While slow sales and a $50,000 price tag may have been contributing factors to the Aston Martin Cygnet being cancelled ... Toyota plans on dropping the iQ (on which the Cygnet is based) in 2014 ...

the V8 Cygnet is a showcase of the levels that Q by Aston Martin can go to if a customer so desires. Starting life as a basic Cygnet, itself a rebodied version of Toyota’s clever iQ city car ...

Back in 2010, of course, the Cygnet did make some kind of business sense; without a large parent company, Aston would have to ...

It’s also front-wheel drive when operating exclusively on electric power, but that’s not a first for Aston Martin. Remember the Cygnet? The short-lived, badge-engineered Scion iQ was front ...