Highlights 3.6-litre air-cooled flat-six Just 40,146 miles, verified 6-speed manual transmission with all-wheel drive Excellent service history Presented in lovely condition throughout Overview Classic cars are ace.

We love the theatre, the character, the analogue nature of the handling and the soulful wail of a multi-cylinder internal combustion engine compressing and exploding liquified dinosaurs.

They’re marvellously evocative things.

But, and let’s not beat about the bush, they take serious commitment to keep on the road.

They sometimes leak and cough like an old (but much loved) Labrador and they’ll probably keep you on first-name terms with that nice chap from the AA.

And yet we keep returning to them.

Because, like it or not, whizzing electrons and super-complex hybrid systems, while tremendously good fun in their own right, don’t have the same soul.

What to do then? Well the answer is simple: you buy a Porsche 911.

Not only is it the finest example of “how to make a fas...