Aston Martin’s Sim Racing Rig Costs as Much as a New BMW M3

We get pleasure from sitting down for some sim racing motion as a lot as anybody. A few of us at Motor1 even have our personal racing cockpits, decked out for comfy hours-long classes on PC or gaming consoles. None are as snazzy as this carbon-fiber Aston Martin cockpit, however then once more, we did not drop $75,000 to construct our rigs.

That is the minimal worth you will pay to place this Aston Martin AMR-C01-R racing cockpit in your storage. For comparability, you may have a Toyota Supra with a set of devoted observe tires and cash to spare. You can purchase a brand new Subaru BRZ, a bunch of go-fast components, and a pleasant trailer to tow it. Or you may simply purchase a brand new Porsche 718 Cayman earlier than they go all-electric. Even a BMW M3 is comparable, with its $76,700 beginning worth. So yeah, this cockpit is loopy costly, particularly for one which has no movement functionality. It simply sits there.

Photograph by: Curv Racing Simulators

Admittedly, it seems to be actually good. Designed and constructed by Curv Racing Simulators, it is fabricated from carbon fiber (after all) and options “a revised seating place impressed by the Aston Martin Valkyrie.” It additionally wears an Aston Martin grille and has a financial institution of controls, together with a change panel and a cool steering wheel. Curv would not specify if the wheel provides any drive suggestions, however the seat is a minimum of adjustable to raised accommodate taller avid gamers.

The cockpit comes absolutely outfitted for motion, although you will not discover a triple monitor setup. It makes use of a single 49-inch curved monitor with a 240Hz refresh price and 1ms response time, which suggests the graphics ought to look fairly crisp. That is additional helped by an NVIDIA RTX 5090 video card, which is at the moment the must-have tech for the PC crowd. That card alone sells for round $3,000, if you could find one. Nonetheless, it is a drop within the bucket in comparison with this rig’s sticker worth.

If this all appears acquainted, the AMR-C01-R is an improve to Curv’s earlier Aston Martin cockpit launched in 2020. That one bought out, so there are consumers keen to shell out massive cash for a complicated Aston-branded setup. Solely 50 of the fashions shall be constructed, configurable in a variety of inside and exterior colours on Curv’s web site. Preliminary deliveries will start in April.