Aston Martin Valkyrie vs The Real World

The Valkyrie is Aston Martin’s F1 car for the road. Or is it?

It was conceived when Aston was purely a Formula 1 sponsor, and designed with a little help from Red Bull and its soon-to-depart design genius Adrian Newey (who’s actually joining Aston’s own F1 team. Small world!). And while the Valkyrie has numberplates and headlights and a windscreen wiper, it’s about as single-minded a hypercar as there has ever been.

Can you really use it on the road? Or is that marketing fluff?

To find out, we set Top Gear Magazine’s Contributing Editor Jethro Bovingdon the onerous task of spending days and days in a £2.8m Valkyrie…

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00:00 Intro
01:22 Drive Part 1
04:12 Stats
05:39 Walkaround
07:24 Interior
09:07 Drive Part 2
17:32 Conclusion

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