Cygnet's colour shocker

Aston's city car to offer unrivaled scope for personalisation

Auto Express Car Reviews

By Tom Phillips

16th March 2010

ASTON MARTIN has a tiger in its tank! Thanks to its ability to hand-finish each and every car it builds, buyers of the new Cygnet city car will be able to opt from a striking array of paint finishes. These images are taken from the firm's website, and preview a number of choices that buyers may opt for when the car goes on sale later this year, including this tiger-inspired scheme.

See the Cygnet in our Geneva Motor Show video

An Aston Martin spokesman confirmed, “Because the Cygnet is finished by hand, and not mass produced, in no other car in this segment can you exercise such a degree of personalisation.”

He also confirmed that Aston will not offer any options to change anything mechanical on the car, but the range of colour and trim choices will be almost limitless, including all of the options pictured here.

And while the option to choose from a near-limitless palette of colours for the firm’s existing cars has been offered for some time, Cygnet buyers will be positively encouraged to exercise their creative juices when ordering their cars, making each one unique.

The firm is currently collecting expressions of interest via its dealers and its official website, with “a healthy interest” being shown by the number of positive responses.

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1 Comment

Moronic

Three of the six colour schemes illustrated are positively dangerous. Anything which breaks up the outline of the vehicle can render it very difficult to see, or at the very least, to determine what exactly one is seeing. It doesn't matter how bright the colours are, British Rail (remember them) painted big yellow and black chevrons on the front of their locos some years back and discovered that the engineering workers couldn't see them. In WWI, ships were painted in this way to make them difficult to see. Even DRLs will be of diminished value on these cars. The technical term for this is camouflage. Still, you wouldn't expect a car company to know about that sort of thing, would you? A lawyers' dream come true.

By PedroConejo on 16 March, 2010, 3:10pm

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