SPECIALTY AUTO BRANDS GET EXEMPTION, BUT NOT FREE RIDE FROM EU’S CO2 POLICY
September 1st, 2010
BY KEITH NUTHALL, MJ DESCHAMPS
SPORTY auto brands such as Italy's Ferrari or Britain's Aston Martin do not exactly go hand-in-hand with the image of environment-loving eco-cars such as Toyota's Prius hybrid. And maybe it is to enable such iconic manufacturers to keep turning out sleek, sexy cars that underpins Europe's reputation for automobile quality that the European Union (EU) is giving them an exemption from its CO2 emissions cap. This will only apply when such carmakers produce less than 10,000 vehicles-a-year, but so long as they do - they can concentrate ...
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