toyota prius

High gas prices and tight supplies of many popular compact models has pushed the price of some used cars, like the Toyota Prius, close to the list price of a new one.

After 20 months of topping the sales charts in its home market, the Toyota Prius has been overtaken by a more traditionally popular – and less expensive – rival...can you guess which one?

Hybrids like the 2011 Toyota Prius cost more to repair and maintain, right? It would seem, given all the additional technical complexity and computational wizardry in hybrids, that they would.

And it's a myth that's certainly made the rounds among backyard mechanics. But it hasn't proven true. With the oldest Toyota Prius models now more than ten years old, and hundreds and thousands of Prius models on U.S. roads (and about 900,000 sold), there's no rush on replacement batteries, no rash of Priuses needing costly powertrain components replaced.

They've proven surprisingly...bulletproof.

An auto industry group says Toyota's Prius ranked as Japan's top-selling car in October for the 18th straight month even as the number sold fell due to green car incentives expiring.

David Sandalow starts his five-mile commute each day by unplugging an orange extension cord connecting his Toyota Prius hybrid to an outlet in his brick carport.

The U.S.

Reports of sudden acceleration in the Toyota Prius have spiked across the country. But that doesn't mean there's an epidemic of bad gas pedals in the popular hybrid.

Owners of Toyota's iconic Prius hybrid model who thought they'd escaped the rash of Toyota recalls need to think again.

The company is working on a fix to reshape accelerator pedals so that they cannot be trapped by floor mats, and will issue details within weeks.

Toyota has announced a worldwide recall of 437,000 hybrids, including the popular 2010 Toyota Prius over brake issues.

The company announced that the fix will come via a software "patch" for the antilock braking system.

Safety regulators opened a formal investigation into consumer complaints about braking on 2010 Toyota Prius hybrids, the latest jolt to the automaker.