When first announced in 2011, the Aston Martin Cygnet piqued global interest: a tiny sub 845kg (curb weight) hatchback with Aston mechanical gubbins. Where do I sign? Instead, the world received an Aston Martin-attired Toyota IQ.

Aston Martin went bonkers when it made the Cygnet in 2011, and sold it for a few years. Why on earth did an automaker, known for V8 and V12-powered grand tourers like the Vanquish, create a city car based on a Toyota?

Built as a one-off by the boffins at Aston’s Q skunkworks division in 2018 and maintained by Aston since then, the V8 Cygnet is essentially a shrink-wrapped Vantage S, with all of its 430bhp sent to the rear wheels through a seven-speed paddle-shift auto.

Many questioned whether the Aston Martin Cygnet city car was worthy of its family name. However, those critics were silenced in 2018 when Aston’s Q bespoke division produced this V8-powered monster. Now this one-off Super Cygnet is available for sale for the first time!

T he original Aston Martin Cygnet is probably an Aston Martin we'll never see again. The small city car, based on a Toyota, isn't exactly a representation of the British brand tha

Based on a Toyota iQ, the Aston Martin Cygnet was a short-lived luxury city car that failed to sell. This one-off swaps the tiny engine for a huge V8.

Listed via Aston Martin seller Nicholas Mee in the United Kingdom, the price is marked “POA,” or price on application. The one-off Super Cygnet has 2,893 miles on it, all courtesy of the original buyer who commissioned it.

Nicholas Mee & Co are offering the one and only Aston Martin Super Cygnet, a city car with an Aston Martin V8 spliced into its compact frame

A one-off V8-powered Aston Martin Cygnet has come up for sale. The factory-built custom has a 4.7-liter engine from a Vantage S. In 2018 the Super Cygnet made its debut at the Goodwood FoS. In the late 2000s Aston Martin’s then-boss Uli Betz greenlighted a wacky plan to badge-engineer the Toyota IQ city car to create an Aston-branded urban runaround.

It's done 2,900 miles. We dare you to drive it more. A few years ago, Aston Martin proved that you can do just about anything if the price is right. We have no idea how much the owner of the world's only V-8-powered Aston Martin Cygnet originally paid for this wild creation.