By duPont REGISTRY –  September 25, 2026

Elferspot Spotlight: A Certified Carrera RS 2.7, 993 GT2 and a GT2 RS Weissach

Every so often the listings line up and tell a story without much help from us. This week it's the story of two badges. RS first went on a 911 for 1973, on a lighter, sharper car Porsche built so it could go racing. GT2 arrived in the mid-1990s on a stripped, rear-drive 993 Turbo built for exactly the same reason. By 2018, Porsche had put both names on one car. All three are on Elferspot right now, and all three sit at the far end of the market, where the car is only part of what you're paying for. The rest is paperwork. These listings come with very different amounts of it, from a Porsche Classic certificate issued this summer to a detailed spec sheet and not much else, so we've been straight about where each one stands. The first 911 RS, the first GT2 and the car that finally wore both badges. 1973 Porsche 911 Carrera RS 2.7 Touring GALLERY-EMBED Porsche needed 500 of these to homologate the 911 for competition, and buyers had other ideas. Demand pushed production to 1,580 cars, most of them in M472 Touring trim, which kept the RS running gear but gave back a properly finished road-car interior. The formula was simple enough: a 210 PS Type 911/83 flat-six, less weight, wider rear arches and that ducktail. Chassis 9113601491 was built on June 14, 1973, late in the run, in Signal Yellow over black leatherette. It keeps its matching-numbers engine and Type 915/08 five-speed, and the factory equipment includes Recaro sport seats on both sides, headrests and H3 auxiliary lamps. What really makes this car is the paperwork Porsche produced for it in July. An authorized Porsche Classic Partner in Japan, where the car sits now, inspected it and issued a Technical Certificate confirming the chassis, engine and transmission numbers, the Signal Yellow body and roof, the interior and the Touring specification. The body showed no visible damage, overall condition was rated excellent, and every mechanical area inspected passed without anything flagged for corrective work. For a 2.7 RS changing hands across borders, that carries more weight than any amount of seller enthusiasm. You aren't taking anyone's word for the numbers, because Porsche checked them a couple of months ago. A certificate tells you what a car is rather than where it has been, though, so the ownership story is still the conversation to have. And if you're buying from the US, budget for getting it home from Japan. View Listing 1996 Porsche 911 GT2 GALLERY-EMBED Porsche named the GT2 after the racing class it was built for, and the road car made very little effort to hide it. Starting from the 993 Turbo, Porsche deleted the all-wheel drive and cut around 205 kg (452 lb) in total, then added bolt-on arch extensions, a large fixed wing and a much harder chassis setup. It weighed 1,295 kg, about 2,855 lb, with 430 PS (424 hp) from the twin-turbo 3.6 going to the rear wheels alone through a six-speed manual. Porsche built 172 of these first-series road cars, followed later by just 21 with 450 PS. This 1996 car is one of the 430 PS originals, finished in blue with a two-tone black and blue leather interior and showing 55,860 km, roughly 34,700 miles. That's real use by GT2 standards, and personally I'd rather see one of these driven than stored. At USD 2,399,995, though, the badge only gets you so far. With 172 cars in the series, each one gets priced on its own history, originality and specification, and the listing doesn't go deep on any of that yet. Graham Rahal Performance is the place to ask, and the answers will decide whether this is simply a rare GT2 or an exceptional one. View Listing 2018 Porsche 911 GT2 RS Weissach GALLERY-EMBED Two decades on, the badges finally met. The 991 GT2 RS was the most powerful road-going 911 Porsche had built when it arrived: a 3.8-liter twin-turbo flat-six with 700 hp, sent to the rear wheels through a seven-speed PDK, with rear-axle steering and ceramic brakes as standard. The optional Weissach Package on this car is worth having for more than the look. Carbon roof, anti-roll bars and coupling rods, magnesium wheels and extra titanium hardware take off roughly 30 kg (66 lb). On paper this one is easy to like. One owner, 4,391 miles, carbon bucket seats and front-axle lift, with a red and black cabin that gives the car far more personality than the black paint does. West Coast Exotic Cars in Murrieta, California, is asking USD 729,990. The caveat runs opposite to the Carrera's here. Specification is covered in detail, chronology much less so, and the listing doesn't publish service records, accident or paint status, the original delivery market or an option-code sheet. That's not unusual for a dealer listing, but it's what you'd want in hand before committing at this level. Very low use over eight years also means tires, fluids and anything rubber deserve a close look, whatever the odometer says. View Listing

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By Khris Bharath –  September 23, 2026

