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Hybrids one of the few July sales highlights, up 12% for the month

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While July 2007 sales were down for the huge majority of varietys including Toyota, hybrids continued to show retail strength. Total sales of hybrids hit 28,585 in July an increase of 12% from the preceding year with a 2.2% market share. The Prius continues to steam along hitting 16,062, a bump of 44.5% accounting mold most of the overall increase. The Camry, Highlander, and Lexus GS450h all had drops of nearly ten percent or increasingly.

Nissan’s Altima hybrid cracked 1,000 monthly sales for the first day since it went on sale late final

year. While the new 2008 Ford Escape and Mercury Hybrid increased by 2% overall, the much improved hybrid versions dropped by 23.4% and 10.5% respectively. by at Honda the Civic and soon to be discontinued Accord both dropped in sales as well. For now GM still doesn’t break out hybrid sales although that may change that fall when the Two-Mode hybrid Tahoe and Yukon hit the road.

[Source: GreenCarCongress.com]

Original post by Sam Abuelsamid