Here’s Why the Porsche 918 Spyder is Worth $1.7 Million

This is a Porsche 918 Spider, of course, you already knew that, because the 918 Spyder is one of the most exciting, exciting and widely covered cars made in the last 25 years, when these things were new, they sold for little more of a

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dollars and today. The average selling price of a 918 Spider on Auto Trader is $1.7

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for a car today. I traveled to Nashville, Tennessee and borrowed this 918 from a viewer who is on Instagram as Mazer 327. You can follow along by clicking the link in the description. below and you should follow it because I mean the guy has a 918 spider and a 911r.

Do you really need any more reason anyway? Today I'm going to find out what you get when you pay $1.7 million for a car to get you started. Background In case you don't know much about the 918 Spider, this is Porsche's third supercar in the modern era after the 959 in the 1980s and the Carrera GT in the mid-2000s, when this car was new ago. two years the base price was around 860 thousand dollars but options could easily raise that price to over a million dollars thats crazy but this is a crazy car it has a gas v8 with over 600 horsepower and it also has two electric motors with almost 300 horsepower, the combined total is 887 hp and you can drive it on purely electric power if you want and it will go from 0 to 100 in 2.4 seconds and reach 211 miles per hour, making it the fastest car I have ever reviewed, driven, or sat in to this day.

I'm going to show you the 918 Spider and show you all of its interesting quirks and strange features and then I'll take it out on the road and find out what it's like to drive the 918 Spider. Ultimate Porsche, perhaps the best German car of all time and of course for more of my thoughts on the 918

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I also have a list. of other modern cars currently listed for sale on autotrader that have increased in value, I'll start by simply entering the 918, which is more interesting than you might think now, for one, the 918 key is just the normal standard Porsche key fob, the same key. you would get it if you bought a base Cayenne for 49,995.

Now to get in, it's pretty simple: you press the unlock button and then you reach into this little cubby w

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you find the door handle and open the door, but what happens Yeah? the battery is dead and the electronics are gone, there is no exterior keyhole, well actually, there is one inside the small door handle cubby. You take the key out of the little Porsche key ring, which interestingly you can't do if it's on a key ring, and then stick it inside the carefully hidden exterior keyhole to open your 918 Spider. If the battery is dead now that we are inside the car, we start with the steering wheel.

Now the steering wheel is not so unusual because one part has the Porsche logo. In the middle it has three spokes, it looks like a pretty normal steering wheel, but there are some peculiarities. On the left side you will find three buttons, the top button is for turning the cruise control on and off. There is actually a small hidden button for more adjustments on the bottom side there is a button marked m which is for manual mode if you want the transmission to go into manual mode press the small m button and then you can use the paddles to send then it won't change below that it's a little button with a diamond on it, you might be wondering what that is, the hov lane button, no it's called a wild card button and you can program it to do whatever you want within the central info screen and In-car entertainment, that's right, Porsche calls it a wild card. button is one of the strangest names I have heard for the interior control of a car on the right side of the steering wheel you will find the other interesting quirk which is a small wheel with a red button inside it, the wheel is labeled e h s and r which It means electric hybrid sport and racing, there are different driving modes for the car and yes, electric allows you to drive it in fully electric mode without any gasoline engine, but the really cool thing is that little red button inside the wheel called hot. lap mode, you press it and you get a little more power from the electric motors for a quick lap or a quick pass on a highway or race track.

Since we're talking about driving modes, we'd better talk about the transmission selector, which is one of the strangest things I've seen is that it's mounted to the right of the steering wheel, where you'd find the ignition in a normal car, and it's just this little lever that goes between r at the top and in the middle for neutral and d at the bottom for drive when you want to park the car you just put it in neutral and then hit the parking brake and your part, interestingly enough, this car It doesn't have a start button like everything else including the Hyundai, it has a normal key that you put in the slot. on the left like all other Porsches and since we're talking about strange buttons and switches, we have to move on to the central controls.

