992 Porsche 911 review - Prices, specs and rivals

911s have been around so long you could use them to measure inflation, and a starting price of £82,793 probably looks quite good value once you’ve traced entry-level 911 prices through the ages. The skill is in any customer who can drive out of their local Porsche dealership having paid no more, as Stuttgart’s options list is vast, and adding five figures to that number is easily done.

The Carrera 4 coupe starts a little above this, at £88,101, and the Cabriolet at £92,438. Just a little more – £93,110 – is where the Carrera S price lists begin, with the 4S at £98,418 and the S Cabriolet breaking the hundred grand barrier at £102,755.

For some context on options pricing, the last Carrera S we drove came in at £109,187, including £1844 of sports exhaust, £1646 for Sport Chrono, £2054 for Porsche Dynamic Light System Plus LED headlights and £1599 for 14-way electric sports seats, among many other options. The beauty, of course, is that you can really make a 911 your own. That’s before you even start adding Porsche Exclusive Manufaktur options such as, for amusement’s sake, leather air vent fins...

Even a standard Carrera is not light on equipment, with features such as four-way adjustable sports seats, LED headlights, climate control, keyless go and cruise control as standard, as well as leather seats and that large 10.9-inch central display.

Finding a true rival for the 911 is difficult. If it hadn’t escaped your attention, there are no other rear-engined 2+2 sports cars on the market, and very few in fact that are 2+2 full stop. In a recent test we compared the Carrera S against four other cars – the Aston Martin Vantage, Lotus Evora 410, Audi R8 and McLaren 570GT – but one of the greatest takeaways from that was the impressive variety at this level in the market. That, and as a vehicle to live with every day, the 911 is still very difficult to beat, even if others are faster or more exciting.