I'm sure everybody is using and enjoying their Prius. But where do you all live? Where are all the Priuses that have been sold such that there are none on the dealers lots?
I've been looking for one on the road for the past 7 days, and I have spotted none, not a single one, not weekdays nor weekend. And it's not like a Honda Hybrid that looks like a regular Civic, the new Prius should be easy to spot. I thought LA is the new-model capital in the US. You can spot on the freeway practically every model sold in this market, from Kia to the newer Scion, from Bentley to Ferrari, even the Viper gets driven around on weekends.
Let's see..hmm...So 10,000 is made a month, if 1/3 goes to the US that's 3,300 or so (Toyota USA planned for 36,000 for the US market in 2004), distributed evenly to 50 states (not even scientific, it seems half of the population lives in CA) to give 66 new cars a month in CA, divide evenly to Northern and Southern CA, that's 33 new cars a month. It's September, 33x8 = there are 264 2004-model Priuses in LA/OC. Too few to be spotted regularly on the freeway?
I've been looking for one on the road for the past 7 days, and I have spotted none, not a single one, not weekdays nor weekend. And it's not like a Honda Hybrid that looks like a regular Civic, the new Prius should be easy to spot. I thought LA is the new-model capital in the US. You can spot on the freeway practically every model sold in this market, from Kia to the newer Scion, from Bentley to Ferrari, even the Viper gets driven around on weekends.
Let's see..hmm...So 10,000 is made a month, if 1/3 goes to the US that's 3,300 or so (Toyota USA planned for 36,000 for the US market in 2004), distributed evenly to 50 states (not even scientific, it seems half of the population lives in CA) to give 66 new cars a month in CA, divide evenly to Northern and Southern CA, that's 33 new cars a month. It's September, 33x8 = there are 264 2004-model Priuses in LA/OC. Too few to be spotted regularly on the freeway?