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Saving your pennies for a Porsche 918 Spyder? You may want to go ahead and take out a loan to get the down payment on the table, for the hybrid hypercar is nearly sold out.
Automotive News reports production of the 918 will draw to a close in July 2015, while planned production is sold out through early April at the latest, according to Porsche Cars North America vice president of marketing, Andre Oosthuizen.
Regarding how many have been made thus far, Oosthuizen declined to say more than that it was doing well for itself. He added that 30 of the $847,945 spyders were delivered to customers around the world — each bestowing Porsche a deposit of $200,000 for the opportunity to own one — thus far.
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More proof that hybrids are sales champions.
Kidding!
Or rather they would be if they weren’t simply compliance cars. It makes you wonder what kind of loss Porsche must be taking on this thing.
This isn’t a “compliance car” – VW already has plenty of hybrids to cover that base.
It’s a hybrid for the same reason the Ferrari and McLaren hypercars are – for performance.
Welcome to the internet. Please keep an eye out for sarcasm. Enjoy your stay.
Aren’t these the Porsches that spontaneously combust and burn to a cinder?
I’ve read about one burning down to charcoal. But with unlimited funds the 918 is seemingly perfect.
That’s why the panel gaps are so large: to allow for some expansion due to the heat of air friction.
When I worked at The Great Blue Banking Satan, all managers had at least a Vice President title. That made for thousands of VPs with no real authority.
Gorgeous car but Holy Schnikies. W.T.F. Is going on with the panel gaps around the bumper and headlights, that looks terrible.
Geschwindigkeit Löcher!
I think that might be the front of the hood shut line.
Loan for the downpayment? They do 80/20s on cars now??
Give me a Boxster GTS for fun, Panamera GTS for a DD, and a Cayenne Turbo for the wife/tow car, and I still have plenty of coin left over to campaign a 996 GT3 for several seasons of amateur racing.
I know for 918 buyers it’s not an either/or scenario (they already have/do the above) but that’s how my bourgeois mind thinks.
The typical 918 owner must have, what, 50 cars, a plane, and two yachts?
I recently read on another site that the average Bugatti Veyron owner has 84 cars so….yeah, I’d say at least 50 for a Porsche 918 buyer is pretty believable.
That is so many cars. It’s not like there is a Corolla or Civic in those 84 cars either.
Blown away by that quote, I looked it up. It was an exaggeration by the CEO to differentiate Bentley owners who have a few cars, and Bugatti owners who have massive collections. Still, probably not that much of an exaggeration.
Had to LOL at the article’s comment: “Oh NOW I get why we don’t tax those people properly.” How dare we deprive them!
I just calculated that the payback period based on the fuel savings of the 918 vs a new 911 GT3 is only 250 years at 15,000 miles per year. No wonder it is selling so well.