Porsche is at present hooked on the exhausting stuff: the rare-groove particular editions each producer of word appears to be purveying as if their existence trusted it. (Maybe it does?) It’s apparent why.

These creations delight the engineering groups, however so too have they got the bean-counters positively frothing on the mouth, such is the willingness to swallow outrageous costs. It’s straightforward to see these initiatives as cynical.

And you then meet the vehicles first hand.

The Porsche 911 Dakar? Silly automobile, foolish worth, however actually, fantastically tremendous firm in the true world and an instantaneous basic.

The new 911 S/T? Hugely contrived, despicably costly, however most likely essentially the most intoxicating but usable supercar Porsche has ever made. Sublime.

Which brings us to the 911 Sport Classic, which arguably began all this nonsense within the ‘997’ period, when it embraced a style-over-substance method with a wholly pointless duck-tail, houndstooth innards and nearly no mechanical tickles.

Asking worth: £140k. Or, in 2009, £10k greater than a 911 GT2!

This yr, Porsche reprised the Sport Classic thought, cueing prejudiced ambivalence within the Autocar workplace, significantly when the worth was revealed to be £214k.

Except the brand new SC is a genuinely attention-grabbing 911, with its personal character and quirks.

Yes, you get all of the aesthetic trinkets, which I can take or go away, however beneath that’s an entity each particular and distinctive: a non-S 911 Turbo shorn of its entrance driveshafts and fitted with a guide ’field. In 2023, it feels a bit rebellious.