They'll probably do full electric instead.

They are. It's called the Mission E and it looks superb.

I don't see Ferrari or McClaren doing stuff like this, and yet as far as I'm concerned Porsche and its great motorsport legacy is at least up there with theirs, or anyone's.

I love my V6 diesel Amarok if that helps at all, but it sure ain’t no sports car lol. It has a certain unpretentious honesty about it...

I think you're stretching the point of "unpretentious" with a >£40k pickup a little there

Not my bag to be honest mate. Nice concept for sure, shame these were made at the absolute worst tail end of the British Leyland nationalised disaster-era that put paid to our home grown and owned volume car makers. “Build quality issues”, it’s fair to say.

I wonder if stuff like this will get super cheap in a few years. I mean will classic cars end up like Elvis memorabilia when most of the people who are into them start dying off?

Not my bag to be honest mate. Nice concept for sure, shame these were made at the absolute worst tail end of the British Leyland nationalised disaster-era that put paid to our home grown and owned volume car makers. “Build quality issues”, it’s fair to say.

Car manufacturers have strict targets for average CO2 emissions across their entire production, but there are exemptions for small volume manufacturers like McLaren and Ferrari. Although Ferrari are part of FCA they are run separately and still get to avoid the financial penalties.

Because Porsche are far more closely linked to the rest of VAG and sell a quarter of a million cars a year they have to try far harder to keep emissions down. Every four cylinder 718 or diesel Cayenne they sell gives them a bit more latitude to make an extra limited run 911.

The engineering lives on, though: It's odd to think that the engine in the Exciting Rover also powers Caterhams, the larger version Elises and the 45's heater controls are found in Zondas.

For me, the irony here is Porsche find themselves in a position whereby, thanks to bullshit enviro laws, they cannot actually build the fabulous sports cars they really want to make!

Well they could if that's what they really wanted to do. Just reduce production to that of say Ferrari.

They like making pens, trainers, toasters and other tat too.

TBF their toasters sound the bollocks when they're cranked up to 5.

Fabia sounds like a very intimate vajazzle.

Are there vajazzles that aren’t intimate?

Oh, we were great engineers, sure enough. One has only to think of the Mini, the Comet jet, Blue Streak rocket and any number of other stuff besides. Nationalisation and the unions destroyed our ability to actually make any of it to any degree of proficiency though, unfortunately.

Stop talking Britain Down, Cavey! I need to get about!

I had a 627 Vitesse Fastback when I was 20, and I loved it to death.

That's the one that was merrily idling away in the car park when I came back from doing some shopping, despite me having switched it off and still having the keys in my hand.

Excellent. It was warming itself up for you. Is that an "8"27, though?

Have you changed that fuel filter yet?