The 918 Spyder would have a price tag of $months and which would make it the most expensive car ever to be sold by Porsche, something that the company had confirmed only recently. Talking now about that Porsche had some changes in mind and they plan to go out with some mid engine to compete with the Ferrari 458 Italia supercar and the McLaren MP4-12 C. The change of plans is the time to wait for approval of Volkswagen.
Mathias Muller, Porsche boss said, "we plan to extend the range." We have an idea to another model of butterfly. We think over the 911 but less of the 918 Spyder. We have ideas on style and design, which we will continue to develop in the coming months. We also assess the economic side and then decide. »
The new model if built would come in the roadster as a cut version. Price of the car would be pegged at $275,000. To obtain a performance enhancement by lowering the weight of the car may be primarily built with reinforced carbon fiber plastic.
To have the car to compete with the Ferrari, there was is would need for the car to have at least 550 to 600 HP under the hood. It is as the 458 Italia has 570 HP performance figures and 398 lb - ft of torque. The engine on the Italia is 4,499 address cc V8 engine and the car MP4-12 has 3 800 engine cc twin turbo, which gives 592 hp and torque of ft 443 lb. Porsche has the 3 600 cm3 620 water cooled hp twin turbo flat six mounted on his Porsche 911 RS WG2.
