Article from CAR
New Porsche president and chief executive officer Matthias Müller has confirmed that the new 918 Spyder hybrid supercar is on track for a 2013 delivery. Speaking to CAR at the 2010 Paris motor show, Müller said the engineering programme was on time and that the 918 would stay faithful to the concept car revealed in March this year.

‘We are doing [engineering] concept work on the 918 at the moment and will finish at the end of 2010,’ said Müller. ‘Then we will have all the facts, figures and prices by early 2011.’

When will the Porsche 918 Spyder go on sale?
‘We will start selling the car then, with a market introduction in 2013,’ said Müller. CAR sources in Germany suggest the 918 is likely to top €650,000, or around £560,000 in today's money. The 918 carries on where the Carrera GT left off. It’s a halo supercar equipped for duty in these carbon-crunched times; with three electric motors backing up its petrol V8, it is at once both raucously fast and whisperingly quiet when on EV mode.

‘This car can lap the Nurburgring faster than the Carrera GT,’ R&D boss Wolfgang Durheimer told us earlier this year. ‘At the same time, it averages 90mpg and 70g/km of CO2 when driven gently.’

Let’s hope they can pull it off in production spec. The Porsche 918 Spyder (2013) could be the first supercar without the guilt factor.

Source [CAR]

 

Whoa.. I like it a lot!

 

Will the production version come with rocket launchers as well?

 

Yes!!

Ram Air Induction apparently. And a micro-wave oven to heat up your "HOTPOCKET"

 

How much!!!!!! mind you it does look very special.

 

And the asking price just goes up and up and up.

Wait a minute if the price is in fact €650,000, or £560,000 isnt that around $900,000 or is my calculator broken.

No Thanks

 

As much as I love it, I know a lot of people who would buy one but are turned away by the price.

 

that price is insane...but at least we all have 4 years to save up or play the lotto.

 

Honestly, upon further reflection, I think it's a completely fvcking stupid car. "A supercar that gets really great gas mileage when driven slowly"? That's just fvcking retarded in my book. Gimme a CGT any day over this Frankencar.

 

They are asking too much for this car, I am not sure it will end up as good as the Carrera GT, If I was in the market for a car in this caliber I'd be looking at the new Jaguar C-75 which looks so much better; this just looks like a Carrera GT but more modernized whilst the Jaguar looks like a XJ220 meets XK, very sleek and different.