Paul Horrell 10 September 2013  Porsche 918 Spyder roars into
view  The disguise is finally off, and it’s just broken the
Nurburgring lap record. Paul Horrell reports   The 918 has
become the first production car to crack seven minutes around
the Nürburgring Nordschleife, posting a best of 6 minutes 57
sec. You can see the video below. Turn up the sound and be
convinced a hybrid doesn't need to sound like a Hoover. Not when
there's a top-pipe flat-crank V8 naturally aspirated engine
howling away behind the driver's shoulders.   In the end it was
Marc Lieb who did the 6'57" time, though Walter Rohrl did a sub-
seven minute time too. In fact they did a sequence in a four-
second window, which must say something about the predictability
of the car's handling. It certainly rescued Top Gear when we
drove a prototype, without much skill, in treacherous
conditions...     The numbers that result from all that densely-
packed tech go like this. The 4.6-litre V8 makes 608bhp, or
132bhp per litre, and can rev to 9150. And