India, April 12 -- There are very, very few timeless cars. Thanks to advancements in engine technology, demands of luxury and the need for modern safety, a car today looks very different from a car in 1963. But then there is the Porsche 911. If you have ever been to the Porsche Museum in Stuttgart, which is one of the best automotive museums in the world (alongside the Mercedes-Benz Museum in the same city), you will see an exhibit which is nothing more than line drawings of Porsche's evolution, from the original Porsche 356 to the latest 911, and you realise that the car's designers have always followed the mantra of "evolution, not revolution."

Its engineers, on the other hand, have not, and that is apparent when you get behind the whe...