Now the central controls in this car have the same font as the buttons in normal Porsche models, but in this car They are not buttons, they are all touch screen. When the car is off, you can't see them. It's just a black panel, but when you turn it on, all the buttons come to life. Now the most interesting of all are the climate controls. The car has dual-zone automatic climate controls, but it only has one dial to adjust the temperature. So how does it work? You press the dial and then what you are adjusting lights up inside the climate control to let you know what you are doing. you are changing, press the dial again, the other one turns on press the dial again, the other one turns on and you can change it while pressing the dial.

It's not the most intuitive solution I've seen, but it cleans up the core. controls and make sure it's not full of complicated switches, dials and buttons like in other cars and since I'm talking about the climate controls, I might as well address another of the strangest things about the interior which would be the climate control vents. climate. Now like most cars there is a climate control vent to the left of the steering wheel for the driver and a climate control vent to the far right for the passenger, that's normal but because of this control console giant central, where is the climate control vent placed? in the middle it's hidden, at the top of the dash there's a small vent that's only an inch high because it's a pretty small cockpit that actually works pretty well, although it's

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noting that you can't direct the air and send it towards you . or in your passenger, choose where to go and since I'm talking about the functionality of the central control, it is

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mentioning that with a small swipe of your finger on the central controls you can adjust the small screen that is at the top of the In the dashboard you can look at, for example, the map, you can look at the radio, the current time and the status of the car, you can also make the screen smaller or larger and you can adjust its position, although, as you can see here, it is not the easier. things to do, these touchscreen things have gotten a lot better even since 2015.

More interesting control. Another thing I like is that the little buttons at the top of the center control console display a picture of the car showing exactly what they are doing when you press them, for example if you press the little button for sleep mode, shows the suspension getting more or less sporty on the center screen, and speaking of that center screen, it's worth noting that this car has not one, not two, but four information screens that you can adjust and look at to see various things different. There are two in the gauge cluster, one is on the left and controlled by a small button to the left of the steering wheel, the other is on the right controlled by a button. to the right of the steering wheel, the other is the one in the middle that I just showed you and the fourth is the one at the top of the center control console.

My favorite of these screens is the one to the left of the gauge cluster, apparently I had a big contract with the screen company, but they had run out of things to put on these screens, so you can choose between two things, one is that you can set a speed limit so that you don't accidentally violate the speed limit if you are driving in an area with a lot of police, the other is that it simply shows what spider number 918 you have, that is good information when you are driving on the road and By the way, the screen on top of the center controls does exactly what you think a touchscreen is and shows you the radio station, for example, and lets you change it.

It shows all kinds of vehicle functions, like interior and exterior lighting, and the sounds the car makes and that little wildcard key I talked about earlier. The steering wheel shows you a map of the navigation system where you are and all sorts of other vehicle functions you'd expect from a central touchscreen. Next, let's talk about the cup holder. Yes, this car has a cup holder that sticks out. the center control console and is actually quite sturdy and can hold a reasonably sized drink. The interesting thing about this cup holder is that it is removable, if you don't want it there you can get rid of it even though it doesn't fold and instead you just set it aside and then you can use it to hold drinks.

I don't know, in your house, would you have a small storage area inside? It's this center console box and it's just about the smallest storage area I've ever seen inside. any car, I don't even know why they bothered now, the other interesting area of ​​the center console is this one here in the middle, it's completely open under this center control console, you can reach out and touch the legs of the driver or the passenger depending on where you are. When you're sitting it's a cool feature, you can't put anything in there, it's just open so you can see through the electric powertrain of this car, not only do you have a tachometer and fuel gauge like you have on all the cars.

In another car, you have a battery life indicator that tells you how much battery is left, which is pretty obvious. My favorite additional gauge is that there is a little gauge that shows how hard the electric motors are working, so when you hit the bottom, the tachometer kicks in and does too. It's great to see the electric power indicator. There is also a small loading screen in the middle of the gauge cluster. This car can recharge while driving using braking and engine power, so when you're recharging, the little charging icons light up. shows that you're recharging your batteries it's a happy world when a supercar has all that now it's worth noting that the production number of your 918 spider not only appears on that little screen inside the gauge cluster, it also appears inside the car in the driver's footwell in the center tunnel and in the center tunnel in the passenger's footwell so you never forget exactly which number 918 you have.

