WITH PORSCHE, less is often more. Weissach’s greatest products have regularly been the ones that were most surgically pared back; a purer distillation of the company’s essence.

Can the latest Porsche 911T elbow its way into that pantheon of greats? Is this the 911 we’ve been screaming out for?

Inspired by the philosophy of the 1967 911T, the latest version is, ostensibly, a 911 Carrera with the Porsche Active Suspension Management (PASM) option ticked and then a whole lot of unticking going on.

In come a shortened gear shift lever for the manual car, a subtle front spoiler lip, grey mirror shells and 20-inch titanium grey Carrera S wheels. A sports exhaust is fitted as standard with black tips and the interior also gets Sports Seats Plus. Purists will doubtless prefer to option in the bucket seats. The price? $238,400 for the manual car, with a PDK twin-clutch option offered as well.

With prior 911 generations, we’ve had to wait for the GTS models to get a ‘best-of’ compilation of the Carrera range and even then, it was possible to come away with the feeling that a lot had been loaded on, and that the 911 had strayed so far from its original source that the 718 Cayman seemed a more accurate inheritor of the philosophy of the fast and focused Porsche coupe.