Porsche 918 Spyder Pays Gorgeous Tribute To Martini Racing Heritage

They say that if you want to tell if a car is truly beautiful, get it in white. But if you want to see if a supercar such as the hybrid Porsche 918 Spyder looks good, you can’t do any better than the classic Martini striped livery.

Porsche has blessed us by doing just that, dressing their upcoming hybrid hypercar in the iconic paint scheme that draped a generation of Porsche racecars beginning in the 1970s. The design will be available to customers when the 918 Spyder becomes available later this year. Yes, please.

In the meantime, the Martini-splashed 918 Spyder continues tweaking and testing on the grueling Nurburgring race circuit, aiming for a target time of 7:22 – which would put it in very rare company: faster than the Nissan GT-R and Porsche 911 GT2 RS, and just a tick behind the Chevrolet Corvette ZR1.

To make that time, the 918 Spyder is powered by a race-inspired V8 engine producing 563 horsepower. That would be plenty of oomph for a sleek sports car weighing just 3,750 lbs., but the car is also fed by twin electric motors – that recharge under braking – for an extra 150 horsepower. In sum total, the 918 Spyder will rocket from 0-60mph in 3.2 seconds, produce 770 horsepower and return 94 mpg from the hybrid powertrain.

But none of that matters when it looks like that. Where do we sign?

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