Comments on: Toyota predicts 40,000 Japan pre-orders for 2010 Prius, outpacing Honda Insight demand

By: shaver

shaver — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 19:27:50 +0000

1st Honda quits F1 and has to watch Brawn GP take Hondas hardwork to the front of the F1 grid. Now this.

By: shane train

shane train — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 13:37:06 +0000

skeee1- I’ve been asking that from the beginning, to be honest. I’m sure there’s some method of disposal or recycling, I mean, if people catch on to it, and they’re just dumping them, they won’t be able to continue doing so for long. There are tons of poisonous materials that can be recycled.

Maybe they’ll shoot them into space. No one will care there.

By: skeee1

skeee1 — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 12:04:45 +0000

I wonder what the car manufacturers are going to do with all of the used batteries out of these vehicles???? More danger to the environment.

By: jdasch1

jdasch1 — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 04:05:47 +0000

As soon as they can be plugged into a 120 Volt outlet, they will have 100k orders immediatly.

By: Blakkarr

Blakkarr — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 00:17:02 +0000

The enemy of any car in any country: a wide spread, popular, well run, effective and efficient public mass transit system.

It also wouldn’t hurt if the G2 Insight did not look so much like a badge re-engineered G2 Prius. Maybe HONDA will make an Insight Si (Snark)… Actually, that would not be a bad idea.

By: JakeK66

JakeK66 — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 23:22:54 +0000

That’s my point DrFill. People really do think, stupidly, that these are built to lose money, and that’s completely wrong.

By: DrFill

DrFill — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 22:37:15 +0000

Jake
That used to be the case, about 10 years ago
The costs of producing the powertrain have been reduced 75% from the 1st Prius
DrFill

By: shane train

shane train — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 21:24:54 +0000

Man, since the intro of the Insight I gotta say I’d prefer it over a Prius. The price is a strong point for it, and the look is a bit nicer, the front of this is an IMPROVEMENT, but I’m still not crazy about it.

The Insight, while still being boring, just seems less so.

By: atoms

atoms — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 21:22:27 +0000

I don’t doubt that they’ll sell a s*** load of prius’ (over 20,000 already) but this claim is like saying “its gonna be dark out tonight” well of course it is!

By: johnnycanuck

johnnycanuck — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 20:14:47 +0000

Great. Now someone find out who sold the most toasters last year, Black & Decker or General Electric? My fascination with appliances knows no bounds.

By: JakeK66

JakeK66 — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 20:01:24 +0000

The biggest joke in the industry today is anyone who says Toyota and Honda lose money for every hybrid they sell…. Yeah right. And I’m on Miami Vice.