Aston Martin Cygnet swans around in black and white launch editions

Aston Martin's peculiar-looking city runabout, the Cygnet, will be available in two, uber-exclusive special editions when it goes on sale later this year.

The Cygnet Launch Edition Black and Cygnet Launch Edition White will have one-off paint finishes and interior trims designed to help you put one over on the Cygnet-driving Joneses -- as if the standard car wasn't exclusive enough.

The Cygnet Black is the ebony to the White's ivory; the Mila Kunis to the White's Natalie Portman. It's finished in a one-off 'Magic Black' paint, which has a metallic finish and a specially developed deep-sea green effect. Inside, Aston Martin's fitted dark chrome accents, black Aston Martin wings and black full-grain leather seats with diamond-pattern perforations. Swanky!

The White, meanwhile, takes the milky way. It's finished in 'Snow White' paint, sports 'White Diamond' turned alloy wheels, pearl-white leather seats and more satin chrome highlights than you can shake a shammy at. Sounds a bit Essex dancefloor, to be honest.

Both Cygnet launch editions will come with a range of exclusive accessories, including a bespoke Bill Amberg five-piece luggage set -- a glove-box bag, a removable door-pocket bag, a holdall, a garment bag and a collapsible tote bag. No fanny packs are included, which is an absolute travesty if you ask us.

We've started warming to the Cygnet. It's still weird-looking, and it's still a heavily modified Toyota iQ, and it'll still cost in the region of £31,000 when production begins in April, but something tells us it'll turn more heads than its Vantage big brother.

Click through the photo gallery above to see the car in greater detail, then check out the Cygnet in our video below, along with our video reviews of the Aston Martin Rapide, DBS and V12 Vantage.