When first announced in 2011, the Aston Martin Cygnet piqued global interest: a tiny sub 845kg (curb weight) hatchback with Aston mechanical gubbins. Where do I sign? Instead, the world received an Aston Martin-attired Toyota IQ.

T he original Aston Martin Cygnet is probably an Aston Martin we'll never see again. The small city car, based on a Toyota, isn't exactly a representation of the British brand tha

Aston Martin went bonkers when it made the Cygnet in 2011, and sold it for a few years. Why on earth did an automaker, known for V8 and V12-powered grand tourers like the Vanquish, create a city car based on a Toyota?

Many questioned whether the Aston Martin Cygnet city car was worthy of its family name. However, those critics were silenced in 2018 when Aston’s Q bespoke division produced this V8-powered monster. Now this one-off Super Cygnet is available for sale for the first time!

Built as a one-off by the boffins at Aston’s Q skunkworks division in 2018 and maintained by Aston since then, the V8 Cygnet is essentially a shrink-wrapped Vantage S, with all of its 430bhp sent to the rear wheels through a seven-speed paddle-shift auto.

Nicholas Mee & Co are offering the one and only Aston Martin Super Cygnet, a city car with an Aston Martin V8 spliced into its compact frame

Aston Martin built exactly one copy of the V-8-powered Super Cygnet, and now, this hilarious creation is available for public sale for the first time. Listed via Aston Martin seller Nicholas Mee in the United Kingdom,

It's done 2,900 miles. We dare you to drive it more. A few years ago, Aston Martin proved that you can do just about anything if the price is right. We have no idea how much the owner of the world's only V-8-powered Aston Martin Cygnet originally paid for this wild creation.

A one-off V8-powered Aston Martin Cygnet has come up for sale. The factory-built custom has a 4.7-liter engine from a Vantage S. In 2018 the Super Cygnet made its debut at the Goodwood FoS. In the late 2000s Aston Martin’s then-boss Uli Betz greenlighted a wacky plan to badge-engineer the Toyota IQ city car to create an Aston-branded urban runaround.