It also appears here on your hood. Yes, that's right, this is your hood. You see all this. It doesn't open back here. You can't open it. If you want to go and look at the engine of your 918 Spider, you have to take it to the dealership and they can open it up. This is the only panel that opens. When you open it, you press a little button on the driver's side door, it opens so you can add fluids like motor oil, but that's it, that's all you get, you pay 1.7 million dollars for a car, You can't even look at your own engine, although maybe that's it. something good maybe we don't need people poking around inside the engine of a 918 spider naturally that's not even close to the 918 spiders just exterior quark here's another one you see this stuff right here this is the engine exhaust there it is no There is an exhaust pipe, the exhaust pipe comes out of the car under the bumper, like in any other car, the exhaust comes out from here, right behind where you are sitting.

The benefit of this is obvious, you can hear the engine much better than when you were sitting. You'd step on it if the exhausts were under the bumper, another interesting exterior quirk of the 918 Spider. How about this? This is the entire rear window. This is all you can see behind you, apart from the mirrors. Your only window in the back. It's so small. About the size of an iPad, I can block everything with my hand, not that I need to because the rear spoiler does a good job of blocking it. Yes, that's right, the rear wing is huge.

The interesting things about the spoiler are the double is that it contains the third brake light of the car, which means that the third brake light goes up and down depending on the position of the spoiler and that's the other interesting thing: the spoiler can be adjust not with a button inside the car, but with you have to go to the rear spoiler menu andYou just hold down the touch screen, so this is what happens: you push it down and the spoiler goes up and down, up and down. The owner of this car likes to keep the spoiler in the upper position because he thinks it looks better that way and I personally very much agree with him, another interesting quirk of the rear, how about the fact that the running light back is up to here, basically, at the bottom of the car, under the license plate?

It's almost as if it's an afterthought, but it's not the lowest at the rear of the car, the honor goes to the reversing camera, which is only mounted a couple of centimeters from the ground. I'm moving over to the side of the 918 to look at some more exterior quarks, starting with the fuel door now on the driver's side is the fuel door and on the passenger side is the door for the charging port, now the door from the charging port, you can walk up to it and open it and if you do you will notice that the door is carbon fiber on the driver's side, the fuel door cannot be opened unless you press a small button on the door On the driver's side, once you open it, there is no cap, just insert the fuel pump and start pumping into your 918 spider.

Another interesting thing on the side of the 918, how about the fact that it was dirty when this car came to me? This morning it was completely clean. I drove around for a bit and looked at all the dirt on the road, the stones, debris and leaves that have already accumulated. The owner says this happens every time he drives it and says that's not the biggest thing. The biggest problem is this entry back here, which often kicks up stones from the road and the front tire, and getting to them is much more difficult than getting to the ones just behind the front wheel.

I can see that being a problem if you wanted to keep your 918 spider clean on the subject of wheels, the 19 spider has center lock wheels that can be changed faster on a race track instead of a wheel that has five lug nuts, It is becoming quite common in sports cars, what is less common is the fact that the 918 spider has different colored center locks on different sides the driver's side is red the passenger side is blue this is a throwback to the race gt but also a throwback to other race cars that have different colored center locks so that people in the pit lanes at race tracks know which wheels go on which side of the car without having to actually look, but that's not what I like most about the wheels, what I like most about the wheels is the inside of them, look at that brake caliper, you notice it's green Tennis ball green, well, Porsche calls that color acid green and it was the 918 color, so to speak, because if you look closely it appears in many more places around the 918.

Next up, the 918

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, is a very low-slung sports car. so not all road obstacles or potholes are always removed, now Porsche knows this, so they equipped it with an axle lift system, press a small button inside the cabin and the car lifts up to eliminate the potholes and other obstacles. Thats not all. It's rare for many modern sports cars to have that now, but it's rare that you find one that runs that fast. Check out. I'm pressing the button now and we're already up. In other words, it's really cool if you're getting close to something that you press the button and then boom, you get up really quickly, the strange thing is that after it gets up this noise happens for a while.

