Hoovey689

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Watch Porsche's 918 Spyder break a sweat while hot weather testing

With five months left until the 2015 Porsche 918 Spyder enters production, Porsche engineers are still putting the hybrid sports coupe through a battery of last-minute tests. To give us new reasons to ogle over the car – as if we needed any more – Porsche has released a short video showing the 918 Spyder undergoing shakedown tests in the hot Nevada desert. And you can't drive through Nevada without visiting Vegas, too, right?

Although there's really nothing new to see in this video, it's still fun to watch as Porsche approaches one million test miles logged on this exciting new high-performance model. One interesting part (at around the 0:37 mark) shows the car taking off under electric power and then transitioning to engine power, which results in a mix of whirs and growls as the 918 Spyder switches from a 127-horsepower electric vehicle to an 887-hp hybrid supercar.


http://www.autoblog.com/2013/06/19/w...weather-testi/

1sWt2GS

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such a beautiful car

Joey-E

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Pretty awesome But is that a Million miles on just one 918 Spyder or a million miles tested on many of them?

PhilipMSPT

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If it's a single 918 going an average of 75 mph (think of stops and such), it would take more than 13,000 days, or 36.5 years non stop, to do one-million miles.

PhilipMSPT

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And then, even if Porsche had 36 units of the 918 running around non-stop 24-hours-a-day in the past year, I wonder why no one has ever seen it.

They may just be talking about engine performance tests, not the actual car as a whole.

blacksc400

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Woo, the car was on Vegas strip!