Someone Made a Porsche 918 Harlequin

The original Volkswagen Polo Harlequin cars of the Nineties, which featured intentionally color-mismatched body panels, have inspired a number of tributes over the years. Go to any VW meet, and you're bound to see at least one newer Golf sporting this crazy green-blue-yellow-red livery. A more surprising tribute is this, a Porsche 918 Spyder.

YouTuber Automotive Mike captured this harlequin 918 Spyder at an event for supercar owners in Spain. Even among other exotica, this 918 stands out for obvious reasons. Perhaps unsurprisingly, this is a wrap, with the distinct livery applied over the silver paintwork of a 918 Spyder by a Dutch shop called Next Level Cars. It was apparently done for a VW event in Germany earlier this summer, and the owner has kept the wrap on for this gathering in Spain.

The original VW Polo Harlequin were actually painted. VW built a number of Polos in a single, standard color, then took body panels off and reassembled the cars in one of four possible patterns. It started out as a special project for an auto show but proved popular enough for a production run of 3806 cars, per Hagerty. If you ordered a Harlequin, you didn't get a choice of pattern—you got whatever VW sent. VW built a couple thousand for the European market in the mid-Nineties, and around the same time, VW of America built a handful of Golf Harlequins.

VW's Harlequin was bizarre, but it somehow worked, capturing the multi-colored spirit of the era. This 918 tribute is much the same.

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