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Aston Martin drops Cygnet city car

Autocar is reporting that the diminutive Aston Martin Cygnet has been dropped from the company’s portfolio. The automaker, now owned by Prodrive and private equity firm Invenstindustrial, will focus on its “core product range,” also known as “good cars.” Autocar posits that the justification for the Cygnet was to continue producing V8 and V12 cars, while keeping its average CO2 emissions down. The Cygnet shared bones with the Toyota iQ city car and used a 97-hp, 1.3-liter engine and got 58.9 mpg using the U.S.

VW & Porsche could become Auto Union

It looks like Porsche and VW may come together under the Auto Union banner. Of course, all these shenanigans have come about because of Porsche’s desire to gobble up VW. The plan looked great, and Porsche grabbed a big chunk of VW stock.

Volvo and Pininfarina to end their Swedish joint venture for the C70

Volvo Car Corp. will take full ownership of a Swedish car assembly joint venture that it started eight years ago with Italy's Pininfarina S.p.A. Volvo said it will assume responsibility for Pininfarina Sverige AB and its operations in Uddevalla, Sweden, in May 2013.