The interest in the Prius is creating problems for Toyota Motor Corp. Its U.S. arm has a backlog of 22,000 orders that it cannot fill at the moment... ...Shopping for a Prius in the Dallas area, Bill J. Kelly, a 47-year-old sign-store owner, searched online and found a dealership in Plano that agreed to take a deposit. But the dealer warned Kelly by e-mail that he'd have to pay a "fair market adjustment" of $6,000 to $8,000 on top of the car's list price of about $26,000. The rising popularity of hybrids comes against a backdrop of the recent increase in gasoline prices, which now average more than $2 per gallon in the United States...
sounds like BS to me. i be willing to bet the article was written to help cool the demand for the car and considering the source of the article, the author may also being trying to calm nervous auto execs
