Who knew configuring your own £850,000 supercar could be so stressful? That was the primary question on my mind as I stepped out of Aston Martin’s bespoke ‘configuration pod’, into the late-afternoon sun of an unseasonably warm spring day, and back to reality.
I’m lucky enough to drive and write about exotic cars for my job, and like many car lovers, I’ve spent countless hours tinkering with online configurators, certain of the specification I’d pick if my lottery numbers finally came up. So when Aston Martin invited me to visit its Gaydon headquarters and spend an hour or so designing my perfect Valhalla, I leapt at the opportunity. I thought – delusionally, I now realise – that reeling off the perfect spec would be as quick and easy as reciting the alphabet.
