Aston Martinbuilt this special Cygnet on request from one ... Although it's ridiculous, Aston Martin deserves credit for fitting such a big engine into such a tiny car. The automaker is getting ...

The oft-maligned Cygnet has ... to be fitted longitudinally. Aston’s craftsmen had to fit a new bulkhead and transmission tunnel to make room for the bigger engine, keeping its accompanying ...

Several years ago, Aston Martin engineers ... shifter in the regular Cygnet. There's even a fly-off emergency brake positioned between the front seats. The engine is fired to life using Aston's ...

Remember the Aston Martin Cygnet? What a ridiculous little thing that was. It was essentially just a Toyota IQ supermini hatchback—with the same 1.3-liter, 100-horsepower, three-cylinder engine ...

Aston Martin went bonkers when it made the ... just 4.2 seconds and taps out at 170mph. Apart from the engine and transmission, the V8 Cygnet's subframes and suspension were also taken from ...

If you hold, as we do, that the combination of a small car and a large engine is a noble ... the Q by Aston Martin department has turned the Cygnet into a car with performance worthy of its ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Aston Martin Cygnet is basically a Scion iQ with a new ... Imagine if that car had a fancy interior and an engine that made just under 100 horsepower. The 90 horsepower Aston Martin 2-Liter ...

A lot more power. So Aston Martin built a single, custom Cygnet V8. Technicians took out the original 1.0-liter, four cylinder engine and installed an engine from the Aston Martin V8 Vantage S ...

The project was handed down to the company's bespoke vehicle customization division dubbed Q by Aston Martin. While simply swapping the Cygnet's stock engine with a powerful yet compactly-packed ...