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. fuel-consumption cycle. It came in at only 2,028 pounds. Aston began production in 2011, making a very short run, but it did have some notable owners, including Sir Stirling Moss’ wife.

The tiny transporter didn’t come cheap, either: In the U.K. it sold for 30,995 British pounds, or about $50,000 in the U.S.

Autocar claims there are just 143 examples currently on British roads. The outfit also guesses that the company’s partnership with AMG could yield another small vehicle in the future.

By Jake Lingeman