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It looks like they stopped at an auto store and picked up some trailer lights to go in it because that is what they did.
This is still a prototype, people. That is what automakers do for engineering prototypes- the shell of the lights is there, but not the insides, so you pickup some trailer lights that fit to make it street legal. Same reasons why there aren't any corner marker lenses.
Believe it or not, the internals to the headlamps are some of the last parts to be tooled up for a production car, mainly because the design of new, sealed and integrated LED lamps are incredibly complex, requiring lots of small parabolic mirrors, reflectors, aluminum cast heatsinks, and lenses... very intricate design that is driven usually purely by stylists that change the design over and over until the last minute. So those parts, along with properly fitting fascias, are usually some of the last parts to get production tooled. All of the 918's shown so far have had non-production lights and front fascias- yes, even the ones at car shows.
With the exception of the first showcar (which was nothing like these prototypes underneath) they have all been running engineering prototypes and it seems like they don't give a f*#% what they look like to some extent.
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