Message from @Sediment
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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.*
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.*
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
The car haled as a disaster because it didn't sell
Totally intended
UK regulations take sales into account
AML make like 6k cars a year, them wanting to sell 4k is huge
literally huge
Just gonna ignore that part I guess
Yeah *so why are you even bringing it up*
@LOGiK Fair point
I can say with certainty that car manufacturers don't sell cars to make a loss, if they have bullshit regulations to comply with they just sell garbage ass engines in their cars
or suffocate them to shit