Dealing with a misunderstanding, as with Matt, is annoying enough.

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

Don't jump in a convo if you're just full <:thronk:441701565607444482>

*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.*

Yeah totally ignoring it

Annual target of 4000

Totally wanted it to sell

A whopping 4000 units was their total

How many cars do you think AML make and sell

Manufacturing scales with demand. A car company *does not make cars it does not intend to sell*

*It didn't achieve its goal of increasing the MPG average of their SALES*

Like Diet implied

UK regulations take sales into account

CAFE, in America, does not.

Great fucking example of cars designed to never sell