To be honest, nobody who looks at the specs of these two cars expects the Japanese model to have a chance of winning, but the Porsche 918 Spyder manages to win by a landslide. It almost looks like the Lexus guy forgot his handbrake on!
With every generation, supercars get lighter, faster, more powerful. In 1975, the Lamborghini Countach and its 400 horsepower V12 was considered the pinnacle of performance. Now you can have a hatchback with that much power. Lexus outdid itself when it built the LFA and when production stopped, some rather large shoes were left to fill.
But what a modern supercar like the Porsche 918 Spider managed to achieve is nothing short of amazing. LFA production stopped in December 2012, while Porsche's hybrid monster arrived in 2014, so only two years separate them.
The LFA has a V10 engine compared to the German V8 and also boasts 0.2 liters of extra displacement. Yet thanks to the hybrid tech, the 918 Spider is much faster in a straight line.
Before watching the inevitable outcome in this video, we should also consider that there's a huge gap in price. While a brand new LFA Nurburgring Edition retailed for $445,000, the Porsche is nearly twice as expensive at $847,000.
This drag race was filmed this weekend by Youtuber Shmee150 at Vmax 200 Nine Eleven, hosted by Auto Vivendi at Dunsfold Park, the home of Top Gear. It's one of the few places in the country where cars like this can cut loose and reach their full potential.
Mihnea's favorite cars have already been built, the so-called modern classics from the '80s and '90s. He also loves local car culture from all over the world, so don't be surprised to see him getting excited about weird Japanese imports, low-rider VWs out of Germany, replicas from Russia or LS swaps down in Florida. Full profile
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