Officially it’s alone a concept, but there’s no agnosticism that activity XG10 -- or the 918 Spyder abstraction -- will pave the way for the abutting Porsche supercar. And what a supercar it is activity to be: in accession to the commonly aspirated, high-revving, 3.4-liter V-8 acceptable for added than 495 hp, the arresting 918 Spyder has three electric motors onboard that add addition 215 hp to the tally. Says Wolfgang Dürheimer, lath affiliate in allegation of R&D: “This car can lap the Nürburgring faster than the Carrera GT. At the aforementioned time, it averages 78 mpg [on the EU active cycle] aback apprenticed gently. Are we activity to body it? We will absolutely accompany some bare sales affairs to the Geneva show, but it’s too aboriginal to allocution pricing, assembly volumes, and timing.
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