Unsold sea of hybrids

Unlikely. The stimulus plan has no incentives for hybrid purchase.

 

Actually, it does. I'm not sure of the scope, but the purchase of my 2010 Prius qualifies. I'll be able to take a federal deduction on the state tax that I paid.
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Reading this thread, I was curious & checked the dealer where I bought Fiona. They have 18 in stock 2009 Prius , 3 touring & the rest base models. When I bought mine in Nov 2006, the monthly allotment was about 12-15. I didn't check their used inventory.

 

So I checked their used inventory - they have 3 base 2007, all with approx. 30K miles and no 2006 used in stock. There is also a 2008 listed under new but with the notation to call for a price.

 

That incentive is not specific to hybrids -- most cars buyers will get it.

 

Washington State is waiving sales tax on Prius purchases. thats about $2000

 

Well, how about the new 10% credit for converting to a plug-in electric vehicle?

 

Even that number is so ridiculous I can't believe that you'd use your fingers to type it without engaging your brain first.

Our store is in the top 90 if not top 75 in the nation. We have 15 Prius' plus 15 TCH's. There are 1250 stores in the US. If every store was our size with our inventory - not likely - that would be 35,000 - 40,000 unsold Toyota hybrids. Now that number I might accept.

Except that most stores are NOT our size. Most stores in the US are 1/2 to 1/4 our size. OK that's reality. The prior reference to Longo..or to Laurel Carmax on the E Coast is much more relative. Longo is 5 times larger than we are and we are 2-5 times larger than the average store. If Long only has ~ 60 unsold Prius' and we only have 15 there is no way on earth that your 100K number makes any sense at all.

Just from a logical pov, they only made / sold 181,000 Prius in toto in all of 2007. In 2008 they were sold out - ZERO availability through Oct 1 2008. Now you want us to somehow believe that they shipped 100,000 unsold units to the US in 3 months????

Please, please don't embarrass yourself with illogical and unfounded statements. You make yourself look as dumb as the dope in the article.

No doubt there is a lot. But if it's 10,000 units I'd be shocked.

 

Good Grief! This thread hasn't come to an end yet?

600,000 - unsold hybrids
25,000 - unsold Prius
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575,000 - unsold hybrids (not Prius)
25,000 - unsold Camry hybrids
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550,000 - unsold hybrids (not Toyota)
5,000 - unsold Lexus 400h
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545,000 - unsold hybrids (not Toyota, 400h)
5,000 - unsold Lexus hybrids
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540,000 - unsold hybrids (not Toyota or Lexus)
5,000 - unsold Ford hybrids
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535,000 - unsold hybrids (not serious hybrids)
5,000 - unsold Honda hybrids
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530,000 - unsold hybrids (not serious hybrids)

530,000 - GM, Saturn, and Chrysler hybrids remain unsold!

(WARNING: Some of those remaining hybrids are made out of press releases and PowerPoint origami!)

The math is simple and now makes perfect sense.

Bob Wilson

 

3,000,000 million i say, lol.

Actually more hybrids are unsold right now than they were produced since Gen I .

 

Annual sales of hybrids in USA was around 250k-300k at max...

So that basically means they have stockpiles for last 3 years of sales

 

this thread is a perfect example of the effectiveness of mis-information... its simply an amazingly effective way of leading the masses

 

indeed... didnt the same happen with piece of how hybrids are selling bad in bad economy? And it turned out that they dropped actually less than non-hybrids, so they were selling better than non-hybrid vehicles .

 

Why bother with the facts when bulls*** is so much easier? Seems to work very well for the "media" these days

 

Heck I still haven't figured out why someone hasn't posted a picture of Long Beach Harbor off L.A. and written, "see all those container ships (outside pic's of ships only ... not from within the hulls)? Now you only know ALL those ships must all be full of hybrids ... tisk tisk"

600,000 hybrids . . . hee hee, isn't that about half the total Prius' ever sold world wide? gufaah! Thanks for the laugh & keep up the great journalism while I file this along side area 51 articles

 

Foreign Imported Cars Sit Idle At Port Storage Lot - Pictures - Zimbio

is the best I could do when trying to find a photo of all those Prius sitting at the Toyota marshalling yard. I do see a few in the sea of Toyotas.

 

Could it be that AutoNation meant there are 600,000 cars including hybrids sitting unsold in dealers yards?

 

That's probably closer to the truth, but why should AutoNation bother with the boring truth?

 

Q: What's the average number of days these unsold hybrids sit in the lot?

 

Well, lets do the math and see

There were 315,761 hybrids (all manufactures) sold in 2008 in the US.

315,761 / 366 (leap year) = 862.735 units per day sold

600,000 / 862.735 = 695 days or about 1 year, 11 month supply of hybrids currently on dealer lots.

With the G3 Prius coming out soon that figure will surely jump up above a 2 year supply, probably closer to 3 years, of hybrids on the lots