howeird | A very short Hybrid Moment

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Last night on my way home (~7 pm) I stopped at Stevens Creek Honda to look at the Civic hybrid. Unlike Sunnyvale Toyota, where there were two salesfolk on the lot to greet me, there was nobody paying attention to customers at Honda. I walked around the lot, looked at stickers and was shocked to see that where Toyota marked everything down from MSRP, Honda added $3k. This brought the price of the minimum package Civic Hybrid to about $28k, more than the Prius for what looked like far less car. I was there for about 15 minutes, and at no time did anyone as much as look at me, though I could see two salesclowns on the lot and two more in the showroom. Maybe this explains why Toyota has sold more than 60,000 hybrids and Honda has not.

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Yup, I noticed you were getting into a Prius after BASFA.

lisa_marli points out there are at least three in the parking lot at any given meeting. I guess my previous posting about test driving one boils down to it being all good except for the price and not having an unobstructed view out the back. The latter kills the deal for me. If they re-design the hatchback to remove the spoiler and wiper, I'm there.