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Nice, but unlike the technollogy, the styling is hardly ground breaking.
I do like the proportions though... one of the advantages of using a V8 rather than a 10 or a 12 is that the rear deck can be much shorter, which in turn allows a more balanced distribution of the cars bodywork... I often think that some Supercars just look like a cabin stuck on the front of an engine.
The technollogy is where it at with the 918 though... the Hybrid system is the same as used on the 997GT3R Hybrid that was leading the Nurb 24h race with a few hours to go last year in its first ever race. And I read some numbers for emissions and MPG that were astonishing for any car, let alone one with the 918's level of performance.
No, but with styling you don't necessarily want "ground breaking" when you can go for ball-aching beauty, in the classic sense. It's amazing Porsche went ahead and built a car like this when the sedans and SUV's and lower-tier sports cars they make range between bland and insipid. Obviously the designers with functioning eyes got sent to the motorsports department where they were promptly told to build a sex goddess of a car. I mean:

That's just pornographic.