Porsche 918 Spyder
The showstopper. The show’s star. The hit. The one production car that has crushed the Nurburgring lap record with a time of only 6 minutes 57 seconds. The 918 Spyder is a hybrid, a damn fast and efficient hybrid. Am I getting all riled up about it? Guess.
There is nothing not to love about this saliva-creating work of German art other than perhaps its $845,000 USD price tag. This lump of cold, hard cash gets you a 608 horsepower 4.6L V8 that revs to 9,150 rpm. With it, two permanent magnet AC synchronous electric motors, which generate the equivalent of 286 horsepower, combine for a total system output of 887 horsepower.
These specs get the 918 Spyder to 100 km/h in less than 3 seconds, thanks to its AWD configuration, and on to a top speed of 213 mph or 341 km/h. This is only half the story. This supercar will consume only 3.3Ll/100km in a combined cycle, and produce 79 g/km of CO2 emissions
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The showstopper. The show’s star. The hit. The one production car that has crushed the Nurburgring lap record with a time of only 6 minutes 57 seconds. The 918 Spyder is a hybrid, a damn fast and efficient hybrid. Am I getting all riled up about it? Guess.
There is nothing not to love about this saliva-creating work of German art other than perhaps its $845,000 USD price tag. This lump of cold, hard cash gets you a 608 horsepower 4.6L V8 that revs to 9,150 rpm. With it, two permanent magnet AC synchronous electric motors, which generate the equivalent of 286 horsepower, combine for a total system output of 887 horsepower.
These specs get the 918 Spyder to 100 km/h in less than 3 seconds, thanks to its AWD configuration, and on to a top speed of 213 mph or 341 km/h. This is only half the story. This supercar will consume only 3.3Ll/100km in a combined cycle, and produce 79 g/km of CO2 emissions