a href="http://www.autobloggreen.com/photos/2010-toyota-prius-7/1394626/"img alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autobloggreen.com/media/2009/03/031-2010-prius-red-580.jpg" //abr /div align="center"emstrongsmall2010 Toyota Prius - Click above for high-res image gallery/small/strong/embr //divbr /Auto sales are down - that's not exactly a surprise to anyone anymore. But Toyota has revived a little something from last summer called a wait list - for people who are interested in buying a new a href="http://www.autobloggreen.com/2009/03/02/prius-2010-detail-overload-will-get-49-mpg-highway-rating-100/"2010 Prius/a. According to a story in emThe New York Times, /emToyota is running its Prius production plants in Japan 24 hours a day and offering overtime to workers - even bringing in workers from other areas of the country - to meet demand for the hybrid car. Panasonic EV Energy, the Prius' battery supplier, is also working constantly to keep churning out packs for the model. br /br /This is the effect of those a href="http://www.autobloggreen.com/2009/06/01/surprise-prius-so-popular-toyota-is-increasing-production-rate/"higher-than-expected sales numbers/a. The NYT says that the waiting list is "several months" long in Japan. While impressive considering the marketplace, Toyota is still warning that 2009 will not be a profitable year for the company.br /br /div class="postgallery"pstrongGallery: a href="http://www.autobloggreen.com/photos/2010-toyota-prius-8/"2010 Toyota Prius/a/strong/pa href="http://www.autobloggreen.com/photos/2010-toyota-prius-8/1450767/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autobloggreen.com/media/2009/03/037_2010toyotaprius_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.autobloggreen.com/photos/2010-toyota-prius-8/1450765/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autobloggreen.com/media/2009/03/019_2010toyotaprius_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.autobloggreen.com/photos/2010-toyota-prius-8/1450764/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autobloggreen.com/media/2009/03/021_2010toyotaprius_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.autobloggreen.com/photos/2010-toyota-prius-8/1450760/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autobloggreen.com/media/2009/03/056_2010toyotaprius_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.autobloggreen.com/photos/2010-toyota-prius-8/1450759/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autobloggreen.com/media/2009/03/038_2010toyotaprius_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //a/divbr /[Source: a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/13/business/global/13prius.html?_r=2amp;hpw"The New York Times/a]p style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2009/06/15/get-this-theres-a-prius-waiting-list/"One More Time: There's a Toyota Prius wait list?/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.autoblog.com"Autoblog/a on Mon, 15 Jun 2009 10:57:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./ph6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/13/business/global/13prius.html?_r=2amp;hpwRead/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2009/06/15/get-this-theres-a-prius-waiting-list/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/forward/19066984/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2009/06/15/get-this-theres-a-prius-waiting-list/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/apa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/oNhUr3tTzpPvyael-WXwpWpcHTc/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/oNhUr3tTzpPvyael-WXwpWpcHTc/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/oNhUr3tTzpPvyael-WXwpWpcHTc/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/oNhUr3tTzpPvyael-WXwpWpcHTc/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare"a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/weblogsinc/autoblog?a=V-R7U1Au52w:K5ecZOqQ1yg:wF9xT3WuBAs"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/weblogsinc/autoblog?i=V-R7U1Au52w:K5ecZOqQ1yg:wF9xT3WuBAs" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/weblogsinc/autoblog?a=V-R7U1Au52w:K5ecZOqQ1yg:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/weblogsinc/autoblog?i=V-R7U1Au52w:K5ecZOqQ1yg:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a/divimg src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/weblogsinc/autoblog/~4/V-R7U1Au52w" height="1" width="1"/

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