Think small: Scion's subcompact iQ set to hit U.S. in early 2011

Back in 1997, I test drove a Toyota Prius Hybrid. The car didn't go on sale in the U.S. until 2001, surely one of the slowest launches ever. Now there are 1.8 million Priuses on the road worldwide, 814,000 of them in the U.S.

By Paul Duchene

October 20, 2010