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Originally Posted by billh1963
Not that the 918 isn't great. But first? That's hard to pinpoint
I believe the McLaren P1, BMW i8 and maybe even La Ferrari were in development and even became available for sale around the same time.
My "me Too" comment comes from the fact that they didn't invent the concept...merely jumped on the bandwagon
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They all went on sale about the same time (mainly because Porsche was producing far more cars and needed a more serious production set up.) but the 918 concept was first shown march 2010. Laferrari not until 2011. Mclaren p1 concept not until 2012. The i8 had a very concepty concept in 2009 lol, then a more serious close to production concept in 2011, but at the end of the day the i8 is very far from any sort of high performance hybrid it's more in line with the fisker karma and tesla model s just with more interesting styling.
So by these standards the 918 was by far the first of the bunch and at least publicly truly did invent the concept, quite literally.