The Aston Martin Valkyrie is turning out to be a terrible investment. If you had purchased the car with the aim of flipping it, chances are you won’t even recover your investment. Well-specced Valkyries are selling below sticker, and the recent example is chassis no. SCF4KRB44NGS70090, which was sold at the RM Sotheby’s Dubai auction for $2.6 million.
This left-hand-drive example was built to EU specifications and was delivered to Japan. It is finished in Lunar White with red graphics and has a gloss carbon fibre roof. The hypercar rides on Satin Black magnesium wheels and red brake calipers.
This Valkyrie has a polished carbon engine plenum, Inconel exhaust with black finishers, and a gloss carbon engine cover. Inside, it gets racing-style seats trimmed in Pure Black Deboss Alcantara with red stitching, Twin Satin carbon fibre roof inserts, 6-point race harnesses, and anodised switchgear in red. Together, the options on this car alone cost around $152,000, and it has just 52 miles on the odometer.
The Aston Martin Valkyrie was designed by F1 car designer Adrian Newey. The hypercar is powered by a 6.5-liter V12 hybrid that produces 1140 hp, enough to take it from 0-60 mph in 2.5 seconds. It’s an engineering and design masterpiece, producing 2 tonnes of downforce and can achieve 3.5 Gs in the corners. While that’s great on a racetrack, it’s highly compromised on public roads.
Source: RM Sotheby’s
I was at the auction, pretty much every lot available went under or barely made the low estimate.
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Left hand Drive. There is no use for them.
All the videos I’ve seen of it, show it to be so noisy on the inside that noise cancelling headphones are mandatory.
Duh ! US and Europe are left hand drive ! Much preferable ! Just an auction generally showing declining values overall .