Sir Stirling & Lady Moss with Susie's new Aston Martin Cygnet
Sir Stirling Moss has stumped up for an Aston Martin Cygnet as a birthday present for his wife, Lady Susie. It was presented at the RAC Club.
It’s much easier to have a good life when you’ve got the support of an exceptional other half. Just ask Sir Stirling Moss, who’s just surprised ‘er indoors – Susie, Lady Moss – with an Aston Martin Cygnet for her birthday.
The planning for the surprise gift from Motorsport’s greatest living icon to the love of his life took six months of planning between Sir Stirling, Aston Martin and the RAC Club.
The RAC Club because it was to Pall Mall that Sir Stirling was taking Lady Moss for a private, celebratory dinner for Susie’s birthday.
Waiting in the RAC Club’s Rotunda was an Aston Martin Cygnet, resplendent in British Racing Green (of course) complete with an elegant black leather interior with coarse silver stitching. All very Stirling.
The Cygnet sports one of Sir Stirling’s personalised number – SM 7 – which we last saw on his 3-wheel scooter, but he obviously feels the Cygnet worthy of the number, unlike Lady Susie’s last car – a SMART.
Sir Stirling, the old softie, said:
My greatest partner in everything that I do, Susie is an amazing person and frankly the best wife a man could have. Since seeing a pre-production Cygnet in January I knew that it was the perfect car for Susie; a proper little piece of British luxury and perfect for our life in town.
And the man from Aston Marin smiled.
Christina Ria Hadleigh says
Here is the bit where this crappy mag ‘disses’ the smart fortwo…
The Cygnet sports one of Sir Stirling’s personalised number – SM 7 – which we last saw on his 3-wheel scooter, but he obviously feels the Cygnet worthy of the number, unlike Lady Susie’s last car – a SMART.
Oblivious says
You’ve managed to turn a really nice feelgood story in to a pointless, name-calling rant. The story doesn’t say the writer doesn’t think the Smart didn’t deserve the plate, it’s assuming Sir Stirling didn’t as it was never on the car. And nowhere on Cars UK can I find your precious Smart car (a money losing venture for Mercedes – which says it all) ‘dissed’ as anything other than overpriced, which it is.
Which is exactly what all those other crappy mags like Auto Express, Autocar, Top Gear and anyone else who knows cars says too. But you obviously know better.
Christina Ria Hadleigh says
You wrote;
Which is exactly what all those other crappy mags like Auto Express, Autocar, Top Gear and anyone else who knows cars says too
So YOU say, but please remember, Mercedes is also only a subsidiary company to it’s ‘mother’ company.. They don’t actually own smart, they just build it…
Oblivious says
Er, no. That is what THEY say, and Mercedes don’t build the smart for their ‘mother’ company (by which I assume you mean Daimler-Benz), they are the car division of Daimler-Benz, who own smart.
Christina Ria Hadleigh says
Like you say, they are just the car division not the mother company….
Christina Ria Hadleigh says
Who gives a damn what this magazine thinks about the smart fortwo city coupé or whether it’s worthy of some pretentious number plate of a scooter, or who the owner of this replica smart is, Aston Martin will never sell as many cygnets as smart have done in the last 12 years…so there!!..
And all the time A/M have been procrastinating over their embarrassing copy-cat design of so many little cars that followed the smart fortwo..
Like Jeremy Clarkson, I’m also NOT impressed…
Oblivious says
Wow!! That’s some chip on your shoulder!
Where does anyone make a comment in this story against the Smart? And the Cygnet isn’t an Aston Martin attempt to make a small car, it’s a Toyota. And if Sir Stirling Moss wants a personalised plate he has every right to have one, especially as he’s had it so long they weren’t even fashionable when he got it and the man is a complete legend too!
Facts have a habit of making an argument so much more persuasive, don’t you think?
Percy says
I wonder if Stirling Moss paid for his Cygnet?