Hope you all enjoy the video. As always I'll let that do the talking, but i will leave you with an important article from Porsche highlighting the past, present, and future importance of the 918 Spyder. Big thank you to Brian Mann for entrusting me with this beauty, as it is truly a rare and astonishing creation.

The Production of the 918 Spyder may have ended in 2015 with only 918 units ever built, however its footprint is much larger than you imagine. According to Porsche: It continues to influence their sports cars and supercars of today.

"Hybrid and fully electric engines are now fixtures across the company’s range. In the case of the latter, of course, there’s the Taycan models, which share plenty of the DNA of the 918 Spyder. You can see it in the remarkable electrified acceleration and perfectly balanced weight distribution, for example. The current 718 Spyder, meanwhile, not only shares the use of the Spyder name but also the top down, naturally aspirated thrills of its supercar predecessor. The 918 Spyder also has a direct influence on the 963 LMDh prototype, the all-new Porsche racing car that is participating in the FIA World Endurance Championship and North American IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championships from 2023. When Stefan Moser, the head engineer responsible for the Porsche 963 powertrain, and his team began thinking about the engine for the project back in 2020, one leapt out at them. It means that the Porsche 963 you will see roaring around the world’s great racetracks this year is powered by a version of the 4.6-litre engine fitted in the 918 Spyder. The big difference is that the original highly efficient, naturally aspirated engine has been augmented by two turbochargers – although it retains 80 per cent of the components used in the 918 Spyder unit. The fact that such a powerful hybrid V8 had been used successfully before gave the 963 team the confidence that its new hybrid racecar could also harness the qualities of such a game changing engine. We shall end, as we began, with the thoughts of a top motoring writer.
Future Top Gear presenter Chris Harris was left in awe of its abilities.

“In race mode, with all the ESP switched off, the car is juggling torque from two motors and a petrol engine,” Harris said at the time, “and yet somehow the engineers have tuned all of these motors, four-wheel steering and four-wheel drive to allow you to drift. Above all else, the 918 is the most complicated and most impressive piece of car calibration ever achieved.” Harris

There’s no doubt about it – the astonishing 918 Spyder changed what people thought a sports car could do, forever."

(Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG)


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