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Originally Posted by JSH
I suspect this is the last generation for the Prius and that is why the current car is on it's 6th year (2021). Now that Toyota has a hybrid version of almost every model there is no reason to keep the Prius which has fallen to only 44K a year (down from 236K a year)
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Toyota never seemed to want to sell the volume of Prii that they did and it was accidentally more popular than expected due to changing views and fuel costs
All the way back during the first gen my father found getting a Prius required a 6 month wait and a flight to California that never happened
After the backlash, competition and fuel prices receded sales fell
Prius sales follow fuel prices and are hit hard by the elimination of all sedan and cars from most sales metrics
which is unfortunate considering if dropped they will have committed the same error the big 3 made before the first and second fuel crisis