The world's smallest and perhaps rarest Aston Martin is up for sale. The little Cygnet was a collaboration with Toyota, but the only one with a V8 engine.
The world's smallest Aston Martin is up for sale.
Less than 1,000 copies of the small Cygnet were built, which was a version of the equally microscopic Toyota iQ with a different logo.
But this particular Cygnet is not like the approximately 1,000 others. The car is the only one of its kind in the entire world to have a 4.7-liter V8 engine.
An engine that was also in the Vantage of the time. Here it produces 430 horsepower and a whopping 488 newton meters. Incidentally, Aston Martin has never said how fast it is from 0 to 100 km/h, so not exactly.
It should theoretically go from 0 to 60 mph (0 to 96 km/h) in 4.2 seconds, primarily because the car weighs no more than 3,000 pounds (1,375 kilograms). The manual says it's good for a top speed of 170 mph (273 km/h).
According to the dealer , the car has just 2,900 miles or 4,600 kilometers with its first and only owner behind the wheel since it rolled out of the factory in 2018.
To keep the muscle in the relatively small space, Aston Martin fitted the car with carbon fiber discs all around. The car also got instrumentation from the larger Vantage S.
The British also had to make the bodywork a good deal wider before there was even room for the engine, which is enormous in Cygnet size terms.
The price of the car is not publicly available. But according to the site This is Money, the dealer wants 500,000 British pounds for the Aston Martin V8 Cygnet. In Danish currency, that's the equivalent of 4.5 million kroner. And that's before we start adding taxes on top.
The registration tax would be absurd to guess at. Most of all because there can never be any real basis for comparison.
However, this does not mean that the car cannot be registered. Because in England the car is type approved. This means that it should, at least in principle, also be approved here.
