Chase Bierenkoven is a gearhead and writer based in Denver, Colorado. As the family lore goes, Chase's first word was "truck." Cars have been a problem ever since. By 16, Chase was spending his ...

A one-of-a-kind Aston Martin is being offered for sale for the first time ever - but the car is more Oddjob than 007. With an ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the automotive industry and where it is headed next. The Aston Martin Cygnet was already a rather strange car. It ...

Remember the Aston Martin Cygnet? A bizarre rebadge conceived to help bring Aston’s fleet emissions standards down, it was essentially a Toyota iQ with some Aston-ish bits grafted onto the outside and ...

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 ...

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. But then an Aston customer came up ...

The Aston Martin Cygnet is a unicorn. Basically a fancy version of a Toyota iQ (I’m not making this up, it exists), it’s the smallest Aston you’ll ever see. And now, the British automaker shoved a V8 ...

At the time, and from afar, it was hard not to chuckle at Aston’s harebrained solution to its fleet CO2 problem. On paper, it probably looked great. The Toyota iQ was a well-made and well-regarded ...

Jacob is a senior automotive journalist and editor with over a decade of experience in the industry. Before joining CarBuzz in 2023, he served as Chief Editor and Senior Car Reviewer at AutoDeal and ...