That little green speck you are seeing in the lead photo is an Aston Martin Cygnet. A rebadged Scion iQ that was actually sold to the public, it might be the most off-putting rebadge since a Chevy Cavalier became a Cadillac Cimarron. But this green monster’s flared wheels are a tip to something incredible: a Cygnet owner actually got AM’s “Q” division (the section of the company that builds custom requests) to combine the Cygnet with a Vantage S by any means necessary. It works. It sounds properly snotty. It’s a Scion iQ with a 430 horsepower V8, a seven-speed gearbox, and the potential to reach well past 160 MPH if they find someone with big enough gear to drive it that fast. Maybe they can stow said “gear” in the passenger seat. And this is one of the more “normal” vehicles on display.
It’s that time of year when Lord March’s driveway becomes an automotive playground with zero cares thrown to type, capability, or even driver assistance this year. The Goodwood Festival of Speed has kicked off, and Italian s0und maestro 19Bozzy92 is parked alongside the road capturing the noises from all sorts of machines, ranging from a Dodge Viper drift car to the Toyota “A90” pre-production Supra, to the absolutely psychotic RX3-faced Mazda RX7 of Mad Mike. And we are still not scraping the surface. When the opening scene is a guy flying a f**king jetpack up the road like it’s no big deal, that’s when you just sit down and enjoy the show. Just make sure you have the volume cranked up for this one!
