Designed by one of the most celebrated F1 designers, Adrian Newey, and powered by an 11,500rpm V12 with over 1,176 horsepower, the Aston Valkyrie truly is one-of-a-kind. The Valkyrie Spider, with just 85 examples heading for production, is even rarer. So it’s strange that a serial exotic car collector like real estate tycoon Manny Khoshbin with a net worth of $250 million would give one up.
But because of high servicing costs, that’s exactly what happened. The flip side is that Utah car collector Brad Bonham, popularly known as Supercar Ron, can instead claim the first Valkyrie Spider to be delivered in the US.
The price tag on an Aston Martin Valkyrie Spider at launch was said to be around $3 million, with values having risen since. That could be one of the reasons why Khoshbin sold his car after painstakingly speccing it in its unique black-and-gold paint scheme. The other, as Khoshbin explained in a video, is the sky-high cost of servicing a Valkyrie and question marks over its overall reliability. Estimates put Valkyrie service costs at over $100,000 in the first year, and nearly half a million dollars at the end of the first three years of ownership.
That said, it’s a small price to pay to own one of the most technologically advanced cars on the road. For Supercar Ron, who replaces a Pagani Huayra Roadster Tempesta with the Aston Martin Valkyrie, it should prove to be a worthy successor.
