orsche unveiled its most powerful production car ever, the Cayenne Electric, which is also its heaviest car ever. To prove that weight is not an issue, the Stuttgart-based automaker pitted the SUV against the 918 Spyder. There is a 12-year gap between the two.
Porsche unveiled the 918 Spyder in September 2013 at the Frankfurt Motor Show, when auto shows were all the rage. It dropped as a plug-in hybrid powered by a mid-mounted 4.6-liter naturally aspirated V8 and two electric motors. The system produced numbers that were incredible at the time: 875 horsepower (886 metric horsepower) and 944 pound-feet (1,280 Newton meters) of torque.
It did 0 to 60 mph (0 to 97 kph) in a mind-blowing 2.2 seconds. It dropped, at the time, as Porsche's most powerful and quickest production car. The plug-in hybrid system had to pull a model that, equipped with the Weissach Package and sporting a tiny 6.8-kWh liquid-cooled lithium-ion battery pack, weighed 3,602 pounds (1,634 kilograms).
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