Aston Martin Preparing Cygnet City-Car for Launch Next Year

by Noah Joseph (RSS feed)
Oct 6th 2009 at 11:02PM

Driving an Aston Martin sportscar along a twisting mountain road is our idea of a little slice of heaven. Driving one through downtown city traffic, however, is not. That's what Aston Martin themselves figure with the Cygnet project.

Announced back in June, the Cygnet takes a humble Toyota iQ city car and dresses it up in Aston Martin clothing, offering the British automaker's customers an alternative to driving their sportscars through the city, and saving them instead for a weekend romp through the countryside. Reports now indicate that the car could be ready to go as early as next year. With a price tag of $32,000 – roughly twice as much as the iQ on which it's based – Toyota will reportedly ship the cars pre-assembled from Japan to Aston's facility in England where they will be retrofitted with trademark Aston Martin luxury, only without the big engine up front.

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klitorisaurus Oct 7th 2009 12:01AM

Doesn't this dilute the brands image? Do you have to prove you own a real Aston to buy one? I'd hope so...

And why not squeeze 300hp into the thing? At least make it fun!