It’s hard to believe, but there are some people out there who think that a 911 Turbo is a maddeningly slow thing that only really appeals to timorous, cowering, lily-livered wimps who wouldn’t say boo to a goose.

It’s to cater for the decidedly macho tastes of such people that Porsche fettlers and tweakers such as RUF, Gemballa and FVD Brombacher GmbH exist.

And it’s the last of those whom we must thank for taking the already fearsomely potent 420bhp car that left the Zuffenhausen factory and turning it into something altogether punchier.

This LHD manual car was supplied new in Arab Gulf States specification to its first owner, a British chap who lived in Dubai.

He soon after commissioned the supplying Dubai dealership, Al Nabooda Motors, to source and fit the FVD Brombacher ‘520 RS’ Stage 2 tuning kit (which includes the sports exhaust, revised induction system and upgraded ECU) and take the car to a monstrous 510bhp and 550 lb⋅ft of torque.

Also fitted, whilst the car lived in D...