Slathered in Magmabeam Orange paint—a special color reserved only for this unique sports car—and tattooed in tessellated AMG logos, it features a kind of ombre fade, stern to bow, from orange to black, making it noticeable, even in the literal sea of candy-colored superboats that occupy the myriad waterways around Miami, where we enjoyed an afternoon of test rides.

“In the past, Porsche helped develop an airplane engine, and we once had a customer asking if they could integrate that in a road car. We could not.”