Toyota Prius reaches 2 million sales milestone
September 7, 2009 by Matt Brogan
Only six months after reaching the 1 million US sales milestone Toyota’s environmental crusader, the Prius, has topped global sales exceeding 2 million units.
The first Prius came to the Japanese market back in 1997 before spreading to the US and Europe in 2000. The North American market accounts for more than half of all Toyota’s hybrid sales (1.15 million to date).
Toyota sells 13 hybrid vehicles in 50 countries, including hybrid versions of the Toyota Camry, Crown and Harrier, as well as the Lexus GS, LS and RX.
Toyota hopes to sell 1 million hybrids annually by early next decade.
To read about the new Toyota Prius, click here.
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2 Million sales! Nice accolade if you like the Prius. No Mention of Citroen selling 2 Million C3’s since 2004 and more than half of those were Diesel?
And before anyone takes a cheap shot at me I used Citroen as an example because they aren’t the most popular manufacturer in the world. Toyota seriously needs to do Global Diesel, they’d make more money if they did.
I hope Toyota choke on their Hybrid soup. All the smart manufacturers are backing diesel and plug-ins while toyota is still trumpeting on about their saviour the prius. I cant belive 2 million show offs actually bought this car. Poor things could have saved up a bit more and bought a base A3 diesel.
A3 Diesel huh? Now you are talking Shak, nice car!
What? Only 3 comments…?!? Normally a Toyota (Prius especially) story will have a 1000 “bagging” comments by now, lol.
Surprisingly the Prius is a well thoughtout car, on the ugly side yes, but the technology put into it means you pay much more for a fuel efficient car than you would from these new clean diesels.
Diesel will win out globally in the end, as it has done so in Europe, the yanks are always slow in picking up on the best products.
Diesel is not a long term solution.
It is closely related to petroleum that they become scarce and eventually “runs out”.
Hybrid is also just a short to medium term solution.
Fuel, as in petroleum/Diesel/LPG are all short term solution.
In the long term, for the good of the industry and environment… and for feasibility, sustainability…. “combustion” based energy source are no good.
You do know the Oil companies of the world are lying to us about the oil reserves ( so they can charge more for their product), yes it will eventually run out, but there is still plenty left, infact Australia has the equivalent of 24 Billion Barrels of Shale oil alone, god knows how much Canada has through sand extraction. But you are correct, it will run out and by the time it does Car companies will have developed a viable longterm solution.