The Toyota RAV4 Hybrid sold 92,525 units in 2019, beating out the Toyota Prius, which sold 69,718 units.

This makes the RAV4 hybrid Toyota's best-selling hybrid overall so far this year, and the hybrid model is making up around 21 percent of overall RAV4 sales.

The Camry hybrid is next in the rankings, at 26,043 units, and the Highlander hybrid sold 18,248 units in 2019.

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UPDATE 1/3/20: Year-end sales numbers are in, and the RAV4 has extended its lead over the Prius. We have updated this story with full-year 2019 numbers.

The RAV4 has already surpassed the Camry as Toyota's best-selling model, and now its hybrid variant has dethroned another iconic Toyota top seller: the Prius. Through 2019, the RAV4 hybrid sold more units than the entire Toyota Prius lineup, and by a wide margin, at 92,525 units to 69,718 units.

This makes the RAV4 hybrid Toyota's best-selling hybrid overall, and it made up around 21 percent of all RAV4 sales in 2019. The RAV4, fresh off a redesign for the 2019 model year, sold 448,071 units overall, a 5 percent increase over last year.

Prius sales, meanwhile, have been taking a sharp nosedive. The hybrid hatchback is down 20 percent over last year, despite an update for 2019 that includes a new option for all-wheel drive.

The fact that the RAV4 is getting closer and closer to the Prius in fuel economy is surely a factor. While the new RAV4 hybrid model's 40-mpg EPA combined rating is still a far cry from the Prius's 50-to-56-mpg rating, it is a huge improvement over its predecessor's 32-mpg combined rating. In our testing, a 2019 RAV4 hybrid Limited achieved 32 mpg overall and 37 mpg on our 75-mph highway fuel-economy test, while a 2019 Prius XLE e-AWD hit 44 mpg and 47 mpg in those same metrics.

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This story was originally published in July 2019.