Aston Martin Cygnet.
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Explain please?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring...W-and-Jaguar-over-climate-change-targets.html
The EU is going to tax car manufacturers based on the average Co2 output of their range.
For every 1g/km over the limit, they get fined £80 per g per car sold that the average is above the limit. So if a car marker's average is 20g over the limit, they get fine £1600 per car sold. The fines can get very big, very quickly.
Introducing cars like the cygnet to the range reduces the average Co2 output of the range as the average in this case is the mean, rather than the median. Thus helping the car maker avoid the fine. Since Aston only produces a couple of models - The V8 Vantage, DBS, DB9, Rapide, V12 Vantage and the One-77 the average can be brought down quite easily by the addition of just one low co2 model.
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Ahhh! I see! Thanks!
Going to be interesting to see how many of these get sold. If you have that amount of money to throw away (ie: An IQ is a third of the cost), then why not buy a Tesla Type S or something! Even greener, and super fast!
Aston dont care who buys it
the Legislation takes the average of the range when working out the average.
Sales only come into it once your over the limit. They will probably all end up being used as dealer hire cars like the Ferrari Fiat 500s.
the Legislation takes the average of the range when working out the average.
Sales only come into it once your over the limit. They will probably all end up being used as dealer hire cars like the Ferrari Fiat 500s.
Customers won't necessarily be buying them for the green factor, it just helps Aston achieve a target. They won't care if they sell many, in fact I doubt they really plan to, which is likely why they've bought in a design (the iQ) rather than spend millions developing their own car.
Then why go to such lengths? ie: Changing so much in/outside the car?
Because they need to add some sort of incentive and to be honest, what they've actually done to the cars is probably pretty cheap in real terms. Certainly compared to developing a whole new actual car in a market they have no experience of.
They can't just take off the Toyota badges, swap them for Aston ones and kick it out the door, swapping a few panels and adding some leather to the interior etc. is just enough to make it worth bothering.
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Is the name meant to be ironic ? ie Cygnet = Ugly Duckling
I would have thought it's more of a description than irony.
Sounds about right.
Still, you can always reconcile yourself to the fact that you'll probably never see one!
(Real AM owner buys, leaves in one of spare outbuildings, the one the horses used to use, so he/she doesnt have to look at it either!)
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I hadnt seen the finished item before.
Anyway, weren't these only to be available to buyers of 'proper' Aston Martins?
Either way, having it available as part of their range should make a big dent in the average emissions for the range (as I understand it this figure is based on the emissions of all available models so sticking a 110g/KM car in should reduce the average... I may of course be completely wrong about how this works) which will keep EU meddlocrats happy.....ish
Anyway, weren't these only to be available to buyers of 'proper' Aston Martins?
Either way, having it available as part of their range should make a big dent in the average emissions for the range (as I understand it this figure is based on the emissions of all available models so sticking a 110g/KM car in should reduce the average... I may of course be completely wrong about how this works) which will keep EU meddlocrats happy.....ish
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Cygnet != Ugly Duckling
Cygnet = baby Swan
Don't take facts from children's stories.
