July 2, 2009 faii Aroundtheweb, Automotive

Autocar – Updated: Aston Cygnet gallery

Autocar – Updated: Aston Cygnet gallery .

What in the world is the most suave automotive manufacturer doing with a tiny rebadged miyagi car… (by the way, it’s called the iQ in nippon, which might signify something surprisingly lacking on the part of my dream marque>< )

I can’t help but think that by making it mandatory to already own an Aston before being allowed to purchase this little egg-on-wheels, it just mollycoddles those feel-good ecomentalists. Six days a week on the yacht that is a DBS, and one on this cygnet-dinghy, supposedly to save the world. And yes, on a dinghy.

It’s like those celebrities who buy a prius, or several (whatever for), to add a bit of pretty icing on a stable of big muscly horses.

And when here i am thinking that everything could only getting better with the DBS, the v12 vantage (oooh lala), the DBR9, and what not, it comes and poops a baby bird onto our laps. The world wants more power from aston’s asthmatic engines! It surely deserves a podium finish along with ferrari and lambo…

Now we all know why that Aston is the only manufacturer handing out Emotional Control Units to each customer.

cygnet |?sign?t|nouna young swan.ORIGIN late Middle English : from Anglo-Norman French cignet, diminutive of Old French cigne ‘swan,’ based on Latin cycnus, fromGreek kuknos.

EDIT: the more i look at pictures of it, the more it looks like a Rayman Raving Rabbid crossed with a steamed bun/mantou. a fine example of one’s mouth (the grille) being too big for his (or its) own good. Furthermore, whatever does a car that small need bonnet vents for?

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