Hybrid Car - More Fun with Less Gas

(AP) - The Toyota company sign stands over a long row of unsold 2008 Tundra pickup trucks at a Toyota dealership in the southeast Denver suburb of Centennial, Colo., on Sunday, Nov. 4, 2007. Nervous consumers are expected to make November another sluggish month for auto sales despite holiday discounts and a handful of runaway hits. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

(AP) - Unsold 2007 Toyota 4Runners sit in a row at a Toyota dealership in the southeast Denver suburb of Centennial, Colo., Sunday, Nov. 4, 2007. Nervous consumers are expected to make November another sluggish month for auto sales despite holiday discounts and a handful of runaway hits. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

(Reuters) - Assembly line workers install a hybrid engine into Toyota Motor Corp's new Prius sedan at Toyota's Tsutsumi plant in Toyota city, central Japan, October 2, 2003. A Toyota employee died of overwork after logging more than 106 hours of overtime in a month, a judge ruled Friday, reversing a ministry's earlier decision not to pay compensation to his widow. (Chang-Ran Kim/Reuters)

(AFP/File) - Toyota workers inspect newly-assembled Lexus cars at the company's plant in Tahara earlier this year. The Japanese car giant is to recall some 264,000 cars in Japan and abroad to repair defective fuel pipes. The recall will affect its Crown, Mark X and Lexus marques both at home and abroad.(AFP/File/Kazuhiro Nogi)

(AFP/File) - A Toyota employee speaks next to the Marx X in 2004. Japanese car giant Toyota Motor Corp. said Wednesday it was recalling about 264,000 cars in Japan and abroad to repair defective fuel pipes.(AFP/File/Toshifumi Kitamura)

(Reuters) - A 2006 Lexus IS 350 is seen in a publicity image. Toyota Motor Corp said on Wednesday it would recall 215,020 units of the Lexus GS, Crown and three other high-end car models in Japan to fix a faulty fuel pipe that could lead to a fuel leakage. The recall covers Crown, Lexus GS350, Lexus IS250, Lexus IS350 and Mark X sedans manufactured between December 2003 and December 2005, Japan's top automaker said in a filing with the transport ministry. No accident has been reported. (Lexus/Handout/Reuters)

(AP) - Attorney Louis Franecke gestures while describing what in his opinion was a poorly designed seat belt latch that contributed to the death of the father of his client Gurinder Singh, outside a courtroom Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2007, in Stockton, Calif. The son of a 60-year-old Stockton security guard who burnt to death in his Toyota Corolla is suing the world's No. 2 automaker, saying the company's faulty seatbelt design turned their family car into a deathtrap. The suit is one of two cases proceeding in California courts questioning the safety of Toyota Motor Corp.'s most reliable compact models. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)

(AP) - Gurinder Singh waits to enter a courtroom Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2007, in Stockton, Calif. Singh, the son of a 60-year-old Stockton security guard who burned to death in his Toyota Corolla is suing the world's No. 2 automaker, saying the company's faulty seatbelt design turned their family car into a deathtrap. The suit is one of two cases proceeding in California courts questioning the safety of Toyota Motor Corp.'s most reliable compact models. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)

(AP) - Gurinder, right, and Kashmir Singh speak with their attorney, Louis Franecke, center, before entering a courtroom Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2007, in Stockton, Calif. The son of a 60-year-old Stockton security guard who burnt to death in his Toyota Corolla is suing the world's No. 2 automaker, saying the company's faulty seatbelt design turned their family car into a deathtrap. The suit is one of two cases proceeding in California courts questioning the safety of Toyota Motor Corp.'s most reliable compact models. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)

(AP) - Gurinder, right, and his mother Kashmir Singh wait to enter a courtroom Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2007, in Stockton, Calif. The son of a 60-year-old Stockton security guard who burnt to death in his Toyota Corolla is suing the world's No. 2 automaker, saying the company's faulty seatbelt design turned their family car into a deathtrap. The suit is one of two cases proceeding in California courts questioning the safety of Toyota Motor Corp.'s most reliable compact models. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)