So Toyota Prius car sellers in the U.S. Third

Prius global car market continues to make the Toyota Motor Corporation with a smile. His achievements as a top-selling hybrid cars in the world still held, now he poked third best-selling sales in the United States, after the period January-April 2012 terlego 247 230 units. This number has doubled over the same period last year. The previous record was obtained through the Toyota Corolla with sales of 300 800 units and Ford Focus with 277 000 units.

Sales showed a positive return of keperceyaan consumers in the U.S. after two snared in millions of cases of "recall". In addition, post-disaster recovery that occurred mid last year in Japan.

"This proves that the Prius is not a coincidence, there is a long-term in the U.S. market for hybrid vehicles," komentarEric Noble, president of Car Lab, Automotive Consultants in Orange, California, reported by Autonews (05/29/2012).

Another weapon that makes the Prius is so successful with the launch of the latest generation Prius Aqua or C which boosted sales in Japan to be 175 080 units of the first quarter of the previous period 52 507 units.

Japanese government's decision to extend the eco-friendly car incentives, coupled with the introduction of Aqua at the same time, according to Koichi Sugimoto (senior analyst at BNP Paribas, Tokyo) helped push sales. Sugimoto judge, Toyota became one of the brand has maintained positive sales despite the government will revoke the sale of the same incentives as other brands Hyundai Elantra, Volkswagen Golf, Ford Fiesta, Chevrolet Cruze and Honda Civic.