Cygnet may spell future of Aston Martin

The Cygnet, a retrimmed and rebadged Toyota iQ of Aston Martin, will have a vital role as the car manufacturer tries to meet the stricter regulations on emissions.

The EU has come up with the standards for the allowable carbon dioxide average of vehicle fleets of carmakers. The Aston Martin Cygnet will allow the company to survive in their key European markets without having to alter the engineering of their range of sports cars nor do they have to go for a V8 instead of their V12s.

The Cygnet powered by a 1.3L 96 bhp engine will cut the CO2 emissions average of Aston Martin into half with an average of around 115g/km.

The European Union’s rule will take effect by 2012 and will have different stages spread into four years. Come 2012, 65% of a carmaker’s fleet must meet the set standards while moving forward to 100% by 2015.

Small-volume manufacturers like Bentley and Aston Martin which only has between 1,000 units to 10,000 units rolling out of their factories every year can go for two options. They can compute the CO2 emission average with the production of the bigger group which they belong to or like Aston Martin, which is not part of a bigger group, can stand alone.

EU will allow Aston to have a lower target than the set 130 g/km. The car manufacturer needs to negotiate with the EU. With the current aim of selling around 1500 Cygnets every year, Aston Martin might actually meet the goals but if the car industry rebounds increasing the number of sales to around 3,000 units, this will push them to do something about their other models.

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