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

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

you can see that from the 70s all the way up to today

the old underpowered shitty american cars with huge engines that were detuned to shit

hell even in the 90s with the US spec M3 that was detuned

and now, look to china with western cars

where because of import taxes and taxes on big engines

they offered really horrible engines in huge cars

there was a jag XJ on sale in china with a 2.0 diesel

Those 1970s engines weren't detuned by choice.

That was universal emissions regulations that choked those

"Regulations affect products on the market" god forbid