Back in the summer, when we went mob-handed to annex Javea, I was supposed to get my hands on a Porsche 911 Turbo Cabriolet to play with on the mountain roads. But it didn’t happen. Why? Who knows. Perhaps the fact that they were very, very thin on the ground had something to do with it. Well, they still are pretty thin on the ground, but now I have one to play with, and we have 4, yes 4, Porsche 911 Turbo Cabriolet for sale. Oh, and we even have a couple of Porsche 911 Turbo for sale as well, just for good measure.

It’s really hard not to love the 911. It is such a special car. I admit, I have never fallen in love with a Porsche yet (although I’ve done the 911 thing and I run a Cayenne), but they are wonderful machines, and in many ways I admire them more than any other car on the road. And the Turbo is in a league of its own. Nothing, and I mean nothing, can keep up with the Porsche 911 Turbo in the real world. It is so manouverable, so potent, so reliable, it astonishes every time you use it. If you want real-world, useable supercar performance you can forget the Veyron; forget the Reventon; in fact, forget anything else. The 911 Turbo will get you there more quickly, more safely and more economically than any of them.

With performance of around 3.8 to 60 and a top speed around 195 you can see on paper why the 911 Turbo is quick. But it is awesomely quick in reality, and the 911 Turbo Cabriolet loses so little to its hard-top sibling it is almost irrelevant. With summer coming, this is a great time to get hold of one of these. I’m sorely tempted, but I think Carla would have a contract out on me if I bought toys before I finished the house! But if your house is finished, you’ve no excuse not to have one of these! We’ve got 2 black and 2 silver. Good specs. Don’t hang around long.

Will Porsche take over VW? It’s been an industry rumour for some time. Porsche actually owns 31% of VW, but only has 20% of the voting rights. Odd? Well, yes it is, but it’s down to a ‘Golden Share’ scenario in German law, similar to situations we had in the UK with privatised companies. It was designed to stop overseas investors taking over companies that could be considered ‘National Treasures’.

After a ruling by the European Courts of Justice this week, the ‘Volkswagon Rule’ looks to be lost, paving the way for a full takeover of VW by Porsche.

What does that mean for the petrol-head? Does it mean a Porsche badged Golf or Beetle? Highly unlikely! But it could throw up some strange bedfellows. A Porsche badged Bentley perhaps? The Audi R8 reined in as it offers too much competition to Porsche? Both are possible, but probably unlikely. However, one thing that is going to be a potential problem is Lamborghini. It has long been rumoured that Porsche are uncomfortable with the Lamborghini marque being in the VW stable. It could mean a sell-off for Lamborghini at some point. Which would be a shame. Much as I loved the mad as a hatter Lamborghinis of old, they weren’t great cars. VW have changed that (with its ownership of Lamborghini through Audi) and the Lamborghinis of today are a serious competitor to Ferrari. It would be a shame to see them change hands and revert to the Lamborghini of old. But it might be interesting!

The takeover of Europe’s largest car manufacturer by the world’s most profitable car company certainly raises some interesting possibilities. Watch this space!

Yes, it’s another 911, this time the remarkable Porsche 911 GT2.

Following close on the heels of Ferrari with the F430 Scuderia comes Porsche with the 911 GT2, a car very much in the same vein - a road-legal track version of an already unbelievable piece of machinery.

I have always struggled with the Ferrari/Porsche dilemma. On one hand you have a piece of art in the Ferrari which, however much things have moved on, is not really an everyday car. On the other you have Porsche, which makes cars that are quite simply staggering in their engineering and usability. It’s like deciding whether you are turned on by Van Gogh (or ‘Van Go’ for our American friends - I’m sorry, but every time a hear that it sounds like an instruction to a delivery driver with poor English!) or Brunel. To be honest, they both rock my boat, as do Porsche and Ferrari.

There seems to be very little doubt that the new GT2 is the ultimate version of the 911 - ever. I am expecting to get my hands on one very soon (lucky boy!) so we’ll be doing a proper road test as soon as possible. But the drool-inducing information we’ve got already leaves me in no doubt that this is one awesome machine.

