filed in Hybrid on Apr.06, 2009
Get a deal on a Toyota hybrid today
Toyota has announced a bunch of incentives on its vehicles, including its hybrid cars. Incentives can vary depending upon your region, but the Toyota Camry hybrid is averaging about a $1500 discount and the Prius is averaging about $1000 discount according to Cars.com.
Check out Toyota’s consumer site for [...]
filed in Hybrid on Mar.21, 2009
Toyota’s ultra cheap hybrid?
For quite a while I’ve been calling out Toyota to come up with a small, cheap city Prius. A compact hybrid used mostly for city commuting when extra seating is rarely needed.
Well, Toyota might not have listened to me, but the buzz around the cost of the Honda Insight has gotten to [...]
filed in Hybrid on Jan.23, 2009
The smartest hybrid yet?
In a MSNBC article this morning, Dan Carney calls the Honda Insight the “best intersection yet of the plots for price, efficiency and practicality,” at least in terms of hybrid cars.
And, ultimately, I have to agree. Yet, it’s never that simple, is it?
I live in a congested, Northeast LA neighborhood. City fuel [...]
filed in Hybrid on Dec.30, 2008
As small as the Auris?
Toyota will debut a small, limited range electric vehicle at the Detroit Auto Show in January. According to early reports the new EV will be a small car intended for short range city use and it will cost about $20,000.
The new EV concept is to be based off a new subcompact [...]
filed in Hybrid on Dec.19, 2008
Not to be built in America anytime soon
Sales of hybrid cars, just like conventional vehicles, are tanking. Add in a significant decline in gas prices, and declining hybrid interest shouldn’t surprise anyone. Thus, Toyota will delay the launch of a new US factory to build the Toyota Prius.
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filed in Cars on Nov.18, 2008
Ok, I’ve never been one for sports cars. A minivan or a family sedan has always been more my speed, but the Toyota Volta is something else entirely.
Just the look of it is amazing, and it should be. For the design aspects Toyota partnered with Italdesign-Giugiaro . . . and it certainly lives up [...]
filed in Cars on Nov.16, 2008
The Toyota Hybrid X concept was unveiled at the Geneva Auto Show last year, to a great deal of attention and speculation. Toyota sees the Hybrid X as offering a new design language for its hybrid models, as well as showcasing the future of hybrid technology.
The Toyota Hybrid X Concept was developed out of [...]