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By Tim Pitt Who remembers the Aston Martin Cygnet? Launched in 2011, it was a Toyota iQ city car with ideas several miles above its station. My uncle actually bought one, which I drove for our Retro Road Test back in 2018. Apart from a white Cygnet that’s always parked in Belgravia, I can’t recall seeing another since. The reason for mentioning Aston Martin’s ugly duckling is that, once again, I find myself accused of driving a ‘posh Toyota’. This time, the car in question is the Lexus LBX, a new hybrid SUV based on the Toyota Yaris Cross – and the smallest Lexus to date. Will it soar like a s…

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