#Porsche 918 spyder price full#

Hybrid mode uses both power sources to maximise efficiency, while Sport and race prioritise performance. If you need more, simply push the pedal past a detent to bring the petrol engine into play.

There’s E-power, which is a purely electric, and can still get the 918 to 62mph in 6.1sec. A rotary controller a bit like Ferrari’s manettino helps you switch between modes. With those twin exhaust pipes exiting above your head the V8 makes a right racket, although the engine can come and go from the party in town driving without introducing any massive shunt. Unless you’ve been born without lugs, then yes. Is it obvious when the petrol engine kicks in? Traction is excellent and the handling balance, aided by four-wheel steering that mimics the stability of a longer wheelbase, makes this a surprisingly friendly car to push hard. As well as adding top end power, you can really feel the electric motor working when accelerating from, say, 60mph in seventh gear. The electric steering is very good, far more satisfying than the 911’s (which engineers say will improve), the ride quality is excellent and the carbon ceramic brakes, despite a lingering lack of feel due to the brake regeneration effect, are massively effective and far less wooden than the Panamera Hybrid’s. Ignoring the hybrid part for a moment, the 918 is a great sports car in its own right. Does all this hybrid stuff mean it drives like an arcade game?ĭefinitely not. For a near-900bhp car, that’s not to be sniffed at.

#Porsche 918 spyder price full#

Unless every journey is short enough to make the most of a full battery charge, you can forget the 91mpg claimed economy, but the 918 can do 18 miles purely on electric power at speeds up to 93mph, and on a long distance run from Stuttgart to the launch in Spain, where the petrol engine would have been in regular use, the car achieved more than 30mpg. No, it also helps the 918 return some very un-supercar-like economy figures. So the hybrid bit is purely there to make power? Porsche says the hybrid drivetrain is worth 5sec of that ’Ring time. The 918 also holds the current Nordschleife production car record, which stands at 6min 57sec (although McLaren claims its P1 laps it in ‘less than seven minutes’ without giving a precise time).

To that, add 277bhp of electric power operating on both front and rear axles for a top speed beyond 211mph and 0-62mph in 2.6sec. Derived from the motor in Porsche RS Spyder racer, the 4.6-litre V8 delivers 608bhp to the rear wheels and revs to 9150rpm.