Porsche 918 Price Leaked
New hybrid supercar will cost 500k euros if it gets the go-ahead
The new Porsche 918 hybrid supercar could cost a cool 500,000 euros (£416k) if it reaches production.
The super-green supercar, which can hit 62mph in 3.2secs and 198mph flat out, has not been officially confirmed for production, but US business website Bloomberg Business Week has claimed that the revelation of the price comes from sources close to the project.
Porsche says the 918 Spyder - whose 500bhp V8 and 218bhp twin electric motors also help it deliver a thoroughly green figure of just 70g/km CO2 - must have more than 1000 firm deposits before it will commit to the car.
The company has so far received '2000 non-binding expressions of interest', however, so things are looking good for the Porsche flagship-in-embryo.
Meanwhile, in case you haven't got half a million to splash on your next Porsche, why not take a look at these?
The only "green" figure that matters dynamically is how it improves the mpg figures throughout the range of driving. The pollution figure is irrelevent to everybody except what some dictat says, but it doesnt actually affect anyone. So why would you care how or when it hit that random figure?
This is the problem with any test, people learn how to pass the test instead of learning how to achieve the original objective behind the test.
And what have the anti-motorsport, green-lobby technology/safety inventors come up with in response? '70s-style impact bumpers, pillars you can't see round, lumpen pedestrian-protecting measures to make cars heavier and less aerodynamically efficient, and above all, the wretched G-Wiz...
This is the problem with any test, people learn how to pass the test instead of learning how to achieve the original objective behind the test.
You only have to look to F1 to provide the perfect example as to how rules are there to be worked within, rather than restrict what you can/cant do
Well done porsche - this might well eclipse my all time fave fantasy must have one day car; the carrera GT

Its not next year - but in 20-30 years they are going to have the vast majority of cars on the roads from normal rep / family cars upto 300+mph cars which put out no CO2. Petrol and Diesel will become a thing of the past and that leaves a heck of a hole in the budget!
The Govt might well have just taxed themselves into an unrecoverable position... what next tax on wind farms???
for the price you could have a 458 (best looking ferrari for a while) and the SLS (best looking merc for a while) and have the best part of 80,000 left over.
To sell for 100k a car has to be either exceptionally comfortable (rolls / bentley) Exceptionally fast (v8 ariel atom)
or exceptionally good looking (aston ferrari)
on top of this the other two must rate at least a "very good"
By 200,000 you have to have at least 2 exceptionals
for 400,000 it must be exceptionally comfortable, exceptionally good looking and exceptionally fast.
I don't doubt the speed and i'm sure they will get the comfort there but it just doesn't have anything like the looks you need for a car in that market.
Remember it has to be £140,000 better than a Pagani Zonda. look at the pictures next to each other and you will suddenly see it as the pimped boxter it is.
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few extra pints then...