The Aston Martin Valkyrie comes off as a world-class hypercar, but it hasn’t been without its problems either. The race-going version, for example, was postponed a while back because the of class merges happening within the World Endurance Championship. And, while Aston claimed that development of the road car was still ongoing, a global pandemic struck and Ex-CEO Andy Palmer was replaced with the Ex-CEO of Mercedes-AMG, Tobias Moers. The company did get a huge influx of cash when Canadian billionaire Lawrence Stroll invested $657 million, but Aston Martin has still be struggling – even with the DBX finally going into production. Now, it looks like the Aston Martin Valkyrie is in a lot of trouble, and things aren’t looking very good. A tough decision needs to be made.

The Aston Martin Valkyrie Could Be Delayed or Worse

A new report from Italian outlet Formula Passion claims that the Valkyrie is suffering from some reliability issues.

The first option is to delay arrival of the Aston Martin Valkyrie as the company extends its research and development phase – a pretty rough blow to the 150 people that have already put their name on paper to stake claim to one. The second option is, arguably, even worse. Aston could make the Valkyrie a track-only car. This move that would allow Aston to recoup its development costs but will likely cause serious issues with those 150 folks expecting a car they can take on the road once per year or however often people with $3.25 million cars take them out and about.

It’s hard to believe most of them would be interested in settling for a track-only Valkyrie. People with millions of dollars to burn aren’t don’t take kindly to the idea of settling. However, this isn’t the worst possible scenario, either.

Notice how I mentioned that Aston could “recoup” costs? Well, there’s a good reason for that specific phrase. Hopefully it won’t come to that, but if it does, you can bet there will be a lot of rich customers that won’t be very happy. And, that’s putting it nicely. Hopefully, it doesn’t come to that, and the best possible option is another delay, but at this point – with Aston Martin’s financial situation – just about anything could happen. It’s all a rumor for now, so take it with a grain of salt, but there is a chance that the Valkyrie will never make it to production.