Message from @Sediment
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Compliance cars are a thing, too; cars made to appease government regulation rather than to make money.
What?
So the cars made to comply with regulations aren't meant to be sold
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They're meant to sit there while the noncompliant cars sell??
What the fuck are you even saying
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You are talking nonsense.
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And what the fuck is a loss leader supposed to do for a car company?
Oh if they buy this economy car maybe they'll come back next week and also buy our luxury SUV??
Achieve some other goal, like _not incurring billions of dollars in fines for defying government regulation_
OH, SO THEY CAN SELL THEIR NONCOMPLIANT CARS WITHOUT ISSUE?
??????????
If the government decrees your _average_ fuel economy is to be 25mpg
Case in point: The Aston Martin Cygnet
But no one will buy your 55mpg econobox
Then you still sell it anyway so that you can say to the government "see? We _offer_ plenty of efficient cars! It's not our fault people don't buy them. Our lineup is at 25mpg average!"
Dealing with a misunderstanding, as with Matt, is annoying enough.
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*Aston Martin Cygnet.* Seriously, its job is to increase the average MPG of the fleet.
At the very least, _recognize_ when you know literally nothing and _inquire_ rather than act like a know-it-all.
We might as well rename this channel "Regulations and Economics", since we discus it here enough lol
if cars don't sell, I don't think they ever impact targets
They do in the US
CAFE is lineup only, not sales
Yeah sure the cygnet didn't get shitcanned because they couldn't sell it or anything
They definitely kept it on without any care about sales
It wasn't supposed to sell
Totally what they wanted
Made their goal for sure
Now there _are_ other extra standards that do take sales into account
also, dealers don't want cars taking up their showroom space if they don't sell and dealers also don't want cars to end up eroding their brand value
So they keep line 1 or 2 Volts on the lot for people that actually buy them.
Or they tell the dealers "tough tiddies, deal with it"
A car company does not make a product which is not intended to be sold.
Period.
*The Aston Martin Cygnet is a rebadged variant of the Toyota/Scion iQ marketed by Aston Martin beginning with model year 2011—enabling Aston Martin to comply with the 2012 European Union-imposed fleet average emissions regulations.*