When it comes to the hybrid hypercar triumvirate that has taken over the performance car world, most of the hooning videos involve people abusing LaFerraris. Nevertheless, the Porsche 918 Spyder isn’t exactly a stranger to the world of hooning.
For one thing, Zuffenhausen itself manhandled the hybrid juice out of the car, taking the 918 to the Australian outback and launching towards the top speed on a (closed) public road. Nevertheless, today we are here to talk about the kind of smokey throttle abuse.
We want to discuss private hooning and we want to show you a 918 Spyder baking a series of hybrid donuts. As you’ll be able to notice in the video below, the driver of the four-wheel drive hybrid manages to get it on without too much drama.
We’re enjoying ourselves watching such circular pleasures, but not just because this is an 887 HP petrol-electric monster. The other reason to rejoice is that one rarely gets to see machines that wear a Porsche badge doing donuts or burnouts.
Porsches are instruments of handling finesse, honed for exploring areas such as the Green Hell and yet sometimes it’s nice to see such a machine acting like a hybrid that came straight out of hell.
The regret we have after watching this clip is not getting enough of the naturally-aspirated 4.6-liter V8’s soundtrack. As you know, Porsche’s move into a territory that’s mostly turbocharged is just around the corner and we’ll be missing their current abundance of atmospheric engines.
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