That's a difficult car to showcase anything with, as it already has many ecomods done to it by VW, and is already highly efficient.
There aren't that many of them around either : 69 "3L" are for sale in Europe according to autoscout24, out of 2056 Lupo's on their site.
Lupo is chosen for that reason that it can get best MPG:s for lowest money invested.
It's also quite an old car - the youngest are already 5 years old, so they're already beyond half their useful life, so they only have half the time left to repay any investment in ecomods.
That depends how old you want to drive your car. If the current one gets better mileage than the cars sold at the moment and it works why to change?
There are a lot of different cars out there, so you can't mod them all.
Picking the right cars to start the modding business with will be crucial.
Rear wheel fenders, grill block and flat hubcabs can be done to every car with little effort.
IMO, the car you showcase should
- be popular, so you have a lot of potential customers - but not an icon like a Mini as people may be reluctant to mod it ;
- be popular in countries with higher environmental awareness, like Scandinavia - despite the green hype, a lot of people can't be bothered ;
- not be too expensive, so it's bought by people who may actually want to save some money on gas ;
- have room for some easy improvements ;
- be rather recent but not brand new ;
- not be a car that is mostly sold to leasing companies - unless you can get them or their clients interested of course ;
That's a good start !
300 euro's won't buy me a lot of car parts - a spoiler or some
el-cheapo wheels .
Are you sure you can design, manufacture and sell an entire modding kit for that price ?
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hat 300 € was an estimate, but you could produse those Rear wheel fenders, grill block and flat hubcabs can be done to that money. and the savings in average car could be that 1€ in highway driving. with current petrol price that is only 0,7 liters
Unfortunately, those taxes don't take any ecomodding efforts into account.
Yes thats true
IMHO, the entire EU should tax cars only by the amount of fuel they effectively use (i.e. tax at the pump), it's the only way that takes both engine size and the way it's driven into account.
But that's a different story .