Buyers of the popular Toyota Prius hybrid, after waiting months to get their cars, now are telling dealers to keep them until next month so the buyers can qualify for what's likely to be a much bigger hybrid tax break in 2006.
I've got cars on the ground that I'd had (on) order for 18 months, and the customers want delivery after the first of the year," says Debbie Tufts, new car sales manager at Rudy Luther Toyota in Golden Valley, Minn.
"We have seen it around the country," Toyota spokeswoman Nancy Hubbell says.
Stating Jan. 1, buyers of gas-electric hybrid vehicles get tax credits that could lower their income tax bills as much as $3,150, according to an analysis by the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy.
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