Oh yummy! I'll take two...

[Gob]

918 Spyder hybrid sports car is most expensive Porsche yet - but at least it will be cheap to run.

Porsche has opened the order books for its most fuel-efficient car - and it will cost Australians at least $1.5 million.

The German car maker has put a European price tag of 645,000 Euros on its most expensive car yet, the new 918 Spyder that won't go into production until late 2013.

Porsche will build only 918 units of the Spyder, which will be constructed around an expensive but lightweight carbonfibre-reinforced plastic monocoque but will be left-hand drive only.
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Porsche Australia says wealthy customers here can still order the 918 Spyder for use on a race track, though it has criticised the government for still applying the luxury car tax to a car that cannot be registered for the road locally.

"We have genuinely interested buyers [for the 918], even though they know it's left-hand-drive only," says company spokesman Paul Ellis. "It's absurd that the luxury car tax should be applied to a car that cannot be registered for road use in Australia."

The luxury car tax adds 210,000 Euros to the price, and with GST and other charges means the 918 Spyder is a $1.5 million proposition for buyers.

http://smh.drive.com.au/motor-news/new- ... 1c5ue.html

[Miles]

Well the way I see it if you can afford to buy it you can afford to fuel it.

[Gob]

Good point Miles!

If someone can afford to but a $1.5 m car, they REALLY wouldn't be worried about fuel costs!!

[@meric@nwom@n]

Nice but I would take this one instead. Still pricey at half a million but it is classier with its umbrella holder/dryers and suicide doors. Plus there is room for the dog in back.

[dgs49]

The people who buy this would be a strange breed, indeed. Perhaps Al Gore? Elton John?

I imagine the depreciation as it goes out the door of the dealership would be several times the cost of the average house in Australia. There's a happy thought.

[Crackpot]

Obviously speaking as someone completely unfamiliar with the acceleration electric allows

[oldr_n_wsr]

Well the way I see it if you can afford to buy it you can afford to fuel it.

Let them buy a Tesla.

I was a passenger in a Tesla. The acceleration is unbelievable.

[Jarlaxle]

Anyone that says that has never driven a truly FAST car!

[Crackpot]

Have you ever driven an electric?

[dales]

Anyone that says that has never driven a truly FAST car!

From Wiki:

The Roadster's 0 to 60 mph (0–97 km/h) acceleration time is 3.9 seconds for the Standard Model and 3.7 seconds for the 2010 Sport Model. MotorTrend, which performed the first independent instrumented testing of the Roadster Sport, confirmed the company's reported 0 to 60 mph time of 3.7 seconds (MotorTrend recorded 0 to 60 mph of 3.70 seconds; it recorded a quarter-mile test at 12.6 sec @ 102.6 mph).

No slouch IMNSHO

[Jarlaxle]

Have you ever driven an electric?

No. However, I have driven fast cars...my Caddy (all 4500+lbs of it) will handily dust the Tesla, it's covered by half a second (11.97@116MPH). My wife's Grand National will ANNIHILATE it, it's a 10-second car & traps at 120+. (Not bad for a little V6!)

[dales]

S L O W

[oldr_n_wsr]

Doubtful those cars were stock from the factory as the Tesla is.