Aston Martin went bonkers when it made the Cygnet in 2011, and sold it for a few years. Why on earth did an automaker, known for V8 and V12-powered grand tourers like the Vanquish, create a city car ...

Stuffing a 4.7-liter V8 into a small city car makes absolutely no sense, but Aston Martin did it anyway, and we can't help but stand up and applaud. Follow us: If you never heard about the Aston ...

If you're in the market for the perfect city car, you're probably looking for something small, nimble and comfy that's made for navigating narrow streets and sitting in traffic. Those aren't qualities ...

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 ...

When first announced in 2011, the Aston Martin Cygnet piqued global interest: a tiny sub 845kg (curb weight) hatchback with Aston mechanical gubbins. Where do I sign? Instead, the world received an ...

In the late 2000s Aston Martin’s then-boss Uli Betz greenlighted a wacky plan to badge-engineer the Toyota IQ city car to create an Aston-branded urban runaround. But then an Aston customer came up ...

High-end carmakers have made some odd decisions over the years, but few are quite as perplexing, or strangely endearing, as the Aston Martin Cygnet. A luxury badge on a city car chassis sounds like a ...