Porsche Mission R

THE MISSION R SOUNDS VICIOUS. NOT IN A CONVENTIONAL SENSE, you understand; there’s no shockwave from a raucous racing V8, punching through the air and resonating up through your feet, nor the high-pitched wail of a V12. Indeed, even though it’s ready to go right now, systems primed and whatever else goes on inside this machine out of sight, it’s currently silent bar only the whir of a fan, rather like being shut in a server room.

They say it runs at 900 volts, that today it has around 450bhp, but that in time it will offer anywhere between 671bhp and 1073bhp depending on the mode it’s in, and yet… there is nothing to give away the raw power that lurks within. All I can hear is the sound of my