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Aston Martin Gets Extension on U.S. Crash Standards
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has given Aston Martin Lagonda Ltd. as much as two more years to meet U.S. side impact airbag standards.
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The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has given Aston Martin Lagonda Ltd. as much as two more years to meet U.S. side impact airbag standards.
The exemption runs to September 2016 for the British carmaker's DB9 touring cars and to September 2017 for its Vantage sports cars.
NHTSA agreed that forcing Aston Martin to comply with the side-impact safety requirements sooner would "cause substantial economic hardship to a low-volume manufacturer that has tried in good faith to comply with the standard."
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