Porsche Tweets Undisguised 918 Spyder

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by TTAC Staff

The final production version of the Porsche 918 Spyder is set to be shown off at this weekend’s Pebble Beach Concours D’Elegance, but Porsche tweeted a photograph of their hybrid supercar ahead of this weekend’s events. The 918 was also seen running undisguised at the Goodwood Festival of Speed earlier this summer.

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  • Patriotic_wish Patriotic_wish on Aug 15, 2013

    Given what I'm about to write, I glad for the anonymity afforded by a pseudonym...my first reaction when I saw the picture was "Oh...Acura finally released the new NSX." I know...hell is warm and features high humidity but many will suggest I go there anyway.

    • Hubcap Hubcap on Aug 15, 2013

      I could only hope the NSX looked this good. There are a few videos of the car (I don't know if what Acura's showing is a mule or close to the production body, but I do know its completely forgettable) running around and compared to the last NSX it's a whole bucketful of not good (looks wise).

  • Jimbob457 Jimbob457 on Aug 15, 2013

    That car does not appear to have a rear window.

  • CJinSD CJinSD on Aug 15, 2013

    I'm not sure I get the point of making it look like the front half of the body is emerging from the back half of the body, but I guess otherwise it would just look like a Boxster. It seems like Porsche's hands are tied styling wise at this point. There will be no more pleasant surprises like in the '70s. They'll just keep grafting their face onto whatever marketing tells them there is a niche for.

    • Porschespeed Porschespeed on Aug 16, 2013

      There's old men who need to retire still in positions of power in P-Town... You're right, even the Pepper and Pana suffer from the 'runny eggs' face-look that was forced on the company, during the years the stubborn desire of a powerful (but tiny) minority to keep the uberbeetle alive, almost killed the whole enterprise. Again. Still. The 911 must die.

  • Blppt Blppt on Aug 17, 2013

    I usually cant stand anything coming out of Stuttgart (the legacy of the 911 generally all look like VW bugs on steroids to me), but this is one fine-lookin' car. Actually thats not true---I thought the 959 was the best looking modern Porsche I'd ever seen (at least in terms of 911 knock-offs, anyways), though pretty much everyone else I've talked to says its one of the uglier Porsches ever. I'm odd that way.

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