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Performance
As you’d expect for a top-of-the-range Porsche, the 918 Spyder’s performance is simply blistering. This car is far from all show and no go.
Power comes from a mid-mounted, racecar-derived 4.6-litre, 608hp V8 teamed with two electric motors, with the rear producing the equivalent of 154hp and the front – driving just the front wheels up to 146mph – producing 127hp.
The combined output of the system is somewhere in the region of 887hp.
A seven-speed PDK gearbox drives power to the rear wheels, meaning high-speed drifting is very possible.
0-62 comes up in around 2.8 seconds, with a top speed somewhere north of 211mph.
Being a plug-in hybrid, the 918 Spyder can do all this and run silently in electric-only mode for a quoted range of 18 miles.
