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The Supercar Out To Trigger A Paradigm Shift
The
Porsche 918 Spyder has top-mounted exhaust pipes just like the original 1966
Batmobile. How bitchin' is that?
Not nearly as fascinating as what lies beneath the coupe's carbon fiber skin.
The all-new supercar, arriving late next year, is the most complex vehicle
Porsche has ever designed. The hybrid gasoline-electric exotic features a race-bred 4.6-liter V8 supplemented by two electric motors drawing power from a liquid-cooled lithium-ion battery pack. It boots up like a computer, glides combustion-free like something out of a science-fiction movie and then ignites its fuel-fed engine to blast in excess of 200 mph.
The 918 Spyder's existence is as significant as the
Le Mans Porsche 917 and as technologically groundbreaking as the 1986 Porsche 959 - it suggests that hybrid supercars will not only prevail, they will dominate.
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