (rental) program for 6 months...who in their right mind would rent out the prime to renters who have no clue of the prime or the prius ,for that matter,...as a prius driver since 2003, it took me 7-10 days to come up to speed on the prime...the typical renter would run the battery down, not recharge it...drive like an idiot, and beat the car up...i know when i drove their prime for a day...it was dead on the battery...mpg was 20 and all marred up ...i at least charged the battery up for them...(the cord was still wrapped up...had never been used)...so in order for me to get the prime...i hunted on line...found one 200 miles away...and went to buy it...the new dealer was absolutely floored that my close dealer would put the prime in the TRAC program...Insane....!!!...put corollas, camrys, avalons, one prius c and a tacoma in the TRAC program...not the prime...
so i think Toyota would sell more primes if they would keep the prime out of the TRAC program...given that the demand is higher than the supply...why screw with it in TRAC....btw the Chicago district is the culprit in this assinine decision on the TRAC crap...

 

I visited San Diego last year. The citi's entire fleet of taxi were Prius. I think they were mostly 3rd Gen models. Although with a tiny cargo space, I doubt PRIME is on the fleet.