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Some days I feel like I must have gone to sleep and woken in a parallel universe - perhaps the popular TV series, Fringe, is a documentary on life - a fictional metaphor, rather than the science fantasy we first thought?

We live in an age where Aston Martin make a cutesy city car, Lotus focus more on fashion than engineering and Porsche plan a top-of-the-range electric powered supercar. If we'd painted this vision of the future as recently as 5 years ago, you'd have laughed hysterically and questioned our sanity and yet here we are at the end of 2010 describing exactly such a reality.

News of KTM's upgraded X-Bow appeared back in September, so we're pleased to hear KTM are on target for its introduction in early 2011. The X-Bow has long been one of our favourite sports cars, but we've worried about its long-term viability given the high cost of producing its exotic carbon-fibre frame.

You are probably aware by now that Aston Martin have confirmed their intentions to put their new Cygnet city car into production, with first deliveries due in late 2011.

The Aston Martin Cygnet city car is based on Toyota's diminutive iQ, but re-engineered and substantially re-trimmed to meet the standards of luxury befitting an Aston Martin. “It is time to think differently...” says Aston Martin CEO Dr Ulrich Bez, “Whatever we do, we do right. If we do performance, we do performance; we don’t downsize or compromise our sports cars.