Toyota Prius sales drive past three million mark

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UK accounts for around 70,000 units of pioneering hybrid first released in 1997

Toyota Prius sales passed the three million mark last month, 16 years after the bellwether hybrid car was first released. Just under 70,000 of these sales were in the UK across the car's three generations...

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