Our original design was to have no windscreen wiper on the Aston Martin Valkyrie. When it’s moving, the aerodynamics of the car, coupled with the angle of the windscreen, mean the rain runs right off. But sometimes a road car has to stop at traffic lights, leaving us with no other route but to add a wiper. This meant we had to build a blade that would work in the most extreme conditions. At barely imaginable speeds. Bending around the hardly-believable curvature of the Aston Martin Valkyrie’s windscreen.

Without in any way spoiling its sublime silhouette. Yet again, we had a problem that had no previous solution in the automotive industry. No windscreen with that level of curvature had ever required a wiper. Our search took us to the US space program. Only a supplier for NASA could provide the from-another-planet performance we were looking for. A single blade. Every single one of its 594g weighted, moulded, scythed and sculpted into a feat of impossible beauty. With a torsion bar in the centre keeping it in contact with the windscreen at all times. Including when the car breaches 200 kph. And the wind rips up beyond 300 kph. How do we know? Because we took it all the way to Austria, to test it in the world’s fastest wind tunnel, the Rail Tec Arsenal. Just to be sure.