Aston Martin made a 430hp city car and we’re in love

Aston Martin’s two-seater Cygnet city car might not be your first port of call for a 430hp racer, but that hasn’t stopped the British automaker’s engineers crafting a bizarre one-off with the V8 engine of a Vantage. The unexpectedly potent runabout is the handiwork of the Q by Aston Martin commission team, the group within the car-maker that comes up with solutions to customers’ trickiest challenges.

In this case, the challenge was something along the lines of “turn my misunderstood city car into something that could cause heart-attacks on the track.”

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