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Junkyard Find: 2007 Saturn Vue Green Line

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Honda beat everybody to the production gasoline-electric hybrid game in the United States, putting the Insight in showrooms in 1999. Toyota followed with the Prius a year later, but it took GM until 2006 to introduce its first true gasoline-electric hybrid here. liter engine and automatic).

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Hybrid sales continue downward trend

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Green cars continue to be as badly hit as any during the on-going recession as sales of hybrid cars showed another dramatic year-on-year slump in April. Combined reported US hybrid sales from Ford, GM, Honda, Nissan and Toyota fell by 45.5 Just 222 Altima Hybrids were sold during the month.

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More information on hybrid sales slump

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Nissan: Just 222 units of the Altima hybrid were sold in the US in April - a drop of 72.3 Toyota : Its’ combined hybrid sales dropped by 62.8 Toyota Prius sales dropped 61.5 per cent in April to 8,385 from 21,757 albeit this is in anticipation of the new 2010 Prius. Sales of the Camry Hybrid fell by 67.1

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Hybrid sales leap in the US

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Nissan: Despite limited availability, the Altima Hybrid sold 3,164 units during the month – that’s a 615.8 Toyota : Still the hybrid sales leader, Toyota sold 24,191 units in the month including 543 of the new Lexus HS250. The world’s most popular hybrid car, the Prius, saw sales of 18,886 units – up 40.3

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Huge rise in hybrid sales during October

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Nissan: With just 299 Altima Hybrids sold during October, Nissan suffered a 46 per cent drop in hybrid sales during the month. Toyota : The Japanese manufacturer posted 18,757 hybrid units during the month – an increase of 15 per cent, and representing a 12.3 The Toyota Prius posted 13,496 units, up 14.3

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Sales of hybrid cars increase in US

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The Civic Hybrid meanwhile posted 1,583 units, which is a fall of 41.6 Nissan: The Japanese manufacturer posted 666 units of the Altima Hybrid, which is a fall of 50 per cent compared to June 2008. Toyota : Taking the lion share of hybrid sales in the US, the Japanese manufacturer posted 16,744 units in June.

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US hybrid sales slump in September

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Sales of the Altima Hybrid suffered a particularly significant fall down 26.6 per cent compared to the previous year – hybrid sales fell to 14,585 units, down 5.3 The Prius enjoyed a sales surge of one per cent compared to the previous year at 10,984 units, but Camry Hybrid sales dropped 68.7 per cent to 345 units.