Audi e-tron GT

This car, a self-styled grand tourer with more than 500bhp, the underpinnings from a Porsche and the visual presence of a supercar. And this road, one of the better stretches of the North Coast 500 driving route that bends its way around the very top of Scotland. At points it thunders through soaring valleys, at others it traces the rocky landscape as it rises and falls, jinking this way and that.

The seasons seem to change each time you turn a corner. At this time of year, the mountains still capped with snow but their lower slopes turning green to brown, you can drive through sleet one moment and bright sunshine the next. And if on this road, with scenery such as this and while the elements trade blows, if in amongst all of that a sporting electric car cannot deliver a memorable driving experience, perhaps such a car never will.