The Toyota Prius, the world's first mass-produced gasoline/electric hybrid vehicle, went on sale at the end of 1997 in Japan. The heart of this Prius is the Toyota Hybrid System (THS).
The 2003 Toyota Prius doesn't tower over the big SUVs physically, but when gasoline prices shot up early in calendar 2003 because of concerns over the Iraq war, the status of the fuel-efficient, gasoline-electric