RE: Porsche 918 Spyder: leaked details

[mug81]

Totally, totally love it- especially in the Martini livery. The consumption figures are utter nonsense I have no doubt- but forgive me if I'm not too fussed..!

[Veeayt]

This is an instant classic in the making.

[George H]

Love it. So much nicer to look at than the latest offerings by McLaren, Pagani and Koenigsegg. Those exhausts are fantastic

[RichB]

Ah yes, thought so. It's a re-post. This was on the Porsche section yesterday.

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

The Porsche chaps are saying that at 1660kg it's rather on the heavy side for an outright sports car.

[otolith]

SimonOcean said:

The relatively high weight probably means that they have fitted sufficiently large capacity batteries to ensure that this car...

... can complete most of the Euro emissions test cycle without turning the engine on, thus giving a totally misleading economy figure?

[jcl]

So the P1 with a KERS system is apparently going to be 350kg lighter? Where has the weight come from on this thing?

[LaurasOtherHalf]

otolith said:

SimonOcean said:

The relatively high weight probably means that they have fitted sufficiently large capacity batteries to ensure that this car...

... can complete most of the Euro emissions test cycle without turning the engine on, thus giving a totally misleading economy figure?

indeed, but who knows why they decided that a supercar needs to be able to do these figures?

something tells me that should you be able to find the necessary 800K euros to buy one the price of petrol & congestion charges may not be of utmost importance

[Carnnoisseur]

Been following the release of these for a while. I didn't think they would be able to improve on the shape of the Carrera GT, unless subtle, but this is awesome.

[Dusty964]

Love it, love all things Porsche, look forward to the racing version at Le Mans

[OzzyR1]

ewilson said:

This is a beautiful example of hat the guys and girls at Porsche can acheive if they dig deep ,should reflect on all the models really

That's decent lurking there chap.

Two posts in one day though, calm down or you'll burn yourself out.

[otolith]

LaurasOtherHalf said:

otolith said:

SimonOcean said:

The relatively high weight probably means that they have fitted sufficiently large capacity batteries to ensure that this car...

... can complete most of the Euro emissions test cycle without turning the engine on, thus giving a totally misleading economy figure?

indeed, but who knows why they decided that a supercar needs to be able to do these figures?

something tells me that should you be able to find the necessary 800K euros to buy one the price of petrol & congestion charges may not be of utmost importance

Greenwash. Owning a Porsche hypercar and being able to smugly claim to be saving the planet. I wonder what the carbon footprint of making the thing is?

[Dusty964]

fatboy69 said:

I like that car a lot.

It should however be sold in colour & one colour only. White with full Martini livery.

Not silver then, like the older Martini Porsches?

(I would take one in either to be fair!)

[donteatpeople]

George H said:

Love it. So much nicer to look at than the latest offerings by McLaren, Pagani

My reaction was the opposite. After seeing the P1 and Huayra this just looks bland. It looks 5 years old already.

[noble12345]

Cool car, shame everything below the rear lights looks like a moulded yogurt pot kit car, still like it overall though, shame they couldnt make the boxster/911 look this good, normal porsche styling needs more of this in it.

Looking at those exhausts i wouldnt want to be sitting in it with the roof off with a slight rear breeze.. cough cough.. be like sitting behind a bus.

[RichB]

noble12345 said:

...shame they couldnt make the boxster </911> look this good...

I would suggest with the 981 they are approaching it.

[Dusty964]

RichB said:

noble12345 said:

...shame they couldnt make the boxster </911> look this good...

I would suggest with the 981 they are approaching it.

That and the fact that if the 911 looked like it it would not be a 911.

[Rumblestripe]

I've just done a little sex wee...

OGMLOL, etc.

How do I turn this thing up to eleven, it only seems to go to ten? Sort it out PH team.

[Wills2]

sisu said:

one of the conumdrums of Porsche ownership. Choose the sports pack you get this even if you don't want it. No clock - no other bits

Wrong. I had the sports module retro fitted without the chrono clock on the 997.2, it will soon be an option on the 991.

[M666 EVO]

Martini livery on a German vehicle?

<shudder>

Needs to be Italian!

[DonkeyApple]

zebedee said:

Why does it auger well for fuel efficient supercars? The EC figure is totally meaningless, is misleading and needs to be scrapped. You'd think Fiat's twin air engine would lead to fuel efficient small hatchbacks, but despite its EC figures from what I have read it does worse than normal engines in real world driving.

Seriously, it is time for an overhaul, especially seeing as the figure is linked to tax.

The greatest thing about this rather beautiful car is that it very, very clearly makes a total and utter mockery of the Eurocrats and their pathetic rules.

I sincerely hope that the Tefals at Porsche pissed themselves laughing over their grotesque and comedic abuse of the rules laid down by a collection of fools.