{"id":144689,"date":"2010-01-06T10:31:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-06T15:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/01\/06\/rumormill-aston-martin-could-build-hybrid-lagonda-all-electric\/"},"modified":"2010-01-06T10:31:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-06T15:31:00","slug":"rumormill-aston-martin-could-build-hybrid-lagonda-all-electric-cygnet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/144689","title":{"rendered":"Rumormill: Aston Martin could build hybrid Lagonda, all-electric Cygnet"},"content":{"rendered":"

Filed under: Coupe<\/a>, Hybrid<\/a>, Performance<\/a>, SUV<\/a>, Aston Martin<\/a>, Rumormill<\/a>, Electric<\/a>, Luxury<\/a><\/p>\n

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Aston Martin Lagonda Concept – Click above for high-res image gallery<\/small><\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n

\nAre hybrid drivetrains befitting of a premium luxury and performance brand? Well, that depends on who you ask. According to such diverse automakers as BMW<\/a>, Mercedes-Benz<\/a>, Jaguar<\/a>, Rolls-Royce<\/a> and even Ferrari<\/a> and Lamborghini<\/a>, the answer is ‘yes’. Aston Martin<\/a> CEO Dr. Ulrich Bez, though, reportedly believes otherwise. “The current hybrid technologies are not suited to the character of Aston Martin sports cars,” explains Bez.<\/p>\n

We’re not so sure we agree, especially since Aston’s long-planned Lagonda<\/a> revival – which may or may not come wrapped in an ungainly SUV package – is rumored to be equipped with a hybrid powertrain. After all, the torque-rich nature of electric motors certainly wouldn’t be a bad thing for a luxury tourer.<\/p>\n

A few branches up on the green tree, Aston Martin’s tiny Toyota iQ<\/a>-based Cygnet<\/a> minicar could quite possibly get a fully electric drivetrain, which would seem to make sense given that car’s stated mission as an urban runabout for those times when a V12 Vanquish could be considered overkill<\/a>. Beautiful, sonorous, splendid overkill…<\/p>\n

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Gallery: Lagonda Concept<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\n[Source: Autotelegraaf.nl<\/a> via Motor Authority<\/a>]<\/p>\n

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Filed under: Coupe, Hybrid, Performance, SUV, Aston Martin, Rumormill, Electric, Luxury Aston Martin Lagonda Concept – Click above for high-res image gallery Are hybrid drivetrains befitting of a premium luxury and performance brand? Well, that depends on who you ask. According to such diverse automakers as BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Jaguar, Rolls-Royce and even Ferrari and Lamborghini, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/78"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}