The holy trinity, which includes the McLaren
P1, the Ferrari Laferrari and the Porsche 918 Spyder. Costing millions of
dollars to own. These cars are the future available right now, and the Porsche
918 is regarded as the best of the best. Jeremy Clarkson's show The grand tour
showed that the 918 is the fastest around the race track and proved that
Porsche's engineering is the best.
So how exactly did they pull this off?
Porsche has a reputation of doing what's impossible, sticking to something that
others might run from. Porsche did this with the 911 and now they have done
same with the 918. The 918 has a 4.8 litre V8 and two electric motors producing
a combined power of 875 Bhp and it weighs 1650 kgs, in both the cases the
numbers are the worst among the three, still the Porsche manages to be the
fastest among them.
The 918 is four when drive and has rear
wheel steering which helps the car to be agile in the corners. It is the first
production car in the world to lap the nurburgringring in less than 7 min, 6
minutes and 57 seconds to be precise, no other production car has ever managed
to do that. And even after all this the Porsche can still just run on its
electric motors and hit a top speed of 100 mph. It is supposed to be a race car
but it has shown the world that the hyper cars are not necessarily harmful to
the environment. It just gives out 90 gm/km of carbon dioxide, which is less
than a family hatchback and can give nearly 90 miles to the gallon. These are
unimaginable figures.
Porsche hasn't just made a new, fast,
expensive car it has showed us how the future would look like with cars getting
electric power plants. It showed us that if used properly we can have fun as
well as save the environment. What it has given us is HOPE.
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