Aston Martin stuffed a V8 engine into its cute little Cygnet city car as a one-off commission project for a person who has a better imagination and bigger wallet than any of us, and it's like a wasp ...

The oft-maligned Cygnet has, since its debut, been something of an anachronism among Aston Martins. How could a four-cylinder city car wear the same badge, after all, as such legendary twelve-, eight- ...

Safet Šatara is a journalist and creative marketing junior with an avid passion for automobiles and everything that moves. With thousands of car reviews under his belt, he made a small but noticeable ...

You might think that Aston Martin would rather forget about its odd city car, the infamous Toyota iQ-based Cygnet. After all, what Aston now calls "a ground-breaking car bringing luxury to the city ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the automotive industry and where it is headed next. The Aston Martin Cygnet was already a rather strange car. It ...

Chase Bierenkoven is a gearhead and writer based in Denver, Colorado. As the family lore goes, Chase's first word was "truck." Cars have been a problem ever since. By 16, Chase was spending his ...

The Goodwood Festival of Speed is one of the few motoring events where electric cars haven't completely taken over. It's also where manufacturers let rip with their loudest, most exotic-sounding ...

Remember the Cygnet, the city car Aston Martin built by reskinning the much humbler (and otherwise cool) Toyota iQ? Of course you do. After all, how could one forget such a silly proposal? Well, ...

When Aston Martin unveiled the Cygnet, a rebadged Toyota/Scion iQ city car in 2011, the majority of gearheads didn’t know how to react. The Cygnet was added to Aston Martin’s product portfolio so that ...

Aston Martin just added ridiculous horsepower to a create a monstrously fast one-off version of the silliest, tiniest car it ever made. The Aston Martin Cygnet was produced between 2011 and 2012 as a ...

The original Cygnet isn't a properAston Martin—it's simply a leather-clad Toyota (Scion) iQ. The British marque's version of the front-wheel-drive city car theoretically satisfied the urban needs of ...

Most people call up Aston Martin’s ‘Q’ customizations division so they can get a special exterior color or unique interior feature on their new Aston Martin – but one customer called up the folks over ...