Followup: Prius sales down due to supply problems

Yesterday, we reported that sales of the Toyota Prius fell 25 percent in April when compared to April 2005. In fact, sales were down overall Janaury-April compared to the same months in 2005. It didn't seem logical that supply issues would be more of an issue now than today, but according to Toyota, they are the reason deliveries are down. "If I had the vehicles, we could do 250,000 this year,'' Jin Lentz, a group vice president at Toyota, told Bloomberg. "We're going to end April with just a four-day supply of Prius, and I don't see that situation improving until later this year."