Glass Onion Has a Meaningless Porsche 918 Continuity Error That's Nipping at My Brain

I’m not much for movies; I’m pretty much whatever the opposite of a “movie buff” is. Name your favorite film; I haven’t seen it. But I’ll tell you what I have seen — Knives Out. And I loved it! I could listen to Daniel Craig declare things as Benoit Blanc for hours on end, without the excuse of a plot, and I’d be totally content. Glass Onion, the sequel that hit Netflix just before Christmas, is good too. And it has come to my attention that there’s a car-related continuity slip in it — one I half-noticed while I’m watching, that I’m kicking myself for not fully appreciating sooner.

Don’t worry: if you haven’t seen Glass Onion yet, nothing here will be spoiled, except for the fact that one of the movie’s characters — the Elon Musk-spoofing Miles Bron — owns a Porsche 918 Spyder. He calls it “Baby Blue.” It’s his pride and joy, and it goes everywhere he does. Like on top of his private island resort, where we first see it, and it looks like this:

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It’s mostly a normal-looking 918, in Liquid Metal Chrome Blue, which I feel is the best 918 color. (It reminds me of the Isdera Commedatore 112i, the most perfect supercar ever.) But wait — what’s that near the back? That black winglet at the flank is a giveaway that we’re actually looking at a Weissach Package example here — a 918 with about 90 pounds of weight savings and those aforementioned go-faster bits, including a rear wing in exposed carbon fiber.

This explanation of the Weissach Package’s weight savings offers a good view of its distinctive exterior features.

The next time we see Baby Blue, though, it’s not sporting those winglets, as user theFettster on the Movie Mistakes subreddit explains: