Every time I neglect to do a POTD a little birdie dies. And every day we neglect to talk about Porches, a baby seal dies. And a teddy bear, too. Yes, well, that’s a Porsche. Kinda. Purists don’t like it. The engine’s in the middle. Boo. A Le Mans-inspired V10 is certainly not a rollicking flat-6. And uh, you know, miniature ceramic clutch = bad and all that. Then there’s the bit about not being able to drive the beast anywhere because it’s so overly insane capable. Michael Spinelli (hi Mike!) wrote a wonderful piece in the latest issue of 0-60 where he drives 5 Porsches in 5 days. One of which is the Carrera GT and Spin’s spinning it (sorry) around some New Jersey back roads when it dawns on him, “It’s just too much car in this context: It’s like flagging down the Apollo space program for a ride to the supermarket. Later, it dawns on me how little fun I’m having.” Ouch. By the end of the ride he’s jonesing for the purity of a 356C Carrera 2. Aren’t we all. However, there’s one little point I’d like to make. Top speed of this German devil is 205 mph. Don’t know where (desert), don’t know how (use the force) but I betcha that’d be fun. And is that Dan Neil?