Cayman

At £37,589 for the entry-level 2.7-litre Boxster, and £45,384 for the Boxster S, you'd expect them to be flying out of the showrooms, especially with its unfeasibly efficient flat-six boxer engine which propels even the slowest model from 0-62mph in 5.5 seconds and yet still manages to deliver 36.7 mpg.

We've known since last summer that Porsche would launch a more sporting variant of the ever-popular Cayman before the year-end, and whilst speculation was rife about its nomenclature it was never likely to be called a CS.

Instead Porsche have chosen to call it the Cayman R and if you're familiar with Porsche naming convention then you'll already realise that such a distinction is important. The Porsche alphabet reserves the letter R for very special sports cars in its range: R for responsive and refined – but most especially for racy. Porsche claims that the new Cayman R combines all these attributes without compromise.