A Glimpse Into The Future, Today - Aston Martin Valkyrie

Aston Martin has released a bunch of photos of the Valkyrie - and it looks like the future. The Valkyrie now looks closer to (about 95 per cent according to Miles Nurnberger,  Creative Director of Exterior Design at Aston Martin) what the lucky 150 owners will drive beginning 2019. We don't any idea of what the hypercar's engine will look/sound like till now, but the details revealed today are themselves very interesting.

First things first - just look at this thing!

The Aston Martin Valkyrie has been designed to be a road-going F1 car. Marek Reichman, Aston Martin's Chief Creative Officer, has used his and his team's design expertise to make the car as beautiful as possible while F1 guru (and Red Bull chief technical officer) Adrian Newey works his aerodynamic design magic all around. 

To keep the car from becoming a series of wings on wheels, most of the aerodynamic elements have been kept to the underside of the car. 

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The huge gap under the car and around the bottom of the cabin creates two Venturi tunnels. These develop ground-effects to keep the car sticking to the road - and also funnel air to the huge rear diffuser for even more downforce. 

The mid-mounted 6.5-litre, naturally aspirated Cosworth V12 is fed through a scoop on the roof of the car like F1/LMP1 cars.

When looking at the Valkyrie from a top rear angle, you see that the bodywork has been scooped out behind the front wheels for better aerodynamic downforce over the front axle. These scoops also let the occupants see how the front wishbones work!

There is also a fixed wing just behind the twin exhaust ports, which one of the few visible aerodynamic devices on the surface of the car. Some rumours suggest that the track-spec Valkyrie will feature a visibly large spoiler.

All this complexity is also accompanied by simplicity for the sake of saving weight. The headlights have the bare essential elements with no aesthetic panels. The high-mounted stop lamp is a 5.5mm thick, 9.5mm long strip of LED at the edge of the shark fin on the roof.

The 'badge' on the nose is a chemically etched aluminium piece which is just 70 microns thick - that is 30 per cent thinner than a human hair.

This is the first time that we have had a look at the interior of the Aston Martin Valkyrie. The doors open up in a 'Surya Namaskar' pose, revealing someone's imagination of what the offering to the gods of tasteful minimalism might look like.

Highlights include slightly raised floor with pads which are the 'seats'.

A large centrally placed infotainment screen, a busy-looking steering wheel with almost all the controls of the car and a large multi-display screen, two side-screens which display the live feed from the rear-view cameras (yes, there are no rear view mirrors) and a strap of leather on the dashboard which could be a cup holder.

One curious detail is that we can't see where Aston Martin has placed the airbags for the occupants. Four-point harnesses are offered as standard.