The last time the team won the race overall, in 1959, Carroll Shelby was driving. Now it’s bringing a new car, the futuristic ...

Automakers are prone to questionable design and engineering decisions, and can occasionally push the envelope in places they ...

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 ...

Q is basically Aston Martin's "whatever ... automotive packaging. The Cygnet's original 1.3 was mounted transversely, as many small compacts do, to save room in the engine bay.

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 ...

A one-of-a-kind Aston Martin is being offered for sale for the first time ever - but the car is more Oddjob than 007. With an asking price of 'just under half a million pounds', you might expect ...

What followed was a classic piece of engineering skunk works, as a small team at the factory disassembled a Cygnet and completely rebuilt it around the new engine. To accommodate the V8, the front and ...

The Cygnet, you see, is a Toyota iQ dressed up to look like an Aston Martin. Aston Martin and Lexus ... fitted with a 1.3-liter, 97-hp engine and a CVT transmission. There, the tiny car's exterior ...

Unsurprisingly, the engine ... Aston’s famously lazy Sportshift automatic gearbox. Admittedly, the seven-speed automated manual was never the Vantage’s strong point, but as the V8 Cygnet ...

But it’s funny how perspective can change with time and the application of a 4.7-litre V8 engine. That’s because this isn’t any Aston Martin Cygnet. It’s what can only be described as an ...

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 ...