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The Valkyrie is a near-perfect replica of the real car’s wheel with a brilliant 5-inch touchscreen, and driving with it feels genuinely special, even if a few of its controls feel ordinary for $799.
Aston Martin fans who want the real car’s wheel.
Drivers who value input feel over authenticity.
✓ Near one-to-one replica of the real car’s wheel
✓ 5-inch touchscreen with the real Valkyrie dashboard
✓ Carbon faceplate and Alcantara rim feel special
✕ Mushy paddle shifters feel far too cheap for $799
✕ No rotary switches
✕ Backlit buttons feel like Simagic’s cheapest wheels
Review unit supplied by Simagic at no cost
REVIEW UNIT: Simagic sample
The Simagic Aston Martin Valkyrie wheel is something I did not expect to exist: an officially licensed, near one-to-one replica of the steering wheel from the real Valkyrie road car, built by a company known for value-focused hardware. It looks incredible, its 5-inch touchscreen recreates the real car’s dashboard, and driving with it feels genuinely special. It is also a limited-run wheel with real flaws, and at $799 the biggest one is hard to excuse: the paddle shifters feel like they belong on a much cheaper wheel.
Simagic sent this product to me for review.
The Valkyrie wheel is Simagic’s first officially licensed steering wheel, built with Aston Martin to replicate the wheel of the Valkyrie road car. It measures 320 mm across and is shaped like a rounded square, essentially a yoke, wrapped in Alcantara with a carbon fiber faceplate. It launched on October 14, 2026 at $799, and Simagic describes it as a limited run.
This is not a wheel that happens to carry an Aston Martin badge. The licensing and the development behind it are the product, and that shapes everything about it, from the asking price to the compromises in the controls.
Comparing this wheel with photos of the real Valkyrie road car, the differences are there, but they are very subtle. The shape, the size, the button placement, the extremely subtle painted labels on the switches, the Aston Martin logo, the on/off button, the LED strip, and even the carbon weave are effectively identical to the real thing. The extent of the replication is seriously impressive.
One detail I absolutely love: there are zero Simagic logos on the front of this wheel. Nothing breaks the illusion. Simagic has even implemented the real car’s hidden horn buttons, tucked into the top corners of the wheel, and they actually work.
The carbon fiber on the faceplate deserves a mention of its own. It glistens in the light, and combined with the Aston Martin logo at the center, the wheel looks absolutely peak on the rig.
The large 5-inch touchscreen recreates the exact dashboard the real car uses, which does more for the immersion than any specification can convey. Using the touchscreen, you can cycle through several different dash layouts available through Simagic’s software or through SimHub, so you are not locked into a single display.
Simagic also integrated a mouse pad function into the screen: you can control your PC cursor with your finger directly on the wheel. How often anyone will actually use it is an open question, but it is surprisingly useful in practice because the screen is so responsive. Ten RGB telemetry lights surround the display, and the shift light effects can be configured in the software alongside the dash profiles.
The control layout mirrors the real car. You get 8 RGB backlit buttons, the 2 hidden horn buttons in the top corners, and two self-return levers. The center switches, which visually mimic the ones on the real car, are cleverer than they look: they have 5-way functionality, so you can move them left, right, up, down, and press them, which adds far more functionality than the layout suggests.
Simagic includes transparent stickers so you can label and customize the buttons, and the lighting effects and colors for the buttons and telemetry lights are configurable in the software.
The notable omission is rotary switches. There are none, and that is the main thing I am missing here. On a wheel at this price, with this much technology packed in, a pair of rotaries would have completed the control set.
Here is the problem. Taken as a whole, the inputs have an underwhelming feel. They do not sound or feel like the highest quality, and the backlit buttons in particular feel like the same buttons Simagic uses on its cheapest wheels. There is also some plastic used on the front plate, which stands out against the carbon and Alcantara.
The paddle shifters are the worst of it, and they are wildly disappointing for an $800 product. They are metallic and magnetic, so on paper they should be fine, but in the hand they have a mushy, not very tactile feel at all, like the paddle module that would come on a much cheaper wheel. Simagic does allow you to swap the paddles for more premium sets it sells separately, which compensates to a degree, but on a wheel at this price the standard paddles should not need replacing.
The wheel uses Simagic’s NRG-style quick release, and I have no complaints there. There is a USB input on the wheel, used primarily for firmware updates.
For actually connecting the wheel, you have a few options. On Simagic’s newer Alpha EVO bases, the wheel can use the Air Link system for wireless communication. Older Simagic bases and third-party wheel bases can use the optional MagLink Pro adapter, which connects to your PC with a magnetic coiled cable alongside an external power supply.
One caveat from my own testing: I connected the wheel directly to the PC with a regular USB cable. It worked, but I could not get the telemetry lights to function properly, and I was not sure whether that was a software issue or a lack of power through the cable. It is something to consider when planning how you will run the wheel.
On track, the experience is very good. Everything feels comfortable, all of the buttons, switches, and paddles sit at close reach, and I experienced no notable flex in the rim. The Alcantara grips feel amazing in the hand, although Alcantara is seriously prone to wear and tear over time, so gloves are a sensible idea.
Mixed with the large, responsive, high-resolution screen, the experience is undoubtedly unique. Despite its shortcomings, driving with this wheel feels special, and there is simply no taking that away from it.
At the time of writing, the Valkyrie wheel costs $799 at Simagic, and code OCRACING takes a further 3% off. You can check the current price of the Simagic Aston Martin Valkyrie wheel at Simagic’s store.
I think the price is fair, but borderline. The Aston Martin licensing has its cost, as does the research and development behind such a niche and unique wheel, along with the large touchscreen, the Alcantara wrap, and the carbon faceplate. Even so, $799 sets expectations for the details, and the input feel is where this wheel falls short of them.
There is no doubt this wheel is not for everyone, and that is fine. It is a limited-run wheel made for a specific buyer, one who is willing to make sacrifices: no rotary switches, buttons that feel ordinary, and paddle shifters that really should be better at this price.
For that specific buyer, though, I think Simagic has delivered something genuinely special. A near-perfect replica of one of the most extreme road car steering wheels ever made, with the real dashboard on a touchscreen in front of you, is an experience very little else in sim racing can match. It is not perfect, but there is very little else quite like it, and sometimes that is enough.
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