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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

@Sediment You're a fucking retard. Go away

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.

I hope a mouse shits in your coffee grounds and you get hantavirus.

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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.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_iQ#Aston_Martin_Cygnet

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.*

yes they do

Unless doing otherwise would lose money

They cannot just throw money away like that. There is no such thing as a loss leader in the car industry.

the less a car sells the more likely it is to more or less be built to order due to customer spec requirements

You know what throwing money away is?

Not selling the Cygnet and paying $billions in fines

Look at this faggot, willfully ignoring my link lol

*The Cygnet was cancelled due to disastrously low sales, with the car reaching only 150 units in the UK (approximately 300 in total) rather than its annual target of 4000.*