Porsche recalls 205 918 Spyders to replace defective chassis parts

SECOND RECALL FOR HYPERCAR SO FAR

    2014 -- or The Year of Many Recalls, as it will be known to gearheads yet unborn -- saw well over 60 million vehicles flagged for everything from sketchy ignition switches to exploding airbags to child-trapping trunks. To that colossal figure we can add 205 Porsche 918 Spyders (out of a 918-car production run) that were built with certain defective suspension parts.

     The recall is global, but Porsche says (ominously?) that it knows exactly where each and every impacted car is located. Better yet, there have been no reports of complaints from owners -- Porsche says it detected the problem during in-house quality inspections. The company is being proactive on this one, which is more than can be said about the 911 GT3 fire drama earlier this year.

    Though the entirety of the car's limited production run has sold out, it isn't clear just how many 918 Spyders have been built and delivered; the recall very well might hit most or all of the cars already in customers' hands. We're also not sure if this recall affects the 45 cars that were called back to receive new rear axle control arms over the summer.

     Porsche will repair the vehicles at no cost -- which, considering the $845,000 minimum buy-in, is really the least they can do. The amount of time 918 Spyder owners will have to live without their precious hybrid hypercars? About two days, according to the automaker. Something tells us they'll get by.