Ultra-exclusive Porsche 918’s painful crash that goes viral on TikTok
What you are about to see may hurt the feelings of many oil lovers, and seeing a destroyed supercar is always painful, but Seeing virtually the world’s only supercar, which could be worth more than one million euros, damaged causes even greater pain.
It’s not just 918
The event comes from New York, where a Porsche 918 Spyder ended up yesterday, from what little can be seen in these Tiktok videos, with a large portion of the front left corner completely destroyed. The wheel was completely torn off and lost – although it seems to have been found later – and of course a good portion of the sheet metal and headlights were pretty damaged, not to mention the damage that would be found on the axles and brakes.
The Porsche 918 Spyder is already quite an exclusive car, but here we see an almost unique car, one of the few with a body covered in the always successful Martini colors.
The event took place, as the police told our colleagues from Road & Track, in the area of Statan Island. Apparently According to the driver, his accelerator pedal got stuck, causing him to collide sideways with a Volkswagen car stopped at a traffic light. Fortunately, there were no serious casualties: the drivers of both cars were taken to a local hospital with minor injuries.
However, the car was not so lucky. The Porsche 918 Spyder arrived in 20215 as the German brand’s first supercar with 887 hp, a total of 918 units and an 887 hp engine. a price that today reaches a million or even 2 million euros for apartments in the best condition. Now add the exclusivity condition for this device. concrete and you’re guaranteed an expensive bill and a long wait to get it back on the road.
Antonio Ramos Ochoa, who specializes in the world of engines, competition and technology, is the editor of Car and Driver magazine. They say that before getting out of the car, he already named the names of the cars he saw on the street. Several years later he is still here talking about one of his passions. A fan of motorsports, movies, video games and history, he even blows off some steam behind the wheel of a go-kart or simulator from time to time.