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Toyota halts U.S. Prius project
Lindsay Chappell
NASHVILLE -- Toyota Motor Corp., with its sales plunging in the United States, is freezing its plan to build the Toyota Prius in a new plant near Tupelo, Miss. For how long? The automaker doesn't know.
Toyota's board in Japan reached the decision late today to halt the project "due to the steep decline" in U.S. sales.
Sales of the hybrid car have softened in recent weeks as gasoline prices dropped from a summer spike of more than $4 a gallon. The Prius sold 8,660 units in November, down from 16,737 in November 2007.
Total Toyota sales in the United States fell 32 percent in November.
This is the second time Toyota has changed plans on the $1.3 billion Mississippi project, which already has begun to draw component suppliers to the area.
In February 2007, Toyota announced it would spend $1.3 billion there to produce a new generation of Highlander crossovers. But after Toyota broke ground, SUV sales began to soften. In July of this year, Toyota said it instead would build the Prius there.
A spokeswoman for Toyota's North American manufacturing operations says the company will continue constructing the building, which is about 90 percent complete. The company made its decision today before it had begun ordering the equipment that would go into the plant.
Toyota has no timetable to resume the project, the spokeswoman says, but it will remain a Prius factory whenever the project restarts. ...
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12-15-2008, 11:46 PM
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Re: Prius ...!
Hybrid and electric vehicle sales are down all over the world. Even Europe doesn't want them.
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12-16-2008, 07:43 AM
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Hybrid and electric vehicle sales are down all over the world. Even Europe doesn't want them.
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I sure don't want 'em !!
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12-17-2008, 04:19 AM
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How quickly things change, HA HA Prius Owners! The roads were ice & snow here today, lots of wrecks and EXACTLY the type of day to be a HUMMER OWNER! Cheap gas was just icing on the cake!
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12-17-2008, 07:51 AM
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12-17-2008, 01:49 PM
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Time will tell on the prius 
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Originally Posted by frenzy1
I sure don't want 'em !!
Heck, I hardly ever see a prius thingie driving over here.
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We have more than enough of them here to share with everyone. I was parked next to a Prius at Starbuck's yesterday. When I got in to start the truck, it set off the car alarm on the Prius. (  ) The owner ran out and gave me a dirty look ...lol .. as if I did it on purpose.  (Did I? )
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How quickly things change, HA HA Prius Owners! The roads were ice & snow here today, lots of wrecks and EXACTLY the type of day to be a HUMMER OWNER! Cheap gas was just icing on the cake!
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He looks like a Jewish Jap !!!
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12-18-2008, 02:18 AM
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I think its just a matter of time before gas prices start to rise gain.  |
12-19-2008, 06:09 PM
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Originally Posted by Hmmm2
We have more than enough of them here to share with everyone. I was parked next to a Prius at Starbuck's yesterday. When I got in to start the truck, it set off the car alarm on the Prius. ( ) The owner ran out and gave me a dirty look ...lol .. as if I did it on purpose. (Did I? ) |
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12-20-2008, 01:16 PM
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Oil will be back around $80 a barrel come summer but, gas per gallon does not have to rise at same rate. That is a scam and all hipe. T. Boone Pickens said live on Fox News Network that he felt oil would double from present price, which was $45 at that time, by summer.
He said in another interview that oil industry with the heavy research and exploration needed right now could not continue to make break throughs that could remove this nation from dependence on oil at oil price levels where they are now.
He mentioned that at this time all the money that was being spent on alternative power has dropped to near nothing and that he himself has had to almost stop his advertising that he was doing due to such drastic run down in oil prices and just the fact no one listens much right now due to gas not killing the consumer budget. Higher oil prices are needed to pay for research he said and funds are not there presently.
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