Prius

[Anonymous]

What happened to the Prius? Are they sold anymore? Do liberals still drive them as a statement with bumper stickers? I miss seeing that. Where did all those people go?

[Anonymous]

My spouse drives a Prius (no bumper stickers), but he is working from home and not driving anywhere.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What happened to the Prius? Are they sold anymore? Do liberals still drive them as a statement with bumper stickers? I miss seeing that. Where did all those people go?

They saw how ugly the Prius got on the redesign, and spent additional money to get a Tesla

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What happened to the Prius? Are they sold anymore? Do liberals still drive them as a statement with bumper stickers? I miss seeing that. Where did all those people go?

They saw how ugly the Prius got on the redesign, and spent additional money to get a Tesla

Prius drivers and Tesla drivers are two different groups with a small intersection. Prius drivers simply want to advertise their feelings on their cars and they are hostile to others opinions and property. Prius drivers are militant about opening their doors into the side of your car and then looking at you shocked that you can't give them a pass for saving the planet.

Tesla drivers are like Apple product users and they just want to belong to a group they never thought they would be cool enough to belong to. They are just glad that they got a chance to buy in and now only wonder if by not going with the 'white' paint choice, accidentally fell into a smaller 'poser' group.

[Anonymous]

They are still out there, although sales have dropped from their peak 6-8 years ago. I suppose some of the early adopters were making a political statement but when sales were in the hundreds of thousands I think people were just buying a "car". And that's the key word. "Car"

Americans have literally stopped buying cars. Ford doesn't sell cars, except for the Mustang. Lincoln still offers a couple cars but nobody buys them. The Chevy Impala, Cruze - gone. Everything has moved to SUVs and crossovers. Last year, Toyota sold many more Hybrid Rav4s than Priuses. In 2019 Toyota solar 92,525 hybrid Rav4s, around 21 percent of overall RAV4 sales.

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Year sold
2005 107,155
2006 106,971
2007 181,221
2008 158,884
2009 150,831
2010 140,928
2011 136,464
2012 236,655
2013 234,228
2014 207,372
2015 184,794
2016 136,629
2017 108,661
2018 87,590
2019 69,718
2020 32,566

[Anonymous]

Yup, Prius market share was cannibalized by hybrids becoming widespread among automakers and the rise of EVs.

Go watch the first few season of Curb Your Enthusiasm in the early and mid 00s - Larry David is driving early barebones Prius models despite being worth nearly one billion dollars at that time. In later seasons he switches to Teslas, Lexus Hybrids, or BMW EVs. Prius was the one of the only games in town for a solid decade (2000-2010).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Americans have literally stopped buying cars. Ford doesn't sell cars, except for the Mustang. Lincoln still offers a couple cars but nobody buys them. The Chevy Impala, Cruze - gone. Everything has moved to SUVs and crossovers. Last year, Toyota sold many more Hybrid Rav4s than Priuses. In 2019 Toyota solar 92,525 hybrid Rav4s, around 21 percent of overall RAV4 sales.

Well said. Look at the RAV4 Prime plug-in hybrid. Demand for that thing is so hot that people are paying sticker price and over for them: https://www.torquenews.com/1083/toyota-delivered-more-rav4-primes-first-9-weeks-tesla-did-model-3-x-or-s

People who were Prius buyers 10 years ago are RAV4 Prime buyers today.