Rare 1-of-16 Speed-Yellow 997 Porsche 911 GT2 Listed For Sale

A rare 2008 Porsche 911 GT2 finished in Speed Yellow has been listed for sale by Grand Prix Motors and is being offered here through duPont REGISTRY. Believed to be one of only 16 examples painted in the color, along with a black leather interior, carries an extensive list of factory options, further adding to its appeal within an already limited production run. The GT2 lineage dates back to the 993 of the mid-1990s, and it has traditionally sat at the top of the 911 range; the formula behind it is consistent across most generations. Porsche takes the era's 911 Turbo, ditches the all-wheel-drive system, adds power, and cuts weight until only the essentials remain. In effect, the model marries the focused chassis philosophy of the GT3 to the turbocharged power of the 911 Turbo. However, the reputation that came with it is older than the 997 itself. Some modern GT2s certainly pack the ingredients to be a "Widowmaker,". a nickname first attached to the 930 Turbo, and a nod to the demands of sending large amounts of boost to the rear wheels.  Power comes from a twin-turbocharged 3.6-liter Mezger flat-six that produces 530 horsepower and 505 pound-feet of torque. The engine uses variable-turbine-geometry turbochargers, the same tech found on the contemporary 911 Turbos, tracing its architecture through Porsche's racing program to the 911 GT1. That drivetrain layout is the defining feature here, because the GT2 pairs considerably more power than the GT3 with rear-wheel drive along a six-speed manual and a curb weight of just  3,175 pounds, around 320 pounds lighter than the Turbo. Porsche Ceramic Composite Brakes, a titanium exhaust, and extensive use of composites accounted for further savings. The aerodynamic hardware is functional, with ram-air intakes integrated into the GT2's rear wing supports feeding combustion air to the engine. The distinctive gill-like outlets behind the rear wheels serve as intercooler outlet ducts, helping air flow efficiently through the intercoolers. Hydraulic steering, a notably mechanical manual shift, and firm suspension further give the GT2 a distinctly physical character by modern standards. The performance puts the 997 GT2 remarkably close to the Porsche Carrera GT halo supercar, with 0-60 mph taking just over 3.0 seconds and a top speed of 204 miles per hour, putting the 997 GT2  just one mile per hour shy of the V10-powered flagship. Two-time World Rally Champion and Porsche Works driver, Walter Röhrl, also reportedly lapped the Nürburgring Nordschleife in 7 minutes and 32 seconds, close to the Carrera GT's old time of 7:28, also set by Röhrl.  While the market awaits a 992-generation GT2, older models are drawing collector attention. Amongst the analog-era cars, we have the water-cooled 996 and 997 model families. Notably, the 997 also marked the final time the GT2 family offered a manual gearbox, in the GT2 RS that followed, before the 991 GT2 RS arrived with only a PDK dual-clutch transmission. <- Gallery -> This brings us to this particular 997 GT2. As 1-of-16 finished in Speed Yellow, and one of just 214 for North America, it is among the rarest colors in an already small production run of roughly 1,270 examples built at Porsche’s Zuffenhausen plant in Stuttgart for the 2008 and 2009 model years. The bright color carries through to the interior with the seatbelts and stitching in contrasting yellow set against a full black leather cabin. The car is fitted with carbon-fiber bucket seats and carries a carbon interior package, carbon switch panels, carbon rear center console, and illuminated carbon door-entry guards. The accompanying Certificate of Authenticity also lists the Sport Chrono Package Turbo, Bose Surround Sound System, Navigation Module for PCM, carbon multifunction steering wheel, black-painted wheels, Porsche crests on the headrests, and more. With its rare Speed Yellow finish, extensive list of factory options, six-speed manual, and Mezger-powered performance, this 997 GT2 represents one of the most distinctive configurations. Click the link below to view the complete specifications, mileage, and price. View Listing Images: Grand Prix Motors, Porsche AG If you're interested in financing any other exotic car, be sure to get pre-qualified.

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By duPont REGISTRY –  September 18, 2026

Elferspot Spotlight: A Mid-Engined RUF, a Manual Anniversary 911 and Workshop 5001's First Car

