Mr. Bruce Potterton

Bruce Potterton

"It's pretty brutal," says Bruce Potterton, a salesperson at Richmond Hill Toyota, adding most Priuses are gobbled up by the U.S. market."We don't even have one to road test; nobody does."(Only one dealership in the region has a Prius demonstrator.)

Most people asking about the Prius balk at the wait or the price but others are determined to buy one, Mr. Potterton says.