For your last question, it's no ...Targol wrote:[...] Only for marketing issues then, because the legislation and the limitations are model by model.
It is not because one of the cars in their range will be well below the max emissions of CO2 allowed that the entire range will be salable in Europe.
Moreover, it makes me think of a question: Are there any standards in place currently in Europe that prohibit the sale (or circulation) of vehicles beyond a certain threshold of CO2 km?
But it's not impossible that it will happen someday ...
However, considering the type of cars produced by the Germans in particular, I think we will have to wait a long time ...
It therefore also responds to the second paragraph: there is no "limitation" of CO2 or maximum authorized for a vehicle.
Which brings us back to the first paragraph for which I think you're wrong.
The European Commission "asks" (but I do not know if there is a law for that?) That the whole range of vehicles sold by a manufacturer be on average below 140 gr CO2 / km. On the other hand, I do not know if it is weighted by the distribution of the sales or only on the models present in the catalog.
This is one of the reasons that pushed Benz to do classes A and B and to buy back Smart completely (models on which there is much less to do ...).
That's also why BMW did the MINI when they sold ROVER.