The electric hybrid system can be a great power-adder. The Honda Insight’s IMA system is like a little turbo.
Awesome! I get a ________ just looking at it.
I’m looking at getting the Mrs a Panamara, waiting till I can find one used.
!!!!!SOLD!!!!!! ;)
No, that’s not right. It’s an immutable law of nature that hybrids must be ugly/goofy-looking.
I want an electric Porsche like I want another ex wife.
Beautiful but totally inpractical car for 99.5% of the public. You have to have more money than God to afford this type of vehicle. Porsches are great if you make $500K a year or perhaps even more.
I don’t believe the mpg...
It can go 16 miles on electric charge... After that you’re burning gas. For a long trip the mpg will be the normal 10-15mpg for a car like this.
“Gone is the flat-6 that powers the mid-engined Boxster and Cayenne (along with the rear-engined 911)”
You should be jailed for referring to a 911 as though it were an “also ran”, you f’idiot.
356’s and 911’s ARE Porsche.
Not Guilty!
Cool.
Now we just need a better economy so someone can afford to buy the car. :)
Something doesn’t add up here.
718 hp, <3300 pounds, all wheel drive, and it takes 3.2 seconds to hit 60?
The 911 turbo weighs 3500, has 500 hp, and claims 3.1 seconds.
The GT2 weighs 3200, is RWD, has 520 hp, and claims 3.2 seconds.
The weight on this 918 must be wrong, because batteries are incredibly heavy, and there are the motors as well. I would guess it’s more like 3800, and the hybrid gear just makes up for its own weight.
In that case, I’d say dump it, and make for a significantly lighter car with the 9200 rpm 500 hp V8. That would make for a very interesting alternative to the twin turbo flat 6.
Wow!!! Need to wipe out the Black Card for that, for sure.