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Aston Martin is the car maker that rebadged a Toyota iQ as the "Cygnet", so that their sports car customers could have an fuel efficient vehicle for city drivin
by perl4ever 6y ago
Aston Martin is the car maker that rebadged a Toyota iQ as the "Cygnet", so that their sports car customers could have an fuel efficient vehicle for city driving. I gather the theory was some European cities restrict what cars can enter based on emissions. They maybe were imagining it sort of like a yacht tender.
Anyway, it was basically a cubic Toyota, for three times the usual price. They didn't sell many.
- mywittyname 6y agoI swear that, at one point, the Cygnet was included "free" with the purchase of another Aston, maybe the V12 Vanquish or DBS, in an effort to improve the company's emissions average. I remember this being in the news back when the Cygnet was released, but I can't find any references to this anywhere.
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- dole 6y agoBasically entirely bought and rebadged just to "allow Aston Martin to comply with the European Union’s fleet average emissions standards to take place in 2012." [1] [1]: https://3automotive.wordpress.com/2011/01/26/1183/ https://3automotive.wordpress.com/2011/01/26/1183/