Well, next, how about the fact that the 918 Spyder has a mono wiper, a single wiper for the entire windshield? I don't know that I hadn't noticed that detail in any spider before and I was surprised to see it. I drove the car today in the rain a bit and was also surprised at how well it runs, is fast, and covers. all the windshield and then there is the roof, as the name 918 spider indicates and the parliament of the car spider usually means convertible, probably 2c convertible and the 918 spider is a convertible, although not in the sense that you press a button and the top go down, you pay instead. over a million dollars for a car and you have to remove the roof yourself.

Now I'm going to try this process, although I've never done it before, so here goes. Oh, and before we begin, you first need to remove the passenger side roof panel. because it fits over the one on the driver's side to make it airtight, so start over here and you're done. If you want to store those roof panels inside the car, place them inside the front trunk, where they have a special little shape that they are in. stored, which ultimately steals all your cargo space. Now the trunk has a couple of interesting quirks to open it, you can press a little button on the driver's side door or press a little button on the key fob and it opens by itself, but it doesn't open, you can't open it from here, instead From that, you have to put your hand under it, feel around it, use the latch and then you can open it upwards.

You will find that when the roof panels are not stored here, the trunk is quite large, at least for a supercar. Now, the most interesting thing inside the trunk of the 19 Spider is, without a doubt, this thing that looks like a small piece of carbon fiber about the size of the inside rearview mirror when you're supposed to remove the roof. take off this little piece of fabric take out this little piece of carbon fiber and stick it on top of the windshield in a little slot where it has a house so it can deflect the wind it's a carbon fiber wind deflector that you install yourself when the roof is off , I have never seen that before, I have never heard of that before, it is strange and you will only find out this in this 918 spyder review.

Now, when it comes time to close the trunk, the process is quite simple, although maybe not. what you would expect for a million dollars, you close it and then you push here and push here and the trunk is closed, now talking about interesting carbon fiber pieces like the one I just glued on the windshield, my favorite is this one, it's a conduit. and it could just be a duct, but Porsche has decided to stick some carbon fiber on it because when you charge a million dollars you can stick carbon fiber anywhere you want. The reason this car has that little strip of carbon fiber on the side.

That duck, the reason this car has a lot of extra carbon fiber over the standard 918 is because this one has the optional viceock package, which was a performance package that was optional from new. Named after voiceock which is a city in Germany the research and development headquarters of Porsche now the stock vice package was not cheap it was 85,000 which means if you chose a regular 19 plus the package you were already in 950,000 range before adding other options, included many benefits, but the main one was that it lost 88 pounds of curb weight to make the car a little lighter, that's right, 88 pounds for 85,000 or about a thousand dollars per pound of weight loss.

There were a couple of other benefits too, including the canards behind the rear wheels. for aerodynamics, the rear diffuser, there are door loops inside the interior instead of normal door handles and then there is my personal favorite and that would be the racing harness. Now Porsche cannot sell a factory car with a racing harness in the United States. because then it would be a racing car according to the government, so instead they sell you the 918 and give you the racing harness for free and you can do whatever you want with it, including having your Porsche dealer install it two seconds after you sign On paper, this car has the racing harness in the driver's seat in case the owner ever decides to take it to the track.

Now beyond the interior and exterior of the vice-hock package, there are a couple of other interesting quirks of the 918 that I think are worth mentioning, for example, this car runs a quarter mile in 9.8 seconds. Yes, that's right, this car runs nine times. If you've ever paid attention to quarter mile times, you'll be impressed. Think about it this way. This car is closer. in its quarter mile time to a dragster with better fuel than a camry, which is crazy. Here's another crazy thing. When this car was new, it had a liquid metal paint option that cost 65,000. A new engine in this car costs 265,000 and since then Speaking of money, we could also mention that this car, being a partially electric plug-in hybrid vehicle , qualifies for a $67 federal tax rebate, just like a Volt, Leaf, or Tesla, so when you buy one of these, you can take a credit on your income taxes because you're saving the planet now for Don't say that's absolutely ridiculous.

