Playing racing sims with a racing wheel is great, but pairing that with a proper racing cockpit takes immersion to a whole new level. It makes all those hours you spend grinding in iRacing, Automobilista, or Beam NG feel much more worthwhile. If you want to give your racing games a big dollop of luxury, though, you may want to play them on the Aston Martin x Curv AMR-C01-R instead.
An all-in-one sim racing setup, it gives you a cockpit with a full gaming system and driving controls in tow, so you just hop in and boot up to your favorite racing game. Even better, the whole cockpit is based on Aston Martin racing cars, recreating the lines and proportions of the outfit’s track racers.
The Aston Martin x Curv AMR-C01-R has a full carbon fiber monocoque with dramatic swooping lines and geometric curves more commonly found in actual racing car bodies than your standard sim racing cockpit. Heck, it even has a racing grille based on those found in actual Aston Martin race cars, giving this thing a true racing aesthetic. Seriously, if you slap doors and wheels on this thing, you can probably take it to tracks and it won’t look too out of place. Suffice to say, they wanted to make this thing look like a real racer. The body, by the way, is cut in carbon fiber, so this thing boasts premium materials to go with the fancy design.
It has a racing seat that, the outfit claims, is based on the seating position of the Aston Martin Valkyrie, so you’re meant to feel like you’re in the cockpit of an actual speed demon inside. The seat is supposedly adjustable, too, allowing you to enjoy a comfortable amount of leg room to keep you relaxed through hours of stressful racing across video games’ most challenging tracks.
The Aston Martin x Curv AMR-C01-R has a built-in racing wheel styled like the ones you see on Formula race cars. That means, it comes with integrated paddle shift and clutch, along with nine rotary dials and 12 push buttons scattered all over its surface. In the center of the steering wheel is a full-color LCD that displays a variety of relevant stats, so you can have all important information right in front of you. According to the outfit, they pair the wheel with a high-torque steering motor with precision feedback, although they’re not saying which make and model it’s built off on. It also gets an electronically-controlled sliding pedal box with 200mm of travel, all powered by an electric actuator inside a carbon fiber enclosure.
No word on the exact specs of the gaming PC they bundled with this thing, but it’s supposedly running on a GTX 5090 card, so we’re hoping it’s running top-of-the-line components everywhere else. Your game visuals are shown on a 49-inch Samsung G95C ultrawide curved monitor, which boasts dual QHD resolution, a 240Hz refresh rate, and a 1ms response time. There’s no motion system, by the way, so this is just a static cockpit, albeit one that’s undoubtedly premium all across the specs sheet.
Only 50 units of the Aston Martin x Curv AMR-C01-R will be made. Price is set at around $75,000.
