The Cygnet was introduced as a concept car in 2010 and launched a year later in order to lower Aston Martni’s fleet-wide emissions and boost its annual sales. It shares most of its sheetmetal and its 97-horsepower 1.3-liter gas-burning four-cylinder engine with the iQ (sold as a Toyota in Europe) but it offers buyers a luxurious and highly-customizable interior.
Aston Martin has not published precise production figures but the Cygnet was unpopular by most means of measurement and the automaker likely did not sell the 20,000 examples a year it initially planned. Curiously, the slow sales were largely attributed to how long it took to transform the iQ into a Cygnet.
“I’m not satisfied with Cygnet sales,” explained CEO Ulrich Bez in a September 2011 interview. “We can’t deliver as many as the customers want, as we don’t have enough stock. It is the sort of product a customer sees and decides they want on the spot – they don’t want to have to wait for their car to be built, but to drive it away there and then.”
Although production has reportedly ended, Aston dealers around the world still have a large supply of new Cygnets so it is not too late to purchase one. The car retails for £31,995 (roughly $51,300) in its home country, considerably more than the £10,995 (about $17,600) iQ.<![CDATA[
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