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How many of you saw Porsche unveil the new 918 RSR this morning at the Detroit Auto Show?????????? I think I smell another run at an overall victory at Le Mans in the near future!!!!!

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I watched it live. Looks amazing and I love the throwbacks to the 917.

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Beautiful car but I can't help but think it looks like a Lotus.

That's not a bad thing.

Maybe Porsche will start producing some light weight "Lotus" like cars in the future???

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Looks great!!!!!

PCA Zone 4 is having a Detroit Auto Show day this Saturday. Am looking forward
to seeing that in person.

Anyone from Zone 4 coming this Saturday????

It was worth getting up at 3:15am to watch. Can't wait to see and hear this "flat fan" V-8 beast on the track...563hp from the gas engine, and hit the button for an electric boost to 767hp....Holy Cr@p, 204 additional ponies with the push of a button

I hope that it gets to the track soon, cant wait.

I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for that car to win LeMans overall. I'm thinking it will be raced in the GT1 class, or maybe in another series altogether.

I wonder what the fan is for? The engine is water-cooled and the Kers device is in the passenger cockpit.

JR

That looks great. It does have 917 elements to it.

I think it would be great for the sport and great for VW as a company to create race and development teams within each group - Audi, Porsche, VW, etc., give them each their own budget and independence and have them to compete for the win at Le Mans. Think of the innovation that would come from having those in-house teams competing against each other.

My thoughts exactly.

Pretty car; at first blush, though, reminds me of a Ford GT.

Is that a flux capacitor in the passenger's seat?

Just don't drive 88 :D

It's the KERS unit

There is another video out with the car on the track...in that video there are some overhead shots, and it apears that the fan is for additional engine cooling.

Lines are not angular enough for a Ford GT, more like a Lotus Elise, and from the front it is similar to a ferrari, there are also many hints to the 917.

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In fact, I'm pretty sure this car doesn't fit into even the GT1 class right now, much less any other LeMans class. :confused:

I'm pretty sure it will run the 24 hour event at Nurburgring along with James Glickenhaus' Ferrari P4/5 Competizone

It looks like a Noble to me.

It looks like it is spinning as an exhaust fan instead of an intake fan...???

That's the problem, isn't it ? Where would they race that thing ? ALMS has dropped GT1, but then again if Corvette can run a big engine vs. Porsche's comparatively puny RSR motor, maybe this is the central engine solution to be competitive in GT2 again... I think the 997 RSR will get its ass handed to it this year, so that might have been a cool car for the lizards...

The 918RSR has a 6.2L V8 plus KERS, is that the comparatively puny motor you were talking about?

I think it looks like a 904

what is this fan?

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This is a car that doesn't know what it is supposed to be. It's got the chassis and finish of a supercar, half-interior for road use, non-necessary style items such as the rear fan, yet they call it a race car. It doesn't have a class to race in other than prototype at Nr24, and surely won't race anywhere in the totted-up leather wrapped dress as shown.

I would have rather seen it without the race colours, without the flybrid system, with a full 2 person interior and less conceptual, more production worthy intentions, to be released as a Carrera GT successor. Then at least it would have made sense.

I think its one of those cars they built, "because they could"

OMG! I want one! I'm sure it will cost me two years of gross pay...but I want it! And it has a V8!!!! It will even sound as good as it looks!

Wonder how long before Hyundai builds a $50k clone~

N!

PS: I sure hope that the silly "Lambo" doors are just for the show; every Honda Civic in town has these and a juice-can muffler-

Just found out from a friend that works at Porsche Cars North America (senior manager in marketing, so I guess he knows), the fan is used for cooling the electronics bay that is located between the cockpit and engine bay....LOTS of electronics in a hybrid. I really don't think it was built "just because they could", since Porsche AG calls it the 918 RSR Racing Laboratory. Sounds like they will enter it in some second tier races to work the bugs out of the technology. I think what we are seeing is the shape of racing in the future, and once again, Porsche is breaking the ground.

I love it!

I can't wait till one of those flywheels explodes :p

No it is not, and I thought my post was clear enough that you'd see I was talking about the current GT3RSR used by the lizards and other teams in ALMS, the 4.0...

"ALMS has dropped GT1, but then again if Corvette can run a big engine vs. Porsche's comparatively puny RSR motor, maybe this is the central engine solution to be competitive in GT2 again... I think the 997 RSR will get its ass handed to it this year, so that might have been a cool car for the lizards..."

Guess I was not clear enough, or you read too fast...