Aston Martin has joined forces with Parisian fashion authority colette to produce the strictly limited edition; “Cygnet & colette” luxury city car.

To celebrate the collaboration, 14 examples of the Cygnet & colette city car will be hand-crafted via the company’s ultimate personalisation service;

Aston Martin Works Tailored offers limitless options personalised precisely to customer specification through the marque’s world famous Works Service facility.

Rolls-Royce will join the electric car club at the Geneva Motor Show, but like many of its luxury counterparts, it seems uncertain that electrified vehicles are the future.

It will show a one-off electric version of its $300,000 Phantom sedan at the show before sending the vehicle on a global test tour.

Rolls-Royce, one of the world’s most iconic — and expensive — automakers, described the model, known as the 102EX, as a “test bed” to gather research for future decisions about alternative drive trains.

Aston Martin’s new luxury city car Cygnet is making its global debut at Harrods in Knightsbridge, the world’s most prestigious department store.

The Toyota iQ-based Cygnet will go into production in 2011 at the company’s global headquarters in Gaydon and is expected to cost from £30,000.

Cygnet will be available to view at Harrods until Saturday 18th December with the car on sale now through Aston Martin’s European dealership network.

Aston Martin has today confirmed that the Cygnet will go into production in 2011 at the company’s Gaydon headquarters in Warwickshire.

Initially shown as a concept earlier this year, the the Toyota iQ-based Cygnet is described by its manufacturer as an ‘Aston Martin tailor fit for the city’.

Aston Martin’s CEO Ulrich Bez said “The Cygnet is designed to support our sports cars by providing a greater degree of freedom in the urban context; it is a very special car, a premium but compact package with heart, soul and personality.”

Aston Martin hasn’t revealed many new details about its baby Cygnet, which is on display at the 2010 Geneva Auto Show.

The Cygnet is a production car based on the Toyota iQ with a Vantage front end and luxury interior, to be sold for $45,000 to $75,000 to buyers who want an expensive city car.

The company said that it expects the car will go on sale in 2011, but there were no plans to sell it in the United States.

Luxury car-maker Aston Martin has unveiled its first luxury small city car, or what it calls its “luxury commuter concept” – the Cygnet.

The move represents a radical departure for the luxury car manufacturer, most celebrated for the super sleek sports cars driven by James Bond.

The concept car, developed in partnership with Toyota, is heavily based on Toyota’s much-lauded small car, the iQ.