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Is there anything that can surprise us in today’s world? We’ve been to the moon. We’ve constructed satellites that show us the right path to take to reach our destination, right down to the foot. We harvest alternative energy from the sun, from wind, and from water. We are merely one click away from having millions of answers. At all times. Thus, once again the question: Is there anything that can surprise us in today’s world? Yes. The answer is us. Nothing makes us hold our breath like a utopia becoming a reality. Milestones. We can do it by understanding each day to be a future that we ourselves contribute to.
A future that enables us to do things that alter the way the world thinks. We can do it by creating moments in which something that never existed before now completely revolutionizes the way we live. More than 60 years ago, Ferry Porsche did no less than this. What was it he said? “At the start, I took a look around, but couldn’t find the car I dreamt of. So, I decided to build it myself.” It became a classic, a milestone. Even then it was ahead of its time. And today? Today, too, we are placing ourselves in a head-to head race with the future.
For the future changes, yielding new demands on alternatives and radical new ideas for the high performance car of the future. The future requires progress and new technologies for milestones in performance and milestones in efficiency. After all, the future also needs to be fun. It needs to offer fun while driving. The 918 Spyder has arrived in the future, leaving behind a new reality that is available today. A milestone.
The 918 Spyder features all the attributes of a perfect racing car: performance, efficiency, lightness, and purity. And yet another very special quality: History. And that begins on a sheet of white paper. For that is where the 918 Spyder was recreated from the ground up. Every detail was questioned, every single screw, the concept as a whole. So to understand the direction the 918 Spyder is taking in the 21st Century, it is worth taking a look at its sporting past. Porsche is motorsport. It has been since 1948 – right from the very first second. A racing version of the Porsche 356, the first Porsche model, achieved a class victory in the 24 Hours of Le Mans.
This was one of the first of more than 30,000 race victories to date. The principle remains unchanged today: small, nimble sports cars with comparatively low displacement – yet plenty of potency and fight. This strategy paved the way to dominance in the sport. In 1970 and 1971, the resounding overall victories of the Porsche 917 heralded the start of an era in Le Mans seared into the memory of every fan. With the number Father from Weissach. Mother from Le Mans. The 918 Spyder and the tradition of motorsport. ‘918’, the 918 Spyder takes this heritage on the road. The 918 Spyder is also named after the RS Spyder. Its V8 engine provided the basis for the combustion engine in the high performance hybrid. The carbon-fiber monocoque delivered key foundations for the design, and its lightweight chassis was the model for the 918 Spyder chassis concept.
Out on the race track, the RS Spyder claimed a whole series of victories: in the American Le Mans Series (ALMS) and in the European Le Mans Series (LMS). The Weissach Package for the 918 Spyder (see pg. 56) demonstrates our clear commitment to motorsport. The optional foil decors featuring the designs of historic race cars faithfully follow a great tradition, but as soon as the engines start, the 918 Spyder interprets this in its own unique way. Out on the road, and on the race track, is where it shows its true colors.
