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Am I first at posting this on PH as I could find anything via the PH search box:
http://www.autoblog.com/2010/03/01/porsche-918-spy...
Looks nice - but I personally do not like hybrids.
Phil
TVR - De Tomaso - BMW
http://www.autoblog.com/2010/03/01/porsche-918-spy...
Looks nice - but I personally do not like hybrids.
Phil
TVR - De Tomaso - BMW
Luv it forget all this hybrid rubbish ( check any process far enough back and then add up the emissions )this is a great looking car. Porsche should produce it on the RS ethos uncomplicated,light and fast.All the great sports car manufacturers should forget pc hybrids I am sure their customers don't want them
It's a really good looking car...and comes with the hybrid technology...sports car and environmental friendy...even better...
just think that the consumption that has been refered is just a little bit optimistic (3l/100km)... wonder in what conditions will that Porsche have that kind of consumption!!!
According to the reactions that i have read in other forum,s also think that with a normal powertrain this 918 would be a sure success!!!
just think that the consumption that has been refered is just a little bit optimistic (3l/100km)... wonder in what conditions will that Porsche have that kind of consumption!!!
According to the reactions that i have read in other forum,s also think that with a normal powertrain this 918 would be a sure success!!!
Vetteran said:
Luv it forget all this hybrid rubbish ( check any process far enough back and then add up the emissions )this is a great looking car. Porsche should produce it on the RS ethos uncomplicated,light and fast.All the great sports car manufacturers should forget pc hybrids I am sure their customers don't want them
The IC engine is less efficient than a pellet burning stove. Any move forward is a positive one IMO.As a customer since the late 1980s, I would have hoped for better propulsion tech by 2010. Everything else has surpassed expectations. Computing power/cost/efficiency for one example.
I would certainly put more faith in what the Germans are doing for the future of transport, than what British customers want. Brits could lead the industry if they looked forward rather than back. They wont though. You've got Gordan Murray designing very clever small quiet clean vehicles, that apparently nobody in image conscious Britain wants. Despite having the worse roads in Europe.
Edited by oilspill on Thursday 25th March 09:42
The whole hybrid / climate change / CO2 shtick is politician inspired b
ks, and anyone who believes it is just another sucker. 
Having said that it can't do any harm to explore what alternative technologies can do, and the idea of independent acceleration on all four wheels and storing energy from braking has to be interesting. Also getting car weight down, and what weight there is really low down, can only make driving more enjoyable, ergo not a bad thing. Though my personal view, however much I enjoy playing Scalextric, is that if a sports car doesn't have some internal combustion going on, I'm not interested. And the manufacturers know that.
I am a building designer, and while I do not buy into fashionable politics in any way, the construction of well insulated houses which capture all or most of the energy they require and are therefore supremely comfortable with minimal or zero (if you are adventurous enough) utility bills is both very exciting and totally practicable. Independence, particularly from the jerks who run this country, but also from the oil and gas producing countries, is a great idea, though I have no doubt that once all our houses and cars are efficient enough, they will just raise higher taxes on them. We are not really in a free country any more.
What the 918 does conclusively, however, is prove that, at last, Porsche can design a car. It is beautiful beautiful thing, and it would be interesting to know who actually came up with it.
ks, and anyone who believes it is just another sucker. Having said that it can't do any harm to explore what alternative technologies can do, and the idea of independent acceleration on all four wheels and storing energy from braking has to be interesting. Also getting car weight down, and what weight there is really low down, can only make driving more enjoyable, ergo not a bad thing. Though my personal view, however much I enjoy playing Scalextric, is that if a sports car doesn't have some internal combustion going on, I'm not interested. And the manufacturers know that.
I am a building designer, and while I do not buy into fashionable politics in any way, the construction of well insulated houses which capture all or most of the energy they require and are therefore supremely comfortable with minimal or zero (if you are adventurous enough) utility bills is both very exciting and totally practicable. Independence, particularly from the jerks who run this country, but also from the oil and gas producing countries, is a great idea, though I have no doubt that once all our houses and cars are efficient enough, they will just raise higher taxes on them. We are not really in a free country any more.
What the 918 does conclusively, however, is prove that, at last, Porsche can design a car. It is beautiful beautiful thing, and it would be interesting to know who actually came up with it.
Edited by cardigankid on Friday 2nd April 13:09
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