One thing to keep in mind when this car is in electric or hybrid mode, it has a lower emissions profile than a Toyota Prius now. I take the 918 out on the road. I think we can all agree after one thing and that is to see how it sounds when it starts and don't worry, it's not cold. I've been warming it up. It's going well here, so that's it. The peculiarities and characteristics of the 918 Spyder and before I get behind the wheel, a little story that may be interesting to you. When this car came out, I was working for Porsche Corporate in a boring little office job, nothing exciting except the fun part of my job.

Did I handle all orders for the 918 Spider? If you wanted a 918 Spider, you gave your dealer a deposit and then your dealer contacted me and I worked with Germany to get the dealer allocation for those 19 Spiders for every 19 Spiders, included. this now back then I would sit in a cubicle all day and work with microsoft xl and drive a bunch of crappy used cars and I never thought I'd get the chance to drive one but I was wrong because now I'm driving the 918 Spider, first impression is that the car is actually very fast and I don't just mean fast, but the shifts are fast, the handling is precise, the steering is incredibly precise, the transmission shifts are incredibly fast, surprisingly, for so the rear window is really small.

I can't see anything out there going over the train tracks now well that's fast oh my god this thing is crazy and the really cool thing is when I step on it I can hear a little bit of that electric motor like you used to hear. turbochargers and it actually sounds really cool, it's insanely fast like nothing I've ever driven before, so now I'm sitting here at a stoplight and there's a couple of things that I notice in a lot of cars in a hurricane, you can just sit back and relax. and it's fine in this car, although it shakes and vibrates, it definitely feels like a more serious car, a guy in a Saturn just looked when there were people in the Saturn, that's when you know who you are." I have a great car.

I'm also surprised by how reasonable he is. It feels louder than a normal car. There's no doubt about that, but it doesn't feel tremendously uncomfortable or difficult. Getting in and out is a challenge but it's really not that difficult to operate which is impressive to me it's like a supercar that's a Porsche if you fit in the seats I feel like you could cruise in this thing I got the air conditioning on, I feel comfortable, the trip is hard when you come. until you come to a complete stop, you may feel a little shiver because the electric motor is probably doing something.

I have a big complaint and I realized the moment I got in this car this morning, you know there are like four screens, but the main one is the one here below. for you, you know your line of sight with the touch screen, it really fades in the sunlight because it's basically pointing up. The benefit of its positioning is that it is close to you, right next to the stream, the problem is that it points up and the windshield reaches so far. Back, this screen clears, how come this car is crazy, is it so incredibly crazy?

I have driven many cars, none as fast and you can tell instantly. I mean the r8 v10 plus was the fastest car I drove before this and That was a fast car and it feels a lot faster, the sound is good. The owner told me I need to remove the roof to really hear the sound, so I'll do that in a minute, but the sound is really good. you don't lose anything, oh it's just an electric car, don't worry about that, now I took the roof off and I have to say I can already say it's better, a lot of people say, well it has to be a super car. be rigid, it can't have a removable roof, come on, I mean on the race track you will really feel the difference between x stiffness and x minus 1 stiffness, it's ridiculous, but you feel the difference driving down the road with the roof removed I have to keep Windows up for sound reasons, but I'm telling you, with the roof off this car is just a total joy, it's everything you could ever want.

You got the incredible speed, the incredible handling, the technology and everything that makes this car great, but now I can see the sky, not only is it monstrously fast, but now I can hear that glorious engine because the exhaust is there and it sounds so well that I often talk about how I wishI'd like cars that are less powerful than you really have to sound to have a good time sitting here today driving this thing. I'm not sure if I agree with myself. I suspect few cars in this world sound better than this one. I've driven cars that have better exhaust notes. like the lfa but with the cover off, it's just there, i mean, it's cool.