The GT2 is a Turbo plus. Stripped of the 4wd (it is a real rear-wheel drive car) and putting out 530bhp, the GT2 does the 0-62mph sprint in 3.7 seconds (right up there with the Scuderia). Top speed breaks the magic 200mph barrier, making this the fastest 911 ever. And, due to a number of very clever tweaks, this car is even more planted at the limits than the Turbo. Just like previous versions, the GT2 has a fair bit of weight stripping going on, and base weight drops by around 300lbs over the base Turbo. But the completely stripped-out version isn’t the only option - you can now have the leather seats and other bits to make life that bit more comfortable. About time, say I. This complete ‘naked’ fetish Porsche and Ferrari seem to have with these cars is all about headlines. The difference it makes is so tiny you can’t really notice. The F40 was probably the worst for this (it didn’t even have proper windows for goodness sake) and much as I love driving ultimate performance vehicles, I do like a few home comforts. And let’s be honest, all that weight stripping goes out of the window as soon as you have a passenger. And if you’re a fat-boy like me (16st - but I am 6′ 3″, so not a complete bloater!) you end up with a car weighing more than the standard, especially in comparison to having Frankie Dettori at the wheel! So yes, the weight drops make good headlines, but a few comforts are better!

With a new nose, rear wing and huge 325 section tyres, there is no missing this car. It looks so damned aggressive and purposeful it makes your mouth water! So here’s looking forward to the road test - watch this space!

Is there room for another Cayenne model? We have the underpowered entry-level V6, the mad as a hatter Turbo and, the pick of the bunch, Cayenne S. So why have Porsche launched the GTS? Simple; it fills a real gap.

I have to hold my hands up and confess I use a Cayenne S every day, and a very good car it is. Not the prettiest car ever made (but nowhere near as bad as Clarkson pretends) but as an all-rounder there is nothing that comes close. But as a keen driver I do find it can be irritating at times. The modern desire for ‘clever’ auto boxes and trick electronics does mean that carbon emissions can be kept in check and fuel economy figures can shine, but the truth is they do dull the driving experience. In my Cayenne I tend to use the tiptronic quite a lot, because if I don’t the car just doesn’t respond after a period of ambling. There’s nothing worse than cruising to a junction, looking to make a quick exit and finding the car doesn’t respond! But using the Tiptronic solves that. And if I really want to play I turn off the PSM and then the car comes alive - and it’s much more fun!

The new Cayenne GTS comes with a very useful extra 20bhp and a standard manual box. That could well make it a lot of fun! Whether it becomes tiresome on a day to day level I’ll leave until we’ve done a road test, but on the face of it this is a good move. Add to that the big 21in wheels, PASM (although I’d probably go for the PSM and full air suspension instead), a shorter final drive giving a 0-60 of around 6 seconds and you have a very interesting addition to the Cayenne range!

A very good question!

The plan was looking good. Off to sunny Spain (Y’viva Espana - you might need to be a certain age to understand that!) for a week with the extended family (Mum & Dad’s milestone birthdays this year, so the first whole family holiday for 30 years) and the joys of a hire car for the week (even if it is a people carrier). But then came the prospect of having a new Porsche 911 Turbo convertible for a couple of days to road test while we’re there. The plan was coming together! Fly out on Saturday, pick up the Chrysler Grand Voyager from Hertz and blat down the road from Valencia to the villa in Javea. Bit of afternoon sunshine to top up the tan and then a nice dinner in the evening. Lazy breakfast on Sunday morning, toast gently in the sun until well done, and a burnt BBQ (because I usually do the BBQ!) by the pool in the evening. And then, just when I was getting bored with the sun, the Porsche would turn up on Monday morning. Perfect!

Javea lies on the eastern coast of Spain, at the foot of the Montgo mountains, so lots of opportunity for nice twisty mountain roads, a couple of runs down the motorway to Alicante, stopping at Calpe on the way down to let my brother-in-law pick up a Harley to play with, and the holiday was starting to look perfect. Lots of family ‘brownie points’ and car-time too. But it’s all gone wrong!

Apparently, there isn’t a turbo convertible available for me to test! There was, and now there isn’t. Why? Who knows. So it’s going to be a week of eating, drinking and sunbathing. Not the end of the world I know. And I’m sure it will be loads of fun, even if we do have to move round the Costa Blanca like a modern-day version of the Beverly Hillbillies, crammed in to the Chrysler Grand Voyager!

The Porsche would have been nice though!