In the announcement and six months after Toyota Motor began their cooperation, Aston Martin finally for the first time showed the Japanese car giant for themselves and the results of cooperation: Cygnet luxury mini cars. The car is still in the conceptual stage, while the R & D on the body is now under way, and to continue until 2010. It is anticipated that by 2011 or 2012, when the car will be mass production, and the Aston Martin’s UK and European buyers will be the first to use the car people. The company did not provide much new information about the car, but said the car is very “innovative sense of more environmentally friendly, more compact but without losing the luxury Aston Martin brand has always been style.”
The Cygnet based on Toyota’s iQ mini-car was developed, but will have a lot of Aston Martin’s unique design is to compare his own “tacky” brothers do not possess. Toyota’s iQ is only 9.8 feet in length, using a three-cylinder engine, and won the European car safety crash test center five-star safety evaluation.
The car’s engine should be from Toyota’s 1.3 liter dual VVT-i engine, maximum output power of 99 hp. With a one-click stop / start technology and CVT CVT transmission, this car Cygnet, the average fuel consumption of up to 55 miles per gallon, compared with 120 grams of carbon dioxide emissions per kilometer.
Aston Martin developed the natural background of this micro-car in the world for transport fuel economy and emissions targets increasingly harsh. By 2012, when Europe’s new emission standards will be initiated. Relatively low output of the car manufacturers, such as Aston Martin, Ferrari and Lamborghini have always been those with power as a selling point for the brand will be because of their emissions do not meet standards by a heavy blow. And Aston Martin do not like is that Ferrari and Lamborghini will make this difficult task over to its own parent company, to share the burden, here we are referring to is the parent company Fiat, and Volkswagen Group.
Similarly, nor is any one person can afford a Cygnet’s. In order to purchase become a reality, buyers must first have an Aston Martin.
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