Toyota raises Prius 2005 European sales goal</span> Toyota Motor Cop. increased on Tuesday its 2005 European goal for sales of its Prius hybrid model to 20,000 units from the previous target of 15,000 and versus 8,200 in 2004. "This year our target is to more than double to 20,000 hybrid vehicle sales in Europe," Takis Athanasopoulos, the executive vice president of Toyota Motor Europe, told Reuters in an interview at the Geneva Car Show. He reiterated the world No. 2 carmaker\'s goal of boosting European sales to 980,000 units this year from 916,000 in 2004. "I think Toyota can grow without having to resort to incentives," he said. <span style=\'color:blue\'>Full Reuters article.
Prius is out selling HCH by more than 5:1. No surprise there. Escape hybrid is outselling Accord hybrid. This is somewhat surprising. Full hybrid superiority. On the related news: http://www.greencarcongress.com/2005/03/fe...ary_us_hyb.html
Specially from last weekend at Oscar, some celebrity decided drive own Prius. That made some good impression does it? :roll: According to Japanese media, there is 8 Prius was there.
The other graph on the page you linked to, Seawolf, shows that the number of hybrids sold per month durinh 2004 went from just over 4,000 to 10,000. And that's per month, not total! Impressive
