Porsche has an obsession with creating as many car variants and optional extras as possible. They’ve got 25 versions of the Porsche 911 alone, each offering what feels like the world’s longest options list. To find out what kind of bizarre, interesting, and expensive cars their obsession can create, I dove into their online configurator.

Porsche’s configurator is quite possibly the best in the industry. It has a 360-degree 3D viewer, providing a visual representation of nearly all exterior and interior options. But best of all, it has a button that plays the engine noise of the chosen car. Porsche’s entire website could just be that one button and I’d be perfectly happy.

To start, I chose the Porsche 911 Carrera. This is the base model of the 911 lineup, sending 350 horsepower to the rear wheels through a seven-speed manual gearbox. It has a starting price of $97,285 including destination fees. For the colour, I picked out a lovely shade of brown “Mahogany Metallic” – there goes $820 of my imaginary money. I kept the interior plain old black, but put down $4,400 to cover most of it in leather. To top it off, I added some very comfy-looking Adaptive Sport Seats with more ways of adjustment than I knew were possible. $3,960.
All pretty normal so far – pricey, but certainly plain. Things started to get interesting with the additional exterior options. For $5,700, I checked off the SportDesign package, ...