GO PRO
Road-going Valkyrie not quite extreme enough for you? You’ll be wanting the AMR Pro then
WORDS CHRIS HARRIS
PHOTOGRAPHY MARK FAGELSON
“THE PRO EFFECTIVELY BUMP STARTS ITSELF EVERY TIME IT GETS GOING”
Let’s be clear: an Aston Martin Vanquish from 2001 has more in common with a Ford Mondeo than the Valkyrie AMR Pro has with the ‘standard’ Valkyrie. The humble Ford repmobile donated its engine (well, two of them stuck together) and many interior trim pieces. The AMR Pro and its namesake share only that V12, plus the headlights.
Side by side this track-only monster does its more civilised relative many aesthetic favours. The Pro is longer, lower, wider and looks like the racing car it should have been. And like all racing cars once the initial shock of how large a shadow it casts is normalised, it quickly becomes just a racing car. No, I’m not saying the Pro looks anything other than stupefyingly sexy, but the road car is on another level completely.