Motor racing legend Sir Stirling Moss has brought a smattering of glamour to the controversial Toyota-in-a-Savile-Row-suit that is the Aston Martin Cygnet.
The car, one of the first Cygnets off the production line, was presented to Lady Moss as a surprise birthday present at the RAC Club in London last night (thank you for making us look bad, Sir Stirling - the best most of us can manage is a slap-up meal at the local Italian and a bunch of flowers).
"Susie is an amazing person and frankly the best wife a man could have," Says Moss. "Since seeing a pre-production Cygnet in January I knew that it was the perfect car for Susie; a proper little piece of British luxury and perfect for our life in town."
Ahhhhh, ain't that sweet? Except for the fact that Aston's city car fails to be sufficiently lean to be exempt from London's congestion charge. But we'll brush over that one, because the Mosses can probably afford it...
And if you think it odd that such an emphatically rapid fellow should pick such a pedestrian Aston, don't forget that he has city transport form; his former Vespa scooter recently went up for auction, and he was famously an early adopter of the first-gen Smart. It's still not quite in the same league as the Aston DBR1s et al he used to race in the 1950s, mind...
Lady Moss: It's lovely, darling, but...
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...what have you done with the rest of the car?
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