Partying like it’s 1988

ASKING £24,950 PRICE ENGINE 5340cc/V12/OHC POWER 273bhp@5250rpm ...

What have I done? I have just spent about six times that which I’ve yet previously spent on a car, on a vehicle that has twice as many cylinders as I’m used to, will consume about double the amount of

Can it really be seven years since the 992 generation of the 911 hit the road? Somehow it can, with events having contrived to shrink the passage of time. When the car was unveiled at the Los Angeles

The V8 Vantage remains an automotive icon two decades on from its launch – still riotous to drive but now tantalisingly affordable

am being overtaken by my own wing. As I tilt up onto Boxberg test ground’s banking and the sun curves behind me, the lengthening shadows project the great roll hoop of a spoiler onto the road ahead. S

Conditions were perfect. It was a warm, dry afternoon and we were yards from a lightly trafficked and derestricted German autobahn. I joined from the sliproad, saw there was nothing in front, checked