pFiled under: a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/carbuying/" rel="tag"Car Buying/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/hybrids/" rel="tag"Hybrids/Alternative/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/green/" rel="tag"Green/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/toyota/" rel="tag"Toyota/a/pa href="http://www.autoblog.com/2009/01/21/batteries-i-are-i-included-toyota-rolls-out-certified-hybrid/"img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="0" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2009/01/certified_used_prius.jpg" //abr /br /Underscoring just how important hybrid cars and crossovers are to Toyota's overall sales strategy is a new certified used hybrid program that will reside alongside the automaker's standard certified pre-owned program. br /br /Like the automaker's existing gasoline-only program, certified hybrid vehicles will have passed a thorough examination with 174 individual points, 14 of which are hybrid-specific. Assuming a hybrid were to pass the inspection, it is then covered under a warranty that includes seven-year/100,000-mile limited powertrain coverage. Batteries are included, in this case under a pre-existing eight-year/100,000-mile factory hybrid battery warranty. If you should happen to break down, each certified Toyota comes with free roadside assistance for seven years. With a href="http://www.autobloggreen.com/2007/06/07/toyota-tops-1-million-worldwide-hybrid-sales/"over a million hybrids sold to date/a, Toyota has been seeing more and more come in as trade-ins, so it's only natural that the automaker would introduce a program to resell them and boost profit margins. Press release a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2009/01/21/batteries-i-are-i-included-toyota-rolls-out-certified-hybrid/"after the jump...br //abr /[Source: a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2009/01/21/batteries-i-are-i-included-toyota-rolls-out-certified-hybrid/"Toyota/a]pa href="http://www.autoblog.com/2009/01/21/batteries-i-are-i-included-toyota-rolls-out-certified-hybrid/" rel="bookmark"Continue reading emBatteries iIncluded/i: Toyota rolls out certified hybrid program/em/a/pp style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2009/01/21/batteries-i-are-i-included-toyota-rolls-out-certified-hybrid/"Batteries iIncluded/i: Toyota rolls out certified hybrid program/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.autoblog.com"Autoblog/a on Wed, 21 Jan 2009 17:28:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./ph6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2009/01/21/batteries-i-are-i-included-toyota-rolls-out-certified-hybrid/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/forward/1436196/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2009/01/21/batteries-i-are-i-included-toyota-rolls-out-certified-hybrid/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/apa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/X3e09bm3ABnPzTgOrLavMrz1FlU/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/X3e09bm3ABnPzTgOrLavMrz1FlU/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare"a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?a=b8mdrLeI"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?i=b8mdrLeI" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?a=0JXhhxdd"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?i=0JXhhxdd" border="0"/img/a/divimg src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/weblogsinc/autoblog/~4/jB8jF7J--YI" height="1" width="1"/

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