Its hulking 1920kg and its languid damping in the softest of the three maps make it more authoritative in such conditions than any drumskin-taut McLaren. Meanwhile, the steering is hefty and synthetic by class standards, with a lack of self-centring. But it’s calmly sped and immune to the twitchiness that makes supercars tiring on treacherous roads.

All of which puts a question mark over the E-Ray’s potential for A-grade thrills later on – but right now makes it as easy-going as a BMW M8 Competition, which is fine and dandy by me. And make no mistake, there’s genuinely good security underwheel. On a series of soaking roundabouts I can’t help but gradually up the ante and am surprised how well the Michelin Pilot Sport 4S tyres put power down on exit (as well they might, at a Ford Mustang GTD-matching 345mm!).

The electric axle gently but determinedly helps you stay aligned. It’s early doors, but the E-Ray already makes its case.

By Fort William, where we stop to replenish the car’s generous 70-litre fuel tank, the rain has ended. By Invergarry there are, for the first time in what feels like days, a few golden rays peeping through the greyness. The gorgeous, race track-esque A87, scribbled across the landscape, is also nearly deserted. Having waited for this moment, I get ahead of myself and swivel the drive mode rotary from Tour to, naturally, Track and prepare to uncork 634bhp.

Because why the hell not? Let me tell you why: Track mode is comically overwrought. The steering is like a deliberate caricature of a Can-Am racer’s and the damping is impressively but psychotically unyielding. In the UK you will last at most 30 seconds before admitting defeat and opting for Sport instead.

You can, of course, cook up your own mode. This is nothing new, but do your homework: it gets complex. With MyMode you can set and forget a combo for the exhaust valving, steering weight, damper rates, throttle progression and brake feel. But there’s also Z mode, named after Zora Arkus-Duntov, the Russian engineer who is part of the Corvette firmament. As ever, Z mode is activated via a metal button on the plush, if quite odd, quartic wheel with its droopy spokes.

Now you get the customisation of MyMode but can also tune the stability/traction control, for which there are no fewer than seven presets. Surely only the new 911 GT3 RS, with its thousands of damping set-ups, has more mode permutations.