RE: Cygnet Colette: Fashion, Aston And Toyota Meet

RE: Cygnet Colette: Fashion, Aston And Toyota Meet

Monday 27th June 2011

Cygnet Colette: Fashion, Aston And Toyota Meet

Paris fashion house adds bits to limited-edition Cygnet. And charges £43k



Fans of Aston Martin's Cygnet (and there must be a few somewhere) will be pleased to learn there's a new way to spend over £43,000.

It's called the 'Cygnet & Colette' and is the result of a collaboration between Aston Martin and Parisian fashion house Colette. It's still a Cygnet, however, and that means throwing away the best bits of a normal Aston Martin, grafting the remaining grill to the front of a Toyota iQ, and dropping in an (admittedly exquisitely) tailored interior.

Unique to the Colette edition is the Lightning Silver paint with Colette blue details, a 'race collection' inspired front bumper and bonnet livery, door handle badges, enamelled boot badge, mirror caps and diamond-turned alloy wheels.


Entry is gained using a solid aluminium and blue enamelled key-ring, and inside there's a 'Bitter Chocolate' interior (sadly not edible) which, apparently, captures the essence of the Colette's mascot - Oscar the chocolate Labrador (mmmm... Eau de wet chien... Ed.).

Orders for the 'Cygnet & Colette' can be placed at the Colette store in Paris and, with a limited run of 14 cars, exclusivity is guaranteed.



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filski666

Original Poster:

3,841 posts

191 months

Monday 27th June 2011
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just what I have always wanted.... a car with scatter cushions!! - WTF??!!!

Johnboy Mac

2,666 posts

177 months

Monday 27th June 2011
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biglaugh

CommanderJameson

22,096 posts

225 months

Monday 27th June 2011
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>hides this thread from Mrs J<

hotrod scott

1,308 posts

199 months

Monday 27th June 2011
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0.83 average the lowest i have ever seen! hehe

Johnboy Mac

2,666 posts

177 months

Monday 27th June 2011
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hotrod scott said:
0.83 average the lowest i have ever seen! hehe
0.56 for you now wink

zakelwe

4,449 posts

197 months

Monday 27th June 2011
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The more this happens the more I like the original IQ. Well done Toyota.

I just knocked it down to 0.42 ....


tridave

249 posts

202 months

Monday 27th June 2011
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Now this just getting fking stupid

Turbobanana

6,160 posts

200 months

Monday 27th June 2011
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Wasn't there a Nissan Micra Collette years ago?

(Runs away when realises nobody actually cares...)

RTH

1,057 posts

211 months

Monday 27th June 2011
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Does not seem to matter what they do to it, it still is not attractive , I cannot see anything glamorous about it.

Stu - B

502 posts

175 months

Monday 27th June 2011
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Bugger. Accidently rated it 1.

suffolk009

5,344 posts

164 months

Monday 27th June 2011
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(is it true that Victoria Beckham will be doing a limited edition, or am I mixing my brand ambassadors?)

Hellbound

2,500 posts

175 months

Monday 27th June 2011
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I just gave it a 10.

Muwhahahaaargh!

Statistics would probably end up showing that the 14 buyers of these will be female, rich and attractive.

That's why I'm all for it. I'm single, and like attractive french women who can buy me pasties and cider.

E36GUY

5,906 posts

217 months

Monday 27th June 2011
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I can't help thinking that this little car is going to do rather well.

Johnboy Mac

2,666 posts

177 months

Monday 27th June 2011
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E36GUY said:
I can't help thinking that this little car is going to do rather well.
Which? The 43,30 or 11k one

Chicane-UK

3,861 posts

184 months

Monday 27th June 2011
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Now I've seen it all.. unbelievable..

Fetchez la vache

5,568 posts

213 months

Monday 27th June 2011
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Hellbound said:
I just gave it a 10.

Muwhahahaaargh!
That's upped the average to 1.02 you swine!

clonmult

10,529 posts

208 months

Monday 27th June 2011
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Fetchez la vache said:
That's upped the average to 1.02 you swine!
Back down to 1.0.

Its the least pistonheady type of car on the planet. Apart from a Prius.

LuS1fer

41,086 posts

244 months

Monday 27th June 2011
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E36GUY said:
I can't help thinking that this little car is going to do rather well.
It depends how much the buyer can fool him or herself. Among their fashinista friends, they will no doubt be considered social daaahlings but in the real world, people will point and laugh and then they have to find a second-hand buyer.

EDLT

15,421 posts

205 months

Monday 27th June 2011
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The Cygnet is getting some good reviews, actually.

E36GUY

5,906 posts

217 months

Monday 27th June 2011
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LuS1fer said:
It depends how much the buyer can fool him or herself. Among their fashinista friends, they will no doubt be considered social daaahlings but in the real world, people will point and laugh and then they have to find a second-hand buyer.
We on PH might for sure but there are millions of woment out there that wouldn't.