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4 of the 918 made • Swiss specification model • Generously optioned • Dry stored since acquisition "The art of understatement is evidently not lost on the good people of Porsche.

Quietly under-promising and then spectacularly over-delivering is a surefire way to produce very satisfied customers.

Always has been; always will be.

It has worked a charm for Stuttgart's sports car specialist for decades and continues to with the (whisper it) incredible 918 Spyder.

Here is a car with hybrid-carbon fibre construction, a combustion engine and suspension set-up donated by a prototype racing car, and a petrol-electric 'plug-in' powertrain the likes of which the world has never seen." – Autocar.

Nowadays, in these increasingly environmentally-conscious times, even supercar manufacturers are expected to make at least a cursory nod in the direction of better fuel economy and reduced emissions; hence the arrival of 'hybrid' technology in this previously fossil-fuels-only sector of the ma...