Rating 5.0
MOTOR Dual PESM, 82kWh battery
POWER 800kW
TOP SPEED 309km/h
0-100KM/H <2.5sec (claimed)
WEIGHT 1500kg
PRICE $12.8m
LIKE: Sheer pace; excitement; styling; finish; dynamics
DISLIKE: Not exactly accessible; not as close to next Cayman as we hoped
WELL, THIS IS strange: a race car that comes with its own 45-minute safety briefing, conducted days before you’re to climb aboard. Then, just before you do, there’s another. I could describe it all to you, but the essence is that if all the dashboard lights suddenly turn red, get the hell out.
There’s some advice about how to exit in a hurry while touching either the car or the ground but never both at the same time, but the days of ejecting myself from a car like a champagne cork departing its bottle are probably behind me, if they were ever before me. But there are 900 volts of electricity in here, so I guess it pays to be careful.
‘Here’ is the interior of the Porsche Mission R, and here’s the thing: this is a concept car, the very same one that was on the Porsche stand at the Munich motor show in September. There is another, but it’s a mock-up for show purposes only. In terms of cars that actually work, this is the only Mission R in existence, and there’s no plan to build another.
It has no official value, but unofficially I happen to know it’s valued at ¤8 million (A$12.8m). Yet here I am, clad in fireproof overalls from balaclava to boots, about to take to the track outside Porsche’s Los Angeles Experience Center. And a couple of exploratory laps in the passenger seat have revealed that if you leave the track for any reason, you will crash. There’s no run-off at all...
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