Cygnet

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I'm thinking of buying swmbo one of these after she spotted one at Excel at the weekend having drifted out the boat show to the Classic car show. I am fully aware of the Marmite nature of this car, but if any one on here has one,I would be delighted to receive some feedback, in particular is manual or auto the way to go.

One thing I was surprised at was the fact it took 150 hours to build/ butcher a Cygnet and only another 50 extra to build a DB9 !

Please be gentle with your abuse

Edited by good grief on Monday 12th January 16:59

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Thanks for your helpful measured reply. Your comments echo what I was thinking,,if she likes it , and ( hopefully ) it should not fall right out of bed value wise it's probably worth a punt. Just may have to teach her how to use a stick and peddle again.

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Neil1300r said:

Someone has to say it -



The Toyota is a brilliantly packaged, low cost car. Driving it through Hellfrauds bolt on department doesn't improve it one bit. In my eyes it just made it look ugly and cheap

Buy an IQ of the same year and save yourself money. If you want a well designed leather interior, thats great as a City car - buy a MINI with the auto box. Want it with performance buy a Cooper S with the auto box.

If you don't want a MINI or an IQ look at a Fiat 500

Blimey, I'm not sure it's that bad.

Friend of mine bought a CooperS works, parted with over £30 grand for it, sold it a few years later for about £6000 with average miles on it, mind you cannot argue about which would be the better drive.

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Neil1300r said:

Someone has to say it -



The Toyota is a brilliantly packaged, low cost car. Driving it through Hellfrauds bolt on department doesn't improve it one bit. In my eyes it just made it look ugly and cheap

Buy an IQ of the same year and save yourself money. If you want a well designed leather interior, thats great as a City car - buy a MINI with the auto box. Want it with performance buy a Cooper S with the auto box.

If you don't want a MINI or an IQ look at a Fiat 500

Blimey, I'm not sure it's that bad.

Friend of mine bought a CooperS works, parted with over £30 grand for it, sold it a few years later for about £6000 with average miles on it, mind you cannot argue about which would be the better drive.

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outofstepuk said:

Did the £15k one exist, or just one of the annoying wanted ads all along?

To be honest at under £15k I'd be tempted to get one. Bit of fun and can't see much of a downside from there.

My thoughts, I suspect that one is a red Herring.

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michael gould said:

what development costs ?? templates for the leather seats ?.......the Cygnet is a Toyota IQ in tarts clothing ......nothing more

Bit more to it than that.... The only original panel from the donor car was the roof.