reginos:
@Whoopsy
Congratulations for taking such a special car on this "cinematic" road trip Most of those cars spend their life hidden in garages. Porsche AG must give you credit for proving their car.
Perhaps you could tell us more about the behaviour of the 918 (which can be classified as a hypercar) on the variety of roads traveled , ranging from very high speeds to slow traffic.
The car putt along just fine in traffic, especially if it’s in EV mode, drives like a pussy cat.
Even with the engine running the PDK is perfect, no complaints, except it’s loud😂
At high speed it is as stable as a rock, cross wind doesn’t affect it and it drafts quite well behind semis. Been pretty much running at 90 mph all day today and yesterday through Montana and South Dakota. I would stay in the right lane behind semis until a bit close before I pull out and pass. I can see the power meter goes down when I got close then go up when I pulled out to pass.
3 days of drive, 1900 miles, never used cruise control once. My right foot is better than the computer in controlling speed. I can dial in little power increase going up hill or pulling out while maintaining the same speed. The excellent throttle pedal helps.
Couple down sides. The seat is hyper uncomfortable for long road trip like this. The seat angle is all wrong and the padding isn’t good. I stick a small travel pillow as back support and that helps. Lots. No elegant way to get in and out when the roof is on, every time as gas stations I literally falls out of the car.
The other down side is the noise. Tire noise. Americans simply doesn’t know how to build proper highways. They use bare concrete, groves or no groves. With no sound deadening in the car, on groves highways the tire noise/roar gets up to 89 decibels. And averaged around 85. I used an app to measure. Not just the sound level but also the pitch. It’s a high pitch ‘scream’. Some sections are covered in asphalt, and on those the car averaged around 78-79 decibels, with high of 85, much more tolerable.
Suspension tuning is perfect, the car already started with little or no roll in corners, the ride is firm, but it soaks up bumps in one go, doesn’t oscillate more after the initial hit. Very enjoying ride.
There is zero visibility driver side 3/4. A car would appear in the central mirror through the pot hole, it then disappear with the hump blocking that view, and it doesn’t quite appear in the side mirror yet. Annoying. Passenger side is the same story, that hump in the back blocks off quite effectively. There was this one stretch a stupid driver decided to hang at my driver side blind spot for a good 5 miles.doesn’t pass me doesn’t slow down and just sit there. Being an asshole. I had enough and floored it for a good bit and don’t see that car anymore.
Hmm, what else is there.
gas mileage. Through Washington with heavy traffic and constructions, car was doing about 26 mpg, think we average out to be 60ish mph. The hybrid system keep helping on the highway. But once I hit Montana with the much higher average speed, we basically sat at 90 mph for the whole state and most of South Dakota, the mpg drops to ~22mpg. Hybrid system offers no help at that speed.
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