Comments on: Toyota Unveils New Prius Boasting 50 MPG

Automaker Hopes To Keep Prius The Top-Selling Hybrid On Market

[straightmate]

Yes, yes please buy more toyotas. That way we can give the Big 3 stooges more money a year or two from now when they back to congress whining that their *********'' won''t sell.

[walt1944-2009]

Thanks to 8 years of the soon-to-be Ex-Great Emperor Bush II, we will all be wearing homespun, using horse and buggies to get where we want to go, growing our own food in the back yard, using windmills to generate power, and heat our homes (those of us who will still have homes) with wood-burning stoves.

Meanwhile the former Great Emperor Bush II will be dinning in style together with the rich and powerful of Corporate America and scheming what else he can
S-C-R-E-W UP next!

The neocon Fascist Nazi Republican version of the "American Dream"!

SIG HEIL, YOU WON''T CATCH ME EATING PEANUT BUTTER & JELLY SANDWICHES!!!, BUSH!!!

[sleepyric]

if the government would give me a bailout, say $25K, I''d be happy to buy a new honda or prius! :O)

[kutyadog1]

The Prius is the uglyest thing in the world. Plus, there is no room for 2 100lb dogs. Love my Honda that gets great gas milage.

[b4ucmyi]

Yeah, who they gonna sell ''em to? Stack ''em up, baby, on top of the unsold SUVs. MORE BAILOUTS PLEASE!

[downtowner97]

The VW Golf, Jetta and Beetle with the turbo diesel engine all get 50 mpg with better styling, longer range, and only one starting battery to maintain. The Prius batteries are the worst kind of toxic waste when they fail, and they are ridiculously expensive to maintain. The Volkswagens rate better in crash tests, and can be run on biodiesel, which is domestically made, and clean burning.

[wwudiver]

Such a joke- this was possible 70 years ago and exceeded 15years ago with small American cars. What waste of resources, time and press. CBS and toyota suck corporate schell ...

[fauxnewscom]

I suppose when cars get 100mpg, then gasoline will be $10 per gallon. The only way to beat the oil monopoly is with totally electric vehicles. More efficient batteries would put the "oil crisis" into the history books.

[andylance1]

Toyota puts GM to shame. GM is too little too late. When is GM going to wake up and get rid of that ugly bowtie emblem? It completely destroys the look of the new Camaro. It is possible that GM can be saved, but not with that ugly bowtie and not with Wagoner.

[chipper777]

Fifty miles per gallon is still not that good! How about some rich fat cat producing the fuel to put the octane back into the fuel they removed years ago? They dilute the fuel and and then say great mileage won''t work! How about someone with power to force fuel companies to increase the octane, so cars will get 100-200 MPG. This is also why they went to fuel injected vehicles and fuel monitoring computers so you can not get the good mileage that the conventional carburater could get. Car companies and oil companies are toying with everyone. Then if you want good mileage rig you have to pay higher price again.

[papasuenie]

I just bought a 2008 about 5000 miles ago, if I can trade for the 09 with not to big a $$ increase, I''ll be happy as pie. I''m on medicare and could draw SS, and have always bought USA, but today you have to earn loyalty with quality and value. US Auto makers-- WAKE UPt

[mainedoggie]

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A generation late? I think not. It''''s faraway the best-selling hybrid in America. The new model is more fuel-efficient AND more powerful AND still costs about the same as the old one.

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And doing so didn''t require a BAILOUT. (It''s not a bailout, it''s a loan... blah, blah, blah)

[regats-2009]

Hate to tell ya every Toyota sold in the U.S. is made here so they are no longer an import.
Posted by demswin08 at 03:37 PM : Jan 12, 2009

Most Toyotas are made in the USA but the Prius is made in either Japan or China.

http://www.autobloggreen.com/tag/prius-japan/

[blog_fever2]

Much ado about nothing... our big 3 CEO''s have said the "Prius is a P.O.S." (you can fill in the blanks) They should have all be fired for incompetence so we could focus on taking back the industry.

[cheteunice]

ydpfqrw, Electricity can be produced bt many means other than coal--for example, wind, nuclear and water power.

[eclecticman1]

As a Prius owner, I am part of Consumer Report''s highest owner approval rating for cars. I, like over 95% of Prius owners, love it. I won''t be able to trade in for the new one, but I would push anyone to buy it. I just wish American car companies had built it.

[forasongca]

I''ve had my Prius for about a year and a half; love it! I''m currently getting just under 45 MPG; even when gas was $4-something a gallon, I was putting far fewer dollars into my tank less frequently than nearly anyone else. I bought when gas was around $2.50/gal, so I managed to get some choice and discounts. :) Wise shoppers will do that now, rather than waiting for the next oil price spike.

I don''t know why Toyota expects us to trade into a newer model; part of the point of buying a Toyota is that it will run for ten years and 200K miles with little more than scheduled maintenance and the usual stuff that wears out on a car - tires, brakes, etc.

[incog-nito]

You are a generation late Toyota.


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Posted by baileycc at 05:31 PM : Jan 12, 2009

A generation late? I think not. It''s faraway the best-selling hybrid in America. The new model is more fuel-efficient AND more powerful AND still costs about the same as the old one.

You are a generation late Toyota.

[ydpfqrw]

Since the electricity used for electric cars are generated with coal, why don''t we consider these as coal powered cars?