Some things just don't go together. Mustard and chocolate. Camaros and caviar. Aston Martin and minicars. The Toyota iQ-based Cygnet is dead.
Rumors of the Cygnet's death have swirled for a week now, but Autocar confirms the minicar is out of production and won't be revived.

Aston Martin had intended the Cygnet as a hand-crafted, compact city runabout to serve as the counterpart to its high-end, wide, and gas-thirsty supercars the way a tender boat serves a yacht. It looks like that fantasy is over.

Priced from the equivalent of about $48,500, the Cygnet was based on the Toyota iQ, but lightly re-bodied, and heavily re-worked on the inside, with many custom cues from the brand's larger high-performance cars. Aston Martin hasn't released total sales figures on the Cygnet, but it's safe to say that not many owners opted to add the tiny car to their bewinged fleet.

We can't say we're sad to see it go, though Sir Stirling Moss might be.

Following a rumor last week, Aston Martin has announced it has ended production of the Cygnet, a two-door city car heavily based on the Scion iQ.

The Cygnet was introduced as a concept car in 2010 and launched a year later in order to lower Aston Martin's fleet-wide emissions and boost its annual sales. It shares most of its sheet metal and its 97-horsepower 1.3-liter gas-burning four-cylinder engine with the iQ (sold as a Toyota in Europe) but it offers buyers a luxurious and highly-customizable interior.



The tiny four-seater had a negligible effect on Aston's CO2 emissions, lowering the brand's average from 306 grams per kilometer to just 294. The recent technical partnership with Mercedes' AMG division will give the British firm access to more efficient engines for its high-end vehicles and eliminate the need for cars like the Cygnet. Unsurprisingly, Aston Martin confirmed it will not fill the void left by the Cygnet with a new entry-level model.

Aston Martin has not published precise production figures but the Cygnet was unpopular by most means of measurement and the automaker likely did not sell the 20,000 examples a year it initially planned. Curiously, the slow sales were largely attributed to how long it took to transform the iQ into a Cygnet.

"I'm not satisfied with Cygnet sales,"� explained CEO Ulrich Bez in a September 2011 interview. "We can't deliver as many as the customers want, as we don't have enough stock. It is the sort of product a customer sees and decides they want on the spot - they don't want to have to wait for their car to be built, but to drive it away there and then."�

Although production has ended, Aston dealers around the world still have a large supply of new Cygnets so it is not too late to purchase one. The car retails for �31,995 (roughly $51,300) in its home country, considerably more than the �​10,995 (about $17,600) iQ.