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Porsche 918: the definitive verdict - BBC Top Gear
from there in the link, it says;
what's hot
It needs absolutely no allowances from you. The delivery is progressive and the throttle as instantly sharp as a knife-cut. At low and middle revs, the arrival of the surge is as brutal as a big turbo engine, but with none of the lag or softness. As soon as you so much as think about moving your foot, the power's there for you, propelling you into the next dimension.
I did some laps following Walter Rohrl who was in a 911 Turbo S - itself a blindingly fast car by almost any standard. In the slow corner before the main straight, I'd take an extra tight inside line, just to exaggerate the feel of the steering and the balance. The Turbo S would go catapulting off own the straight, becoming a thimble-sized spot in the distance. I'd floor the 918. By half-way down the straight it'd have reeled him in and I'd be cruising on part-throttle, wondering what's for lunch.
what sux
Although the rear electric motor runs through the seven-speed gearbox, the front electric motor has just one gear, its ratio chosen to give most drive at low-to-medium speeds. In fact at 165mph the front motor is decoupled entirely to avoid over-speeding it. In other words, at high speed the 918 is RWD only. But you won't spin your wheels at those speeds because you'll be in a high gear, so 4WD is unnecessary. Whereas in low gears, you're extremely likely to get wheel-spin from the rears, so some balancing front traction is welcome.
By controlling the electrical power to the front and rear motors, the car can instantly vector its own torque. Plus there's four-wheel-steering keeping you stable. As soon as the rear wheels spin up, the car is designed to send more torque to the fronts. No drifting please.
interesting car...its not a Fulltime AWD, it's a part time AWD then at high speed its a RWD...
oh i like the look of it...
a kind of revised 1960's styling...with a tinge of 1980s racing aeros with a smother of smoothness of the 1990's...clayworked towards the 2010's...lovely
Porsche 918: the definitive verdict - BBC Top Gear
from there in the link, it says;
what's hot
It needs absolutely no allowances from you. The delivery is progressive and the throttle as instantly sharp as a knife-cut. At low and middle revs, the arrival of the surge is as brutal as a big turbo engine, but with none of the lag or softness. As soon as you so much as think about moving your foot, the power's there for you, propelling you into the next dimension.
I did some laps following Walter Rohrl who was in a 911 Turbo S - itself a blindingly fast car by almost any standard. In the slow corner before the main straight, I'd take an extra tight inside line, just to exaggerate the feel of the steering and the balance. The Turbo S would go catapulting off own the straight, becoming a thimble-sized spot in the distance. I'd floor the 918. By half-way down the straight it'd have reeled him in and I'd be cruising on part-throttle, wondering what's for lunch.
what sux
Although the rear electric motor runs through the seven-speed gearbox, the front electric motor has just one gear, its ratio chosen to give most drive at low-to-medium speeds. In fact at 165mph the front motor is decoupled entirely to avoid over-speeding it. In other words, at high speed the 918 is RWD only. But you won't spin your wheels at those speeds because you'll be in a high gear, so 4WD is unnecessary. Whereas in low gears, you're extremely likely to get wheel-spin from the rears, so some balancing front traction is welcome.
By controlling the electrical power to the front and rear motors, the car can instantly vector its own torque. Plus there's four-wheel-steering keeping you stable. As soon as the rear wheels spin up, the car is designed to send more torque to the fronts. No drifting please.
interesting car...its not a Fulltime AWD, it's a part time AWD then at high speed its a RWD...
oh i like the look of it...
a kind of revised 1960's styling...with a tinge of 1980s racing aeros with a smother of smoothness of the 1990's...clayworked towards the 2010's...lovely
