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How can James Bond balance the ascendancy deejay for the bifold GoldenEye digital weapons active something like this.

Brace yourself. Aston Martin just arise added abundant photos of its Cygnet affluence minicar, and it isn’t pretty. In fact, it looks a lot like Toyota’s Euro-based iQ on which it’s based.

Jalopnik, which arise official photos this morning, writes: “[T]he looks are…umm…well…as these aboriginal official images show, the Cygnet is still carefully based on the Toyota iQ city-limits car, application the aforementioned basal physique appearance and even the aforementioned foreground lights. The foreground has been accustomed a abundant Aston-style rework, however, complete with cast grille and even miniature beanie vents.”

Inside, the Cygnet will affection new colors and higher-quality materials, but absorb the iQ’s “instrument backpack and architecture,” adds Autocar. And admitting it has yet to be confirmed, industry analysts acquire that it’s aswell acceptable to affection the iQ’s 1.3-liter four-cylinder engine.

So what’s the accepted consensus? Most critics would accede with USA Today’s assessment: “[I]t could be the absolute car for a paunchy, middle-aged Bond, who continued ago absent his authorization to annihilate and now works as a British bureaucrat.”

Nevertheless, Aston Martin is touting the new Cygnet as a big win for the environment. “Aston says the Cygnet abstraction ‘represents a creative, environmentally acquainted solution, getting small, yet with attendance – and awful ammunition efficient, now accumulated with the authority of Aston Martin’s affluence cast ownership,’” address USA Today.

However, Motor Authority asserts that Aston is just aggravating to nab itself a area of the mini-car pie: “Theluxuryautomaker has articular that about 30% of absolute barter acquire smallcarssuch as aMiniorSmart ForTwoin their garages for city-limits traffic.”

Regardless, the Cygnet is accepted to hit the European auto bazaar in 2010 afore authoritative its way added west. Initially it will alone be offered to accepted Aston Martin owners, but will eventually be fabricated accessible to the accepted public. Expect a sticker amount of $32,000.

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