Most of us agonize over whether the grocery run is worth burning a gallon of gas. Joe Macari just did his in a $3 million hypercar. The well-known collector rolled his Aston Martin Valkyrie through London, parked it curbside, and strolled back out clutching a handful of avocados like it was a Tuesday — which, to be fair, it probably was. Someone filmed the whole thing, and it’s the kind of effortless flex that makes the rest of us equal parts envious and delighted.
This is not a car you casually chuck the shopping bags into. The Valkyrie is a Formula 1 car with a license plate, the sort of machine that stops traffic anywhere it shows its face. Watching it inch down a congested London street next to ordinary commuters, it looked like it had been beamed in from a decade that hasn’t happened yet. That contrast is exactly why the clip is so deliciously surreal.
A Hypercar Doing the Most Mundane Job on Earth
When Macari sauntered back to the car, the mission was obvious: a few avocados, the Valkyrie crawling through traffic, the whole scene looking like a glitch in the simulation. Anyone who knows what this thing can actually do understands that piloting it through London is the automotive equivalent of walking a thoroughbred racehorse to the mailbox.
Why the Valkyrie Is Gloriously Absurd
And it’s not expensive just to be expensive. The powertrain is a flex of pure engineering ego. A Cosworth-built 6.5-liter V12 screams out 1,001 horsepower on its own, then a Rimac-developed electric motor piles on another 160. Add it up and you’ve got 1,160 horsepower in a car built to feel like an F1 racer you can register for the road.
The rest of the numbers are equally unhinged. Top speed is rated at 220 mph, and zero to 62 mph takes a scarcely believable 2.6 seconds. There are three drive modes — Urban, Sport, and Track — and yes, the mere existence of an “Urban” mode is the technicality that makes an avocado run like this possible. Pricing starts around $3 million, assuming you’re even on the list.
London Keeps Serving Up Scenes Like This
The city has a habit of dumping six- and seven-figure machinery onto the same crowded streets as everyone else, and some sightings spiral into full-blown internet mysteries — the pink McLaren parked outside a hotel that had people guessing for ages, or the $330,000 Rolls-Royce that infamously got towed. Each one feeds the same obsession and proves the same point: London’s car culture is deep, real, and constantly putting on a show exactly like this.
Why a Bag of Avocados Says Everything
There’s something almost perfect about a $3 million hypercar running the world’s most trivial errand. It torches the pretense. Cars like the Valkyrie usually get treated as museum pieces — trailered to events, kept under covers, barely driven. Macari just drove his to the shop and grabbed some produce. Honestly? That might be the most enviable flex of all.
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