Aston Martin Valhalla Breaks the Internet Over Unfortunate Door ShadowsMotorBiscuitRahaan MazumderFri, September 25, 2026 at 3:30 PM UTCAdd us on GoogleWhen engineering a seven-figure hypercar, automotive designers spend thousands of hours refining drag coefficients, carbon fiber weaves, and downforce balance in wind tunnels. But apparently, nobody in Gaydon thought to check what happens when the sun hits the dihedral doors from above.During their deep-dive track and road review of the Aston Martin Valhalla, Thomas and James of the popular automotive channel Throttle House stumbled into an engineering oversight so hilarious it immediately hijacked the entire narrative around the car.In a still captured directly from the video review that quickly went viral across X, the hosts are seen seated inside the cockpit with the dihedral doors propped open. The sunlight bouncing through the curved door glass and windshield casts two unmistakable, perfectly placed phallic silhouettes directly over the driver and passenger.AdvertisementAdvertisementThe internet, naturally, had a field day turning the £1,000,000 hybrid missile into an instant meme."Discerning Automotive Journalists"Rather than cutting around the visual gag or reshooting the sequence, the duo tackled the absurdity with deadpan British humor. Sitting in the cabin with the shadows planted squarely over their faces, Thomas addressed the camera directly:"Okay, listen, we too have noticed that the shadows of the Valhalla's doors have placed the silhouette of two perfectly anatomically correct phalluses right over our faces," he acknowledged with total seriousness."But we request kindly that you hold your laughter until the end and continue to take us seriously, as we would like to be considered discerning automotive journalists. Thank you".AdvertisementAdvertisementMaintaining that serious journalistic tone proved virtually impossible for the rest of the film. Later in the video, while breaking down the car's mid-engine road manners against rivals like the Lamborghini Revuelto, Thomas couldn't resist gesturing to the glass: "Consider that for a moment as I point at you through my penis shadow".The "Wang Screen" VerdictBy the closing credits, the hosts admitted the accidental optical illusion completely derailed post-production.Aston Martin ValhallaAston Martin Valhalla | Aston Martin"Speaking of memorable, how about those windscreen penises… more like wang screen," they laughed, revealing behind-the-scenes reality: "We laughed for like 26 minutes straight in the edit when we saw those".AdvertisementAdvertisementOn paper, the Aston Martin Valhalla is an intimidating piece of kit: 1,064 horsepower, an AMG-sourced flat-plane crank twin-turbo V8 paired with three electric motors, and Formula 1-derived pushrod suspension. But while Aston Martin built a track weapon meant to challenge the world's most elite exotics, the internet will forever remember the Valhalla as the hypercar with the million-dollar "wang screen."