so would the venza and highlander be grouped with the camry… and im sure a lexus is on the same frame, ES maybe

proof that the world is going to hell in a handbasket.

I don’t know what Toyota is believing. That’s not something to be proud about, if I need to be honest.

It’s not even environmentally-friendly because of the amount of rare metals each Prius needs to utilize it’s “green technology”.

If I had to choose hybrids or diesels, I’ll stick with diesels, thank you very much.

I guess more people would rather have a runaway Prius rather than a runaway Camry when the accelerator gets stuck.

I’ll bet even Nostradamus didn’t predict this one.

more hybrids = more room at the margins for your v-8…quit bitching…

cheaa…this one is for all the douchebags that hated on toyota’s hybrid success out of envy and wanted it to fail. even band-wagoner gm shamelessly sticks hybrid badges on some of its trucks but then again gm is just a whore for anything that makes money. ss anyone.

Maybe its just me but I think its a bit cheesy/deceptive lumping your sales total together. If you sold apples you sold apples, if you sold oranges you sold oranges don’t say we sold fruit.

I don’t see it
At least not in the next ten years
Toyota would also need to stop making Camry Hybrids
DrFill

So toyota’s president is predicting that his customer base will become more retarded and have even worse taste than now. This explains their design direction.

@superman, but do you really need a dozen or so “Hybrid” badges on a single car?

That’s a poor statement! It leads the reader to believe that either the camry is junk, or the prius is selling SO many cars! A hybrid shouldn’t be out selling a normal car, from the same manufacturer. But that’s what I think, don’t really know what it really means..

This is proof that a stupid name for a car (”Prius”) is not an impediment to sales.

Toyota is selling a lot of Prius
But they won’t sell 400k+ for a long time
DrFill

Funny no one ever seemed to think it bad that Ford would lump Explorer and Explorer Sport pickups together as one….not to mention all the F-Series. they all do it

With THOSE looks….ha….not farking lightly mate…

DenverGuy
I’ve been railing against Ford’s shady accounting since Reagan
DrFill

Only if gas is $5 a gal.

If gas hits $5 a gallon I might buy a Prius! (minus the floormats of course!)

Too bad human created climate change is a myth, but it sure helps sell the Prius, along with the great gas mileage of course. I laugh when people actually think they’re having any effect on the Earth’s climate. It’s more realistic to say they’re putting a dent in the oil revenues of OPEC.

Its already the best selling car in WA state. I never thought of it as a car. Appliance maybe. I rented one in LA, and returned it 1 hour later. Terrible.

This makes sense, I guess. Anyone going out of their way to buy a brand new Camry can’t really like cars or enjoy driving. The Prius is just a further extreme from what a Camry is. A good friend told me he had to drive one (company car) for a day while at work. He’s not a car guy and HE got disgusted with it within ten minutes.

Gas is expensive and cars need to have very clean emissions these days but this isn’t the answer.

One POS outselling another POS.

I think the whole concept is a little off. Prius is a strong name, I agree 100%. I doubt you could walk down the street and say “I own a prius” and have a single person not know what you’re talking about. However, Prius (and hybrid technology) is very polarizing by nature. People either love it or hate it. Granted there is a middle ground – peole that see the Prius as a viable economic choice based on gas prices (or projected prices). The camry I believe is not as polarizing… camry has it’s sides, however. I see it as the fun vs. appliance argument many of you have probably already seen, which is no where near as bipolar as the Prius.

Now I dont doubt that another car (maybe the Prius) will eventually take the crown for number 1 sold Toyota in America… but to do it with Prius Coupe+Prius Wagon+Prius+Prius SUV > Camry+Camry Solara being all that fair of a comparison.

I think Andy put it together nicely above. Camry platform = ES350, Venza, Solara, RX350, Highlander, even Avalon. So it’s almost like saying Camry Luxury, Camry Wagon, Camry Coupe, Camry Luxury SUV, Camry SUV, and Stretch-Camry. So it seems like if you put the study together – you can claim anything you want. 4 outa 5 dentists reccommend Colgate… but another 4 outa 5 dentists reccommend Crest. When it comes down to it, it’s all just advertising with plenty of smoke and mirrors.

Camry’s sold 2008 = 436,618
Prius’s sold 2008 = 158,900

Prius isnt even 50% there… However all things aside, I think the Camry has gone way downhill in the past 5 years in quality, interior appointment, and refinement. And to not perform any more falacies to future events… we dont know what will happen to the toyota lineup, we dont know what will happen to the camry’s MPG, who’s to say China boycots exporting rare-earth metals, who’s to say the IIHS doesnt discover exploding batteries due to overheating, there are many many variables that are not accounted for in this one man’s accusations.

How about we wait until the numbers are out – then we’ll agree Xcar outsold Ycar.

@ajm11

“I guess more people would rather have a runaway Prius rather than a runaway Camry when the accelerator gets stuck.”

That’s kind of funny. Well played.