Porsche 918 Spyder Walkaround

European Editor Paul Horrell goes over the many details of this prototype of the Porsche 918 Spyder.

Transcript

00:00 Well, this isn't exactly beautiful, but it is very special.

00:03 It's the first ever rolling chassis prototype

00:07 of Porsche's new limited-edition hypercar, the 918 Spyder.

00:11 It shares almost nothing with any current or previous Porsche,

00:16 and it's a full plug-in hybrid.

00:18 Under there is a 4.6-litre, 570 horsepower,

00:24 9,000 rpm gasoline V8.

00:28 In tandem with an electric motor,

00:30 that feeds through a seven-speed PDK transmission,

00:33 which is under there, and there's a battery under there.

00:36 And at the front of the car, there's a further electric motor.

00:40 Total system power of all that lot is 770 horsepower.

00:44 Porsche reckons that the top speed will be well over 200 miles an hour,

00:49 and it'll get to 60 miles an hour in quite a lot under three seconds.

00:53 So it's not a tree-hugging hybrid, it's a performance hybrid in a big way.

00:58 (PORSCHE 918 SPYDER)

01:00 This car is only seven weeks old.

01:06 It's been running 24 hours a day since it was first built in December.

01:11 And as you can see from the inside,

01:13 data acquisition and calibration of the 55 ECUs in the car

01:18 has been a priority at the moment.