PORSCHE 911 GT3

We tend to crow a bit about the history of Autocar's annual Britain's Best Driver's Car supertest.

Well, sorry-not-sorry: we're proud of it. When the first one was convened in 1989, pulling together a large field of the most exceptional performance cars of the year all in one place, driving them back to back and then getting a number of expert judges to democratically aggregate their subjective impressions in order to be sure which really was the finest of the lot was a novel concept.

The format has been copied a fair bit since, but the original is still a special event; it's perhaps the very best thing Autocar does, and it's certainly one of the most important as far as keen drivers may be concerned. And in the 34 runnings of the exercise that we have had, only three other cars have done what the current Porsche 911 GT3 did at Anglesey last November: successfully defend a 'Handling Day' title.