New images from Aston Martin’s Instagram show that its Valkyrie hypercar is getting pretty close to complete, ahead of road testing next year.
Following a teaser clip of the car’s Cosworth V12 engine last month, we’ve now got an official look at what seems to be the final design.
The three photographs show off the car’s shape in an unusual blue-on-blue fading paint job. More importantly, they also reveal the car’s interior.
Unsurprisingly, it’s dripping with carbon fiber. Aston Martin has a design goal of just 2,200lb for the Valkyrie’s weight, so extensive use of light materials is to be expected. Even so, there appears to be very little garnish in the cabin, just acres of naked carbon.
There’s certainly no fat in the seats. They appear to be single-piece carbon fiber items, with padding only where the human body will touch it. Each has a six-point safety harness, and appear to be rather reclined. This is because the Valkyrie will adopt an F1-style seating position, with the driver practically supine and their feet well ahead of them.
You’ll also spot the triple-screen layout. Chances are that the outside two screens — one is off to the left of the image — will act as mirrors, relaying images from cameras; the external shots don’t show any door or wing mirrors, so Valkyrie is likely to use a camera system. Along with the center infotainment screen, the driver also gets a display within the steering wheel that replaces a traditional instrument binnacle.
Aston Martin will build no more than 150 Valkyries and, yes, it’s already sold all of them, at $3.2m each. There’ll also be 25 even more extreme track versions, going by the name Valkyrie AMR Pro.
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