Aston Martin has in its catalog one of the few hyperdeporters with which you can quietly walk its 1,155 hp through the low -emission areas of the country thanks to the ECO label that provides you with an electric motor.
As they comment on Motorpasionthe nuance is that it is a car that costs more than three million euros, so for most mortals and motor lovers it becomes an unattainable dream. For some who could pay their Price, the dream has become a nightmare that was about to cost his life.
A jewel with surprise
As published by the German newspaper Handelsblatta wealthy German motor fan paid three million euros in 2022 for one of the 150 units of Aston Martin Valkyrie that the British firm manufactured. In the words of its owner, and after traveling only 441 kilometers with him “I’m fed up with Aston Martin.”
The problems of this owner with the Valkyrie began from the first kilometers, when a Electrical failure notice. It is not the first time that this model records that ruling that, in fact, has been plagued by technical problems since even before sale.
In case the fault of a freshly released car was little misfortune, the car suffered damage during transport to the workshop that was going to check that breakdown.
Once repaired, the car returned to a failure in the Rocket Locker system, which is responsible for maintaining the constant pressure in the hydraulic system of the suspension of the car, preventing it from sinking when it remains inactive for a long time. The user affirms that the system failed and the car simply sank Staying without suspension. Again, the user had no choice but to regret the three million that the car had cost him, ensuring that Valkyrie had more defects “than all my other cars together.”
The drop that filled the glass and almost ends with his life
However, the final ruling arrived in 2024, when the owner was about to be rammed by an ambulance that it was at full speed and with the lit mermaids: the noise generated by the huge engine its 6.5 -liter atmospheric engine developed by Cosworth inside the cabin prevented him from hearing the ambulance siren.
As the owner of the Valkyrie reported, “only thanks to the rapid reaction and skill at the wheel of the ambulance driver a fatal accident was avoided.”
The acoustic insulation system of the Aston Martin’s hyperdeport It is practically non -existent, so the manufactured has devised a headphone system that connects with external microphones. These headphones do the double function of isolating the rumble of the 12 -cylinder monster that is installed after the granting, and reproduces the sounds that the outer microphones capture. The system simply did not work and the owner of the Valkyrie did not warn the presence of the ambulance until literally had it.
Given such a succession of failures, Aston Martin’s refusal to recognize them as such and try to put a solution, the millionaire chose to demand the brand and request the revocation of the purchase, so that the brand should Buy the car again. Given the request of the owner’s lawyer, the brand just claimed that the Valkyrie are very complex vehicles that require special service and a very careful handling, indicating that it had been delivered as an “impeccable vehicle.”
From Aston Martin they indicated that, in the event that the owner could return the car, he was They would be discounted about 64,000 euros as compensation for the 441 km he had traveled. That is about 145 euros for each kilometer traveled.
Legal jurisdiction problems
The last problem that the owner of the Valkyrie has encountered is not mechanical, but administrative. His lawyer has initiated his legal claim by filing a lawsuit in a Aquothers Court, in Germany. However, from Aston Martin they claim that the correct form is to do it through a court in the United Kingdom, since it was in that country where the purchase was made and this is stipulated by one of the clauses of the purchase contract.
The owner’s lawyer, on the other hand, argues that as a private European consumer, the consumption regulations allow him to pursue the demand in his place of residence, regardless of the country in which the purchase of the car was made. At the moment, and after almost Three years chaining technical failuresthe hypercoche dreamed by many continues to parked in the garage of its owner that does not conduct it from its incident with the ambulance. You have to be careful what you want.
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