Though Toyota’s pugnacious little Aygo X looks all cutting-edge and funky, it is in fact, in conception, rather old school. Get past the zigzag styling and bold two-tone paint job, and what you have before you is a rather traditional city car or supermini, with the kind of spec you’d have got a generation or so ago.
There’s the five-speed manual gearbox. Some painted steel interior panels. A window at the back that pops out. A rear hatch that is actually no more than an opening window, albeit smartly finished in opaque black. Under the bonnet we find a three-cylinder, one litre engine – with not even a mild hybrid boost, let alone electric propulsion. There’s room for four only, and that’s at a push, and there’s not much room in the boot.
