Hennessey Builds 600-Horsepower F-150 SVT Raptor SUV: Video

2015 BMW 1-Series GT Seven-Seater Spy Shots

Mercedes AMG F1 Team Names Paddy Lowe As Technical Director
Ferrari 458 ‘Scuderia’ Set For Frankfurt Auto Show Debut...

Next-Generation Land Rover Defender Delayed: Report

Bailey Blade XTR Gets Funding, Coming To SEMA
Now Is Your Chance To Put A Maserati Wagon In Your Garage

Schumacher, Rosberg Hit The Nürburgring In F1, AMG Cars: Video

Consumers Are Ready To Go Autonomous

Ride Along In The Porsche 918 Spyder With Chris Harris: Video

Nelson Ireson

Senior Editor BIO

Nelson is a Senior Editor at High Gear Media focusing on reviewing cars and covering the hottest topics in luxury and performance cars, car culture... More

LATEST ARTICLE
Bailey Blade XTR Gets Funding, Coming To SEMA
The long-running garage project of BXR Motors, or perhaps more accurately the indefatigable Neal... Read More

#3LEADERBOARD RANK
6335ARTICLES CONTRIBUTED
229COMMENTS POSTED

1,907 views Oct 2, 2012

Follow Nelson

Add to circle

Related Photo Galleries

Porsche 918 Spyder Laps The Nürburgring In...

See more photos »

Ride-alongs, without the opportunity to drive, as Chris Harris notes in this video, are one of the main gripes of the canapés-and-cocktail-shrimp lifestyle of the automotive journalist. It's just kind of lame not to be allowed to drive the car yourself.

It's also a lot less valuable in terms of experience that we then translate to you, the reader, through our impressions. But, in the case of the 918 Spyder, we're willing to make a bit of an exception. Fortunately, so is Chris Harris.

As a result, we get the footage above, Harris riding along with Porsche engineer Holger Bartels, showing the car in action, silent all-electric mode and all. Sadly, there's no track time involved, but we imagine that will come along soon enough.

Our favorite part of the video? The child-like glee evident on Harris' jaded, been-there-done-that face. Must be one hell of a car.