I don't think I've ever had so much fun and I thought I'd be so nervous about the value when I was on the f40. It seemed so fragile in comparison, this feels like a Porsche on steroids, lots of steroids, you know, it's funny because I drive my amg truck, it's my daily car and I drive it a lot, that's nothing compared to this and it has 520 horsepower , that's a The fast car feels like a Camry. I'm serious, I suddenly know why the left gauge display is dedicated entirely to the speed limiter function. OMG I can't believe it but this car is as drivable even as an ultra car.

I can have fun with it, I can throw it and I can really enjoy it, honestly I thought all these electric super cars were some kind of small cars, oh they are electric, oh how stupid, give me a big V12, that's wrong, this car is amazing and the electric component only benefits it, it is an amazing car, the best sports supercar etc. that I have ever driven in my entire life and I am happy to say that I was able to spend the whole day with it. The owner threw me the keys, he was busy and I was able to really learn the car and experience it and I'm sure I can say it's the best I've ever driven, so ladies and gentlemen, I just spent the day with the Porsche 918 Spyder.

It was in many ways the most incredible car I have ever driven the most expensive the fastest the quickest one of the most technologically advanced I have ever reviewed now it is worth 1.7 million dollars I can hear them typing angrily away no it is not worth it I could have 20 350z for that money ooh no way I could modify a camaro to be faster in the quarter mile fine but if you're worth 100 million dollars and you don't want 20 350z or a modified camaro and instead you want the best, the coolest, the most surprising. the most advanced, the most unique, this is that and now it's time to give it an excellent score, starting with the weekend and style categories.

I may get a little cross about this but whilst I've always found the 918 Spider to be attractive looking I don't think it's actually beautiful, it's nice, it's functional but it doesn't capture my imagination like some cars and it gets an 8 out of 10 , but its scores improved from 0 to 60 in 2.4 seconds, giving it a 10 out of 10. Handling It's truly one of the best I've driven, maybe the best out there with just the new 4GT and it gets a 10 out of 10. A cool factor, come on, only a few cars in history are cooler and it gets a 10 out of 10 and importance measures importance one of the fastest and most expensive cars on the market among the first plug-in electric supercars the best that Porsche was able to make the culmination of decades of engineering once again earns a 10 out of 10.

That adds up to the weekend total score of 48 out of 50, tying the all-time leader, the Porsche Carrera GT, for what we passed to daily categories, starting with features. The 918 is well equipped with many nice things, but it is missing some of the latest gadgets, such as lane keep assist. and automatic steering, obviously you wouldn't expect a supercar to have those things, but this category compares all cars to all others and the most advanced cars have those features, so it falls a little short with a 7 out of 10. Next up en Comfort, the Spider 19 is tough on bumps and the seats are tight, it's not wildly uncomfortable, but it's getting there and gets a 3 out of 10.

Next up is quality, which measures materials and reliability, and the 918 is top-notch with excellent materials that are up to typical Porsche quality, the only issues are the slow response of the touchscreen and, well, the obvious problem of the long-term reliability of a plug-in hybrid supercar 887 horsepower with four-wheel drive, two electric motors and a gasoline engine, it still gets an 8 out of 10. Next up is practicality, which is a measure of cargo volume. The 3.7 cubic foot 19 spiders should give it a 2 out of 10 and normally the gas mileage would help its case, but this car is difficult to get in and out of due to visibility.

It's mediocre and if you lower the roof the cargo volume literally drops to zero and then there's the question of being able to go practically anywhere in a car worth 1.7 million dollars, so I have to give it a 1 out of 10. Finally value and this is the tough one, this car cost just over 1 million dollars new and is easily worth 1.7 million today especially with the voiceock package but is it worth it? It's impossible for any normal person to judge, but I will say that a value increase of 70 in two years suggests that we may be in a bubble of sorts and I'm not really sure that's sustainable.

It gets a six out of ten, but this category is the most difficult of all of them added together and the total daily score is 25 out of 50. Still, it's the first time the Pontiac Azteca beats the 918 Spider in anything. If you've been adding up the scores along the way, you already know that the total excavated score is 73 out of 100, meaning the 918 Spider beats the previous one. Champion the GT race by one point and now has the highest Doug score of all. I guess I need to find someone with a mclaren p1 or a Ferrari to see if I can dethrone the new king.