Toyota setting hybrid sales records
Recent Hybrid convert
Joined: Sep 2006
Posts: 175
From: Houston, TX
Re: Toyota setting hybrid sales records
I still get the "looks" from other drivers when they notice the hybrid badges. I am not sure if they are suprised that the camry comes as a hybrid or if they are thinking "**** environmentalist". but either way, I have had many peope race through traffic just to slow next to me to take a better look.
That said, it's time to get back to the poster's original intent... OK, so sales have been soaring. Anyone want to provide other reasons/theories for the recent surge? Finally some public acceptance of this "new" (ahem!) technology? Gas prices?
Last edited by HybridFan; Apr 30, 2007 at 07:36 PM.
Active Enthusiast
Joined: May 2006
Posts: 244
From: Arlington Heights, IL (Chicagoland)
Re: Toyota setting hybrid sales records
Is the difference in the tail lights on the Camry a difference between Japan and Kentucky, or hybrid and non-hybrid? If it is the hybrid or not difference, than those of us in the know can tell the difference at a distance (badges or no badges). My Japanese car has a BIG backup light, and no red tail light on the trunk lid.
I know some volunteer fire fighters who have been instructed to make sure any hydrid vehicle involved in an accident is turned off. Apparently they can start moving sometimes even if you don't hear the ICE. I am happy to leave the badges in place on my jasper pearl car. If I am driving a car whose color makes me very visible, I want it's hybrid nature to be visible, too.
JoAnn
Overeager in MD
I know some volunteer fire fighters who have been instructed to make sure any hydrid vehicle involved in an accident is turned off. Apparently they can start moving sometimes even if you don't hear the ICE. I am happy to leave the badges in place on my jasper pearl car. If I am driving a car whose color makes me very visible, I want it's hybrid nature to be visible, too.
JoAnn
Overeager in MD
You picked up on the most noticeable difference between the Hybrid and non-hybrid Camry - the backup lights. The badges are harder to see, the grille is harder yet to discern and if you can see the blue tint on the headlights or the air dams below the car - you're about to have an accident!
Your car is easiest to tell. Jasper pearl only comes on the hybrid. I still like that color, although I wimped out and bought the desert sand...
Oh, and I forgot the LED tail-lamps on the hybrid.
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