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Toyota cuts Prius Hybrid Production by 10% due to Poor Car Sales

Posted March 17 2010 10:06 AM by RimZ 
Filed under: Auto News, Toyota, Hybrid Cars, Japanese Cars, Toyota, Sedans, Hybrid
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TOKYO, March 15 (Reuters) - Toyota Motor Corp (7203.T) is slashing its output of the Prius hybrid model by 10 percent starting this month due to a slowdown in sales from a peak last year, a source at a group company told Reuters on Monday.


Toyota, the world's biggest automaker, had been building a combined 50,000 Priuses a month at two Japanese factories since the third-generation model debuted last May. That will drop to about 45,000 units from March, the source said, declining to be identified because Toyota does not make those production plans public...


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