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Aston Martin Cygnet first photos

The Cygnet small car — an unabashed makeover of the Toyota IQ — today was shown in its production-ready guise.  Though it shares two doors with (most) other Astons, it won't share their price tag.

However, it is believed the Cygnet won't come cheap, flying in at about $60,000 — that is, four times the price of an IQ — thanks to the same quality level of fittings and features. It has, for example, similar audio systems and the cabin is hand-trimmed in leather.

Aston says the car may be available in Australia but sees it more as a complement car for city-borne owners of its larger machinery.  But though it will appease luxury car buyers with its stubby dimensions and environmental badges, Aston is particularly using the Cygnet as a means of reducing the marque's corporate CO2 footprint.

Its 1.3-litre automatic (a manual is available) gets about 4.8 litres/100km and goes 670km before topping up.  The Cygnet is expected to go public at the Geneva Motor Show in March next year and could start production later in 2010.

Neil Dowling
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GoAutoMedia Cars have been the corner stone to Neil’s passion, beginning at pre-school age, through school but then pushed sideways while he studied accounting. It was rekindled when he started contributing to magazines including Bushdriver and then when he started a motoring section in Perth’s The Western Mail. He was then appointed as a finance writer for the evening Daily News, supplemented by writing its motoring column. He moved to The Sunday Times as finance editor and after a nine-year term, finally drove back into motoring when in 1998 he was asked to rebrand and restyle the newspaper’s motoring section, expanding it over 12 years from a two-page section to a 36-page lift-out. In 2010 he was selected to join News Ltd’s national motoring group Carsguide and covered national and international events, launches, news conferences and Car of the Year awards until November 2014 when he moved into freelancing, working for GoAuto, The West Australian, Western 4WDriver magazine, Bauer Media and as an online content writer for one of Australia’s biggest car groups. He has involved himself in all aspects including motorsport where he has competed in everything from motocross to motorkhanas and rallies including Targa West and the ARC Forest Rally. He loves all facets of the car industry, from design, manufacture, testing, marketing and even business structures and believes cars are one of the few high-volume consumables to combine a very high degree of engineering enlivened with an even higher degree of emotion from its consumers.
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