Aston Martin Cygnet Concept Car Revealed

My thoughts exactly. I was like "OH SH*T! It's not Aprils Fools' Day!?!?!"

lol if this is going to be the next bond car, I have a name for the new movie it should be called "007 lost his penis" lol

You read my mind .. my first thought was that it has to be an out of step April fools day joke

We also took a "wa wa what?" double take when we received the press release this morning. But i can confirm it's real as Toyota has released a simultaneous statement as well.

Hmmm, the Smart has never made any profit for Daimler, only losses, thus stockholders' calls to either terminate it, or unload it to somebody else . . .

Small cars hardly make any profit due to low sale price, and disproportionate manufacturing cost when compared to larger segment vehicles. This is why companies such as Ford and opel try to make as many derivatives to maximise the cost sharing, e.g. Mazda 2 and Fiesta, Fiat 500 and Ka etc.

a V8 in an iQ that looks like a AM. that boggles the mind, but THAT surely would interest me. lol

I really hope that u are right and agree about allowing for this car to exist for Aston's sake!

Obviously you have no sense of brand image. Cayenne was not an anti Porsche image. This AM however is. Since AM is not owned by any car company, they are doing it to meet average US CAFE requirements. I think they could have taken the hybrid route but thy would have been more expensive and challenging. So they resorted to rebadging tatics. If AM were still owned by Ford, this wouldn't be necessary.

No where does it say that this is a permenant thing, car-o-bar. For all we know they could still be working on a hybrid for use in several years. Thing is that for this moment, in this economic crisis where Trillions are being lost, this is by far the cheapest method for Aston Martin, which is a smart idea. Saving every little last dollar helps in the long run. Also lets not forget that design, and implementation of a hybrid would take time. Ironically in this market time is of the essence. Aston Martin did a great thing for their brand image, showing that they "too care about the environment" by creating an eco-friendly car as opposed to Aston strictly making gas-guzzling, tree eating cars. Also if they give the car away with ever car purchase, then the Mini-Aston is still just as exclusive and will show that at home you have an Aston Martin but today you decided to save a few birds from choking an exhaust. The parent could even give their kid the car to take to school, and will show "Hey everybody my dad has an Aston Martin." Now tell me how the Cayenne was not an Anti-Porsche image? The Cayenne made purists all accross the world scream in agony. They all screamed "This maker of fine two-door sport coup?s is making a bloated SUV with a massive engine thrown in the front!" Porschephiles sayed they'd never buy a Porsche again because of the Cayenne. Fastforward six years and everyone has just about forgotten about how the Cayenne "is not a Porsche" and they've grown to accept the fact that the Cayenne saved Porsche. Sir, I believe it is you who has no sense of brand imaging.

Hahaha...! I can gurantee this is not going to turn out to be a good idea for AM. Reskined Toyota IQ free with each AM DB6 or DB9 is just going to dilute the image. This is not payless shoes BOGO sale mister. AM's image is going to suffer because of this. I guess AM does not care because they do not have enough customers to lose in the first place. Plus customers will pay for cygnet anyways, Cygnet? Isn't that the commercial name for ARTIFICIAL diamond kind of thing... need I say more.