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Hi guys Yahoo Japan is saying that the Prius was Japan's top selling car in May. It estimates the sales figure at over 10,000 and says that will...
They sell a 4WD Fit in Japan. In fact many cars come in 4WD versions. The Estima Hybrid is 4WD too.
With that price point, it makes more sense than the Insight MkII. I can see it being the perfect "Insight killer". Maybe the Insight was just a...
Yahoo Japan say Toyota got 30,000 orders for the new Prius in the first week May 18 to 25 of sales(!) This is on top of 80,000 pre-orders. The...
I don't want to bring attention to Clarkson, who feeds off the indignation he deliberately provokes, but in logical terms, surely the oft-spoken...
Maybe I haven't been paying attention properly, but the sunroof looks massive! I wasn't expecting something nearly the width of the car. As Yogi...
It looks like there was also a massive drop in 660cc kei car sales in April. The top 3 kei cars still outsold the Insight, but their numbers are...
That Tatra has a worse view out the back than a Prius!!
The cheapest, i.e., overnight, electricity in Japan is currently 11 yen a kWh. Most people don't have time-based meters so they pay 23 yen or so a...
Nissan now make an SUV, the 2.0GT clean diesel X-Trail, that passes the Japanese diesel pollution laws. It costs 500,000 yen more than the...
Re: Tesla unveils four-door electric sedan Err, seats seven?
There's just been a review of today's newspapers on a Japanese morning show and one of the articles was Insight vs. Prius - the hybrid battle. It...
Honda say 15,000 Insights were ordered in February but only 4900 were delivered. That was still more than the number of Priuses sold. The...
I don't know if this has appeared so far, but it was in Nikkei BP the other day. The URL is here [IMG]
Sorry if posted elsewhere on PC. In Feb 09 in the USA Ford sales down 46.3% GM down 53% Toyota down 40% Honda down 38% Some possible optimism...
We've had direct mail from two Japanese Toyota dealers in the last ten days offering a 2009 Prius at 260,000 yen below retail. Obviously that is...
Hi Speedracer. The Japanese jidoushazei tax is supposed to change this April to a CO2 based tax. If it does, the 5 number/3 number tax...
The sunroof is possibly an easily understandable example of a gizmo, but surely it couldn't have cost that much to develop? A little panel running...
So they've bought plug-in vehicles but they didn't plug them in. In other news, this mysterious UFO was spotted circling over Seattle....
Personally I think Honda Japan are selling Insights to people who have gone into their dealerships in the past few months to buy a Fit (Jazz),...
