Aston Martin Valkyrie hypercar power figures leaked

The Aston Martin Valkyrie hypercar will forever change the way high-performance cars are viewed – and now we know how much power it will generate.

Hint: a lot.

Not only will the Valkyrie potentially race at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 2020 and likely break the outright Nurburgring lap record set by a Porsche race car, it also looks insane… oh, and it will be powered by the world’s most powerful naturally-aspirated street-legal engine.

That last morsel of news shook up the internet today because as soon as Cosworth -- the motorsport company building the Valkyrie's 6.5-litre V12 engine -- tweeted the news of its 1130hp output (which equates to just over 830kW of mumbo), it deleted the tweet.

Luckily for car enthusiasts such as ourselves, screenshots of the astonishing tweet were taken.

The hastily-deleted tweet read: “We’re famous for breaking records and our latest engine, the Aston Martin Valkyrie 6.5-litre V12, will be the world’s most powerful naturally aspirated road engine with 1130bhp.”

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The Fezza is powered by the world’s most potent nat-atmo production engine at present, pumping out a very handy 588kW, but when Aston Martin Valkyrie deliveries begin in 2019 the Prancing Horse's power output will be ground into the dust. That said, Ferrari will probably cook up something in response.

It's not yet clear whether the Valkyrie's 831kW figure is just for the engine or a combination of the V12 and the British hypercar's electric motor, but either way you’d need 16 Fiat 500s with their 51kW 1.2-litre engines (making it one of the least powerful cars available in Australia) to match the output of the Aston Martin Valkyrie.

Spin it another way and for the price of a £2.5 million ($A4.4 million) Aston Martin Valkyrie you could buy a total of 97 brand-new Renault Megane RS 280 hot hatches ($44,990). The only problem is, all Aston Martin Valkyrie hypercars are already sold out.

That's no surprise give it will be more powerful than a modern day F1 car and is expected to be faster than any other vehicle on many race tracks. Only 150 of the hypercars will be built, along with 25 race-only versions dubbed the Aston Martin Valkyrie AMR Pro.

Some of the interesting things about the Aston Martin Valkyrie include the fact that its two occupants will almost have to lie down in the car like an F1 driver, not sit. There are also no side mirrors, just tiny cameras, and there’s even a barrier that pops up between driver and passenger during high-G cornering to stop flailing limbs knocking the stuffing out of the driver.

It may have four wheels and two seats, sort of, but the Aston Martin Valkyrie is less of a car and more of a high-speed land missile.

The cockpit is flanked by a pair of massive venturi tunnels that run the length of the vehicle and make it look as though it's missing a huge chunk of engineering underneath. The exhaust is used to increase downforce as it channels over the rear spoiler and a kerb weight of around 1000kg is expected.

Naturally, the Aston Martin Valkyrie also features gull-wing doors to allow entry and exit, which looks challenging to say the least.