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It was a plug-in hybrid. Which is why they later consulted with Tesla on an all-electric RAV4 in 2010.

1400 sales over 6 years is worse than pathetic. They didn't run out of materials to produce them. Good lord, this is Toyota we're talking about, they've manufactured hundreds of millions of vehicles. It was an utter flop.

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They only made less than 400 available for purchase by the general public, which all sold out, and there was a waiting list for more.

You keep criticizing the sales, yet it was the supply that was the limiting factor. You can't sell more than you make, so of course tiny production runs are going to be "worse than pathetic" for sales!

Almost like they didn't really want it to succeed...

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