I've been staring at this article for a couple of days and held off posting here because of the source. The "Telegraph" reads like a supermarket tabloid and this has the characteristics of trying to make something out of nothing. But I'm not British and could be misreading it:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/.../10/ixmot.html

"Toyota has hit back at critics who claim its hybrid petrol/electric cars are not as environmentally friendly as claimed, writes Andrew English In particular, the company says the US-based CNW Marketing Research report, which claims that vehicles such as the Hummer SUV are greener than a hybrid Prius, is highly misleading.

"We are being extremely cautious about this study," said Toyota (GB) MD Graham Smith, "particularly about how it came to be aired at this time, and how it came to these conclusions. We are sceptical and we want to know more about it." . . ."

Further down, the article cites internal Toyota studies and then jumps over to follow-up on the conservative party leader choosing a hybrid Lexus instead of a Prius, which really made me wonder about the article's objectivity. Maybe someone else has better insight about the "Telegraph."
Bob Wilson

 

I agree with you about the article, but nay one who would belive that study would believe anything they read anyway, so I don't think Toyota would need to even respond to it.

 

I noticed that there is a GM Astra popup over the article.It is one of the small GM diesel cars we don't have a chance to buy.Charlie