The Grand Tour: Porsche 918 vs Nissan Patrol
We knew that the Porsche 918 Spyder would be shown as final production here in Frankfurt After all, it goes into production next Wednesday, 18 September 9, 18 of the German way of expressing Geddit dates and we knew about it that would look and specifications, but there was still a surprise quite a large and extremely memorable.
The 918 became the first production car to crack seven minutes around the Nürburgring Nordschleife, posting a best of 6 minutes 57 sec You can see the video below Play Sound and convinced a hybrid didnt need to sound like Not a Hoover when SA over flat hose crank V8 naturally aspirated howl behind the shoulders of the driver.
He was on road tires The car's chief engineer Frank-Stefan Walliser told us they had a pair of cars they were just regular prototypes ready for finals in production They pushed to the track on the road, the the team put new tires and drivers, three in turn headed they were told not to risk an accident, whether the only hand was that it was a flying lap, not a standing start .
Ultimately was Marc Lieb has been 6 57 times, although Walter Rohrl clocked a time under seven minutes too Actually they have a sequence in a four-second window, which must say something about the predictability of behavior of the car he certainly saved Top Gear when we drove a prototype, without much skill, in dangerous conditions.
The 918 Spyder appeared in the living room look great in fact, though in a more discreet way that McLaren P1 or laferrari Curves are simple, but the details are Among them, the side air intakes full depth as slashes in the body and headlights to four. Pinprick
It is not a great car, but it is very slightly bigger car now takes all major dimensions are a hair of the Carrera GT, Walliser said, although the team found more than 918 drivers and space passengers, and instead for a hybrid battery, an electric motor unit KERS before, another of those at the rear, a PDK instead of a manual transmission, and the steering-wheel drive however, it doesn t mention that the Carrera GT were two other rolls and the pushrod suspension.
The resulting figures of all that densely packed technology go like this V8 4 6 liter makes 608bhp or 132bhp per liter, and can rev to 9150 and is assisted by an electric motor with 149bhp, which leads through September PDK gear to the rear wheels there is an electric motor in the front of 129bhp in so that the 887bhp art And of course, four-wheel drive, although the front engine is decoupled at high speed to stop revving, but the traction speed is not a problem.
Outside this period of recovery, it also claims the right line numbers 0-62 ballistic completely around 2 8 sec, 0-125 7 7, and a top speed of 216 mph.
The electric motor helps as a sports car for two reasons: first, the traction wheel drive Secondly, it fills in the couple of another hole you have with such a NA engine frantically listening without electrical help, they could have used Turbos and probably lose the sound and throttle response.
And of course, because he Sá once charged, it may, at the twist of a mode switch, plug-in hybrid to about 20 miles without running the engine at all helpful when you do not want wake everyone you slip out of the city on the way to your early Sunday morning explosion.
The plug-in function is the 918 can fool official fuel figures because he does a lot of testing in pure-electric effect, revenues frankly fantastical 85mpg And because electricity doesn t count for CO2 numbers, the 918 qualifies only 79g km course you will not see anything like that in a good performance driving because you will soon have exhausted all your electric power system and fully pressed on gasoline, but all plug-in cars get the same leg in official tests, so you can blame t Porsche to take advantage.
You might be guessed that 918 examples in limited edition and Chief Engineering Porsche Wolfgang Hatz told there won t be other derivatives They aren t yet sold all but states that Walliser 'once people drive, they will get the urge to buy his line is it'll sell in a few months from now, in fact, he adds Hatz personally sold two to 15 minutes from the official unveiling .
He is interested about 720,500 at the exchange rate today for light version Weissach pack that broke the ring record and that's the one everyone will, of course, even if the standard car is to approximately 100k less.
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