When you’re as big a car enthusiast as Jay Leno, you have access to a lot of vehicles that others don’t – of course having his Jay Leno’s Garage online show helps as well. Hanging out at Pebble Beach, Jay Leno took some time out to get a personal tour of the Porsche 918 Spyder [...]
The Porsche 918 Spyder is most definitely guaranteed for production. The electric supercar hybrid was shown to potential customers at a private viewing at Pebble Beach last weekend and it is now rumored that production is expected to total 1,200 units with prices starting around $630,000 a piece. But that’s not all… Insiders at the [...]
Just days prior to its North American debut at the 60th Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, the Porsche 918 Spyder made its driving debut on a closed road in Monterey California. The car was shipped over from Germany by plane after engineers handed the keys of the model to Porsche AG Design Chief Michael Mauer. Check [...]
The Porsche 918 Spyder is making its North American debut today at the 2010 Monterey Classic Car Weekend. That’s pretty nice and everything for everyone that’s in California but it seems like the 918 Spyder is currently having more fun at the Nurburgring. According to rumors and some anonymous documents the Porsche 918 Spyder lapped [...]
After all the waiting, rumors and reports, Porsche today announced that it has officially given the green light to the series development of the Porsche 918 Spyder. “Reflecting the overwhelming response from the public and customers to the Concept Study, the Supervisory Board gave Porsche”s board of Management the mission to develop a production model [...]
The new Porsche 918 Spyder is scheduled to make an appearance at the 2010 Pebble Beach Concours in California and many say that the automaker will that the supercar electric hybrid concept has been given the thumbs up for production. According to a new report by Bloomberg, sources say that Porsche may price the 918 [...]
After making its debut at the 2010 Geneva Motor Show, the Porsche 918 Spyder will make its second real-world appearance at the 2010 Pebble Beach Concours in California next month. Rumors suggest that Porsche has given the 918 Spyder the green light for production and is planning a Pebble Beach launch to make the announcement. [...]
During most of the 2010 24-hour race at the Nurburgring-Nordschleife, it seemed that the 2010 Porsche 911 GT3 R Hybrid would win the race. However, Porsche team members faced some technical problems a few hours from the end, giving the BMW M3 GT2 a chance to lead and eventually win the race. Even after that [...]
Porsche says that it has almost 900 potential buyers for its new 918 Spyder, a plug-in hybrid open-top supercar with a mid-mounted V8. Porsche will probably decide to build the model once 1,000 potential customers have pledged interest, Porsche”s development chief, Wolfgang Duerheimer, said in an interview at the 2010 Beijing Motor Show. “I”m confident [...]
Yes, we can’t get enough of the new Porsche 918 Spyder Concept – so when we found a new video and bunch of new images of the hot plug-in supercar, we felt compelled to share them with you. As reported yesterday, Porsche executives are working with dealers to see how many customers will be interested [...]
