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Porsche Reportedly Accepting Orders for €500,000 918 Spyder

Porsche certainly caught our attention in Geneva this year where they unveiled the 918 Spyder. An advanced prototype demonstrating how performance and the environment can co-exist, the 918 Spyder is far from just a pretty face. Reports in the months since its debut have been pointing towards the 918's production, and now Bloomberg claims to have it on good authority that those plans are coming to fruition.

According to the business news service, over 2,000 prospective buyers have contacted Porsche with their checkbooks at the ready. If only half those potential customers come through, that would be enough – according to Bloomberg – to begin production. The price for the privilege, however, looks to eclipse any previous Porsche sportscar at €500,000, or about $630,000.

Gallery: Geneva 2010: Porsche 918 Hybrid concept

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Porsche Wants to Sell 918 Spyder, Building Business Case

by Jeremy Korzeniewski (RSS feed) —

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Porsche 918 Spyder Concept – Click above for high-res image gallery

If you build it, they will come. That would be our advice if Porsche decided to ask us if it should offer a production car based on the 918 Spyder Concept that wowed attendees at the Geneva Motor Show earlier this month. Somehow, though, we'd imagine that the German automaker would want a more solid business case than our personal opinions. Good news, then.

Rumor has it (by way of Automobile Magazine) that Porsche is actively working with its dealers to find enough buyers who are ready and willing to plunk down their hard-earned dollars on the next halo car from the quintessential sportscar maker. Porsche R&D chief Wolfgang Dürheimer says that the company would be rather pleased "if customer feedback is positive and we end up over time with about 1000 firm orders."

If Porsche were to put its hybrid 918 Spyder into limited production, it wouldn't be without precedent. Back in the early 2000s, Porsche used a similar tactic to put its awesome Carrera GT on the market... and we all know how that turned out, don't we? As we said before: If you build it, they will come. Trust us. Oh, and there's a bunch of new images in our high-res gallery below... just in case you're in the market for a new desktop background.

Gallery: Geneva 2010: Porsche 918 Hybrid concept

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2010 Geneva Motor Show: Ze Germans

by Noah Joseph (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Luxury Cars & Autos

Germany is the very epicenter of the European automotive industry, playing host to several of the world's largest and most significant automakers. But with the Frankfurt expo forced to alternate with the Paris salon, Geneva is the closest to a home turf international auto show these companies have.

Ever keen to demonstrate the latest cutting-edge automotive innovations and show the world their newest developments, Germany's automakers crossed the border into Switzerland this year with a virtually unprecedented array of new vehicles. Follow the jump to read and see what they brought.

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