Hybrid Car - More Fun with Less Gas

(AFP/File) - A prototype of the plug-in hybrid vehicle of Toyota Motor, in Tokyo, in July 2007. Toyota Motor Corp., which is jostling with General Motors for the crown of top automaker, said Friday it planned to be the first company in the world to sell more than 10 million vehicles in 2009.(AFP/File/Toru Yamanaka)

(AFP) - Katsuaki Watanabe, president of Japan's auto giant Toyota Motor, introduces its new SUV "Vanguard" at its showroom in Tokyo. Fast-growing Toyota Motor Corp said Thursday it was keeping its sales target this year for the US market, saying the effects of a housing sector crisis there would be temporary.(AFP/Toru )

(AFP) - Katsuaki Watanabe, president of Japan's auto giant Toyota Motor, introduces its new SUV "Vanguard" at its showroom in Tokyo. Fast-growing Toyota Motor Corp said Thursday it was keeping its sales target this year for the US market, saying the effects of a housing sector crisis there would be temporary.(AFP/Toru )

(Reuters) - Toyota Motor Corp President Katsuaki Watanabe poses next to the company's new 'Vanguard', a new mid-size SUV, during an unveiling in Tokyo August 30, 2007. The new luxury-class mid-class vehicle, equipped with a 3.5-liter V6 engine, went on sale in Japan on Thursday. REUTERS/Yuriko Nakao (JAPAN)

(Reuters) - Toyota Motor Corp President Katsuaki Watanabe speaks during a news conference in Tokyo August 30, 2007. Toyota launched its new 'Vanguard', a new mid-size SUV equipped with a 3.5-liter V6 engine, on Thursday. REUTERS/Yuriko Nakao (JAPAN)

(Reuters) - Toyota Motor Corp President Katsuaki Watanabe speaks during a news conference in Tokyo August 30, 2007. Toyota launched its new "Vanguard", a new mid-size SUV equipped with a 3.5-liter V6 engine, on Thursday. REUTERS/Yuriko Nakao (JAPAN)

(AFP/File) - Toyota emblem on a vehicle. A parts making subsidiary of automaking giant Toyota Motor said Wednesday it will invest some 80 million dollars to build a new factory in the US state of Mississippi.(AFP/File/Saeed Khan)

(AP) - Sony's entertainment robot Qrio, left, performs during a media preview, celebrating the opening of Qrio Technology Park 2004 in Tokyo on Dec 17, 2004 while Toyota Motor Corp.'s 'i-swing' single-seat vehicle is unveiled at a press preview of the 39th Tokyo Motor Show in Chiba, east of Tokyo on Oct. 19, 2005. Toyota and Sony, two of Japan's biggest technology names, are getting together in robotics, both sides said Monday, Aug. 27, 2007 to develop an innovative, intelligent, single-seat vehicle. (AP Photo/Junji Kurokawa and Shizuo Kambayashi, FILES)

(AFP/Toyota/HO) - Thai employees work at a Toyota assembly line in Samutprakarn province. Thailand's vehicle exports in July jumped 38 percent year-on-year thanks to robust demand in Australia and the Middle East, an industry group said.(AFP/Toyota/HO)

(Reuters) - A businessman talking on a mobile phone passes an electronic board displaying share prices in Tokyo August 23, 2007. The Nikkei share average got off to a strong start on Thursday, rising 2 percent in the opening minutes of trade as exporters such as Toyota Motor Corp gained on a softer yen while higher commodity prices pushed up nonferrous stocks. REUTERS/Yuriko Nakao (JAPAN)