"It's not a road car, it's a race car." You might think that a Formula One World Drivers Champion would find a hypercar a little on the tame side. Perhaps that's a little hyperbolic, but there's no denying that a successful career spent in the world's fastest racing cars must render a full-weight passenger car, on road-legal tires no less, a few …
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Creating the 2018 Goodwood Festival of Speed Sculpture
At its base the fifty-two meter sculpture is just 12cm across. Its widest section contains six points holding six Porsches. Yes, real Porsches. You can see through the clear windows and into the interiors, and the underpinnings are visible from below. These are not hollow fiberglass display pieces, but artfully suspended real vehicles. Designed by …
Continue to the full articleTop 5 Features of the 918 Spyder with Baby Driver’s Ansel Elgort
Ansel Elgort's "Baby" from the Edgar Wright film Baby Driver is the classic imperturbable action hero. Much like Steve McQueen's Frank Bullitt, Baby is a man of extremely few words. Baby Driver is also a wizard behind the wheel. In the film, Baby flings a variety of cars through Atlanta, ranging from a Subaru Impreza to a Dodge Challenger Hellcat. …
Continue to the full articleRacing on the X and Y Axis – 918 Spyder Vs. Plane.
Races between planes and cars are nothing new. Red Bull pulled a similar stunt back in 2011 with a Porsche Carrera Convertible. A 997 GT3 faced off against a 747 back in 2009. Another 918 Spyder faced off against a Biplane stunt plane back in November of last year. Top Gear pitted a Bugatti Veryon against a Eurofighter Typhoon several years ago in …
Continue to the full articleWhat It’s Like To Photograph The Porsche 918 Spyder At 217 MPH
Remember the video we showed you a few weeks back of the Porsche 918 Spyder traveling at 217 mph through the Australian Outback? In addition to the vidoegraphers on site to produce the spot, Porsche hired automotive photographer Easton Chang to document the event from inside the car and above. We tracked him down to get his thoughts on …
Continue to the full article4 Reasons The Porsche 918 Spyder Uses A Top Pipe Exhaust Design
Porsche's new 918 Spyder is an out-and-out performer, a perfectionist company's vision of a no-compromises-made supercar. Ultimately, Porsche's aim was to build an impressive machine, and it's an understatement to say that they have succeeded. They didn't cut corners, they couldn't have. Everything about this car was carefully calculated before it …
Continue to the full articlePorsche 918 Drag Races A McLaren P1 And A Motorcycle To 200 Miles Per Hour
As I was watching this video, I couldn't help but feel slightly overcome by the steady marching wave of ever advancing technology in cars. Then I almost fainted in sheer terror at the thought of riding a motorcycle at 194 miles per hour. Autocar pits a Porsche 918 against a McLaren P1, and then throws in a Ducati Panigale Superleggera just for …
Continue to the full articleDid You Hear That? Neither Did Anyone Else. Porsche 918 Drives On Electric Power Through London
We've heard the 918 on the track. We've heard it switching from electric to normal. We've heard it during launch control. However, this is the first time we've heard it (or maybe not so much heard it, but rather watched it) as it drives on electric power only through the streets of London. Watch and learn as Gordon Robertson explains the 918's …
Continue to the full articleTake A Hot Lap In The Porsche 918 Spyder With Patrick Long
Last week we showed you what launch control in the Porsche 918 spyder looks and sounds like. This week's video features Porsche factory driver Patrick Long on a hot lap around the Circuit of the Americas. Watch as the Porsche 918 exits pit lane under all-electric mode, accelerates under sport hybrid mode, and uses the hot-lap button on the back …
Continue to the full articlePorsche 918 Gets Historic Martini Racing Livery as Option
It wasn't that long ago that we first saw some of Porsche's most historic liveries make a comeback (at least for promotional purposes) on the all new 2013 Porsche Porsche Boxster. Then, shortly after that, we saw the Porsche 918 getting driven around the Nurburgring in a black and white version of the famous Martini Livery. Well, earlier this …
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