Porsche 918 Spyder, every mention
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- ▶ 2:27:10 David Rosenthal Also, this is when they come out with the nine 18 Spyder, um, their next supercar at this moment in time, there's all this, oh, Porsche is now owned by VW and consternation.
- ▶ 2:27:25 Doug DeMuro And the nine 18 helped to introduce, um, like plug in hybrid technology, which Porsche knew it would be going in that direction.
- ▶ 2:27:32 Doug DeMuro And so the nine 18 was like an, like example we were talking about before of how they like covered the Cayenne with the Carrera GT by saying we're still doing this.
- ▶ 2:27:39 Doug DeMuro The nine 18 helped them say, hey, we're gonna make hybrids, which is viewed as this, like, cheap, you know, like little car, the Prius, and so you think of, well, here's a hybrid, and we're gonna do hybrids, but we're gonna start top down…
- ▶ 2:28:08 Doug DeMuro Like the nine five nine was all wheel drive, and this car was kind of this new production facility, and, and the nine 18 was the plug-in hybrid technology.
- ▶ 2:28:22 Doug DeMuro The nine 18, they only made 918 units.
- ▶ 2:28:34 David Rosenthal But the, the nine 18 Spyder is, what, a two million dollar car?
- ▶ 2:29:18 Doug DeMuro But the nine 18 Spyder was Porsche saying, we're gonna go into this plug-in world.
- ▶ 2:29:43 Doug DeMuro It's important to keep in mind that the nine-eighteen Spyder, being a plug-in hybrid, it had a electric component, but it also still had a massive V-Aid in it that had a zillion horsepower, screaming and all that, you know.