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The slow and steady decline of the Toyota Prius in Australia – Drive
Once the patron saint of the hybrids, Toyota’s trailblazer has since fallen out of favour.
13 Jan 2021
That’s despite hybrids becoming increasingly hot property for Australian buyers in recent months.
In 2020, Aussies purchased 60,417 hybrid vehicles (up from 31,191 the year prior), meaning the standard Prius represented only a 0.15 per cent slice of that pie.
If you add in sales of the Prius’ compact-car and wagon variations – the Prius V and the now-discontinued Prius C – that number looks slightly more respectable, with the V adding 272 sales and the C adding 83, amounting to a total…
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