What is this Aston Martin Doing?

[Marty Funkhouser]

Went past this Aston today covered in gizmos and had a lot of tech stuff inside. Presumably some sort of test car / prototype? Anyone care to enlighten me?

Ps I was in the passenger seat taking the photo.

[turbobloke]

Factory road testing a mule?

[Hoofy]

New self-charging hybrid?

[simon_harris]

Dynamos on the wheels powering the lights?

[DeejRC]

Boudicca spec

[GroundEffect]

Likely road load data acquisition.

[Gigamoons]

He's put his wheel spacers on the wrong way round.

[The Wookie]

It's been a while since I was near that sort of kit but look like wheel torque transducers perhaps?

Maybe a brake or powertrain vibration issue that they're trying to track down or capturing real world brake friction characterisation

[s94wht]

It's remote control. That's the aerial you can see

[Krikkit]

The Wookie said:

It's been a while since I was near that sort of kit but look like wheel torque transducers perhaps?

Maybe a brake or powertrain vibration issue that they're trying to track down or capturing real world brake friction characterisation

Could this be an EV or hybrid powertrain and they're doing wheel torque calibration?

[The Wookie]

Krikkit said:

Could this be an EV or hybrid powertrain and they're doing wheel torque calibration?

I doubt it to be honest, you don’t really need to do much analysis with e-motors, it’s pretty trivial to calculate output torque within any margin that matters and you don’t really need to measure it at the wheels.

[Dogwatch]

As with F1 it’s a retention system in case the wheel wants to go off by itself due to a pothole or some such.

[swanseaboydan]

Delivering pizzas ?

[0ddball]

What's it doing?

About 65mph I'd say.

[Doofus]

They are wheel force sensors and telemetry devices. Probably from A-Tech Instruments.