Most Porsche shopping happens inside a fairly narrow band. You pick a model, settle on a year, sort by mileage, and go. What makes browsing Elferspot worth the time is everything sitting outside that pattern, the cars that only really make sense once somebody explains them to you. This trio needs the explanation. One is a mid-engined RUF wearing a finish that changes character depending on where you stand. One is a numbered factory special with three pedals, a thick folder of paperwork, and a signature from a Brumos legend. The last is a 1973 long-hood that looks almost stock and absolutely is not. Three Porsches, three completely different arguments for what makes one worth keeping. 2009 RUF CTR3 GALLERY-EMBED The CTR3 is the point where RUF stopped being a tuner in any meaningful sense. There is no 911 underneath it. The 3.8-liter twin-turbo flat-six sits ahead of the rear axle in a purpose-built mid-engine chassis, driving through RUF's own six-speed sequential manual transaxle, and the seller puts total production at roughly 31 cars since 2008. This 2009 example has covered 1,901 miles. Then there is the paint. Chroma Flash Hologram Matte does something genuinely strangeelfer in shifting light, and against a Sport Red interior it gives the car the kind of personality most low-mileage supercars have quietly optioned away. The rest of the specification is thorough rather than loud: carbon-ceramic brakes, a hydraulically adjustable front axle, leather-wrapped carbon seats, Grey Alcantara, RUF's own instruments and controls. One caveat worth flagging. The listing quotes 682 hp in the description and 701 hp in the structured specifications, so if the exact figure matters to you, get it confirmed by Young Motorcars in writing before you fall for the number. It changes nothing about how rare the car is. It is just the sort of thing you want settled early. View Listing 2014 Porsche 991 Carrera S 50 Jahre Edition GALLERY-EMBED Limited editions live or die on whether the individual car backs up the badge. This one does. Number 0906 of 1,963, Geyser Grey Metallic over Agate Grey with the model-specific houndstooth seat centers, 16,600 miles and, crucially, the seven-speed manual. Porsche built the 50th Anniversary on the Carrera S but handed it the wide Carrera 4 body, Fuchs-inspired Sport Classic wheels, Sport Chrono and PDCC, with 400 naturally aspirated horsepower going to the rear wheels only. What separates this one is the file that comes with it. Original window sticker, service records, both keys, previous Porsche CPO history and a recent DME report showing seven Range 1 ignition events, which is about as clean as these get at this mileage. Hurley Haywood has signed it, and that deserves a moment of thought, because a signature is permanent and a small slice of buyers would rather have the car untouched. Most will take the Brumos connection gladly. Beyond that it is front paint protection film and a hardwired radar detector, the second of which is an easy reversal if it bothers you. View Listing 1973 Porsche 911 Outlaw GALLERY-EMBED Marlon Goldberg left Singer and built this. Number 1 is the first complete car to leave Workshop 5001, and it was plainly meant to argue a point, because almost nothing about it shouts. Nardo Grey, narrow bodywork, steel wheels. Goldberg and John Bowman deliberately stepped around the wide-body, backdate-heavy formula that was taking over at the time. The original owner called it a "wolf in sheep's clothing" and eventually sold a 997 GT3 RS because he would rather drive this. Under the restraint sits real engineering. The 3.4-liter twin-plug flat-six makes north of 318 hp on Jenvey individual throttle bodies and a MoTeC M84, running through a rebuilt 915 gearbox with a limited-slip differential and KW three-way Motorsport coilovers. The chassis was stitch-welded and reinforced on a Celette bench, work Workshop 5001 puts at roughly USD 40,000 by itself and credits with a 15 to 20 percent gain in rigidity. It shows 7,870 miles since the build. Valuing it is the tricky part, since you are pricing a builder's reputation and a first car rather than a production number, and that is harder to benchmark than a numbered edition. The upside is how well documented it is. Elferspot's own feature on the car has Goldberg and the original owner on the record, which is more than most cars in this corner of the market can offer. View Listing

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By Khris Bharath –  September 18, 2026

Forbidden Fruit: 996.2 Porsche 911 GT3 RS With Rare Blue Accents Listed for Sale

The 996 generation of the Porsche 911 still carries a complicated reputation among enthusiasts. It introduced water cooling to the 911 and arrived with the controversial fried-egg headlights, two characteristics that have long influenced values of more common 996 variants. Those concerns matter considerably less with cars like this 2004 Porsche 911 GT3 RS listed by Graham Rahal Performance. What makes the 996.2 GT3 particularly noteworthy is that Porsche never officially imported or federalized the 996 GT3 RS for the United States, meaning examples that reached the country earlier relied on federal exemptions such as Show or Display. The 25-year import rule will eventually remove those restrictions for individual cars, with a 2004 example reaching that threshold in 2029. The car’s rarity is further enhanced by its color and graphics. Every production 996 GT3 RS left the factory in Carrara White, with the graphics, wheels, and accents finished in either red or blue. This particular example wears the scarcer of the two factory looks with the blue accents. Porsche never released an official color breakdown, but enthusiast registries estimate red outnumbered blue by roughly two to one, which would put the blue cars near 227 examples of the 682 units produced worldwide. The blue theme runs deep on this car, across the GT3 RS side graphics, the 10-spoke lightweight wheels, the seatbelts on the Recaro bucket seats, and the badging, all set against red brake calipers and the fixed carbon rear wing. <- Gallery -> Inside, the car keeps the classic five-pod instrument cluster with the tachometer front and center, exactly as a driver-focused Porsche of this era should. The Recaro buckets, the exposed roll cage, and the metal shifter for the six-speed leave no doubt about the car's intent. This is a stripped, mechanical, analog machine from the last era before electronic aids began filtering the experience. The 996 GT3 RS holds a distinction the later generations cannot claim outright. Introduced in 2003, it was Porsche's first modern GT3 RS, developed under Andreas Preuninger, the man enthusiasts know as ‘Mr. GT3,’ and it exists to homologate the 911 GT3 RSR for international GT racing. That singular racing purpose shaped nearly every decision about the car. It received a carbon-fiber hood and rear wing, a polycarbonate rear window, deleted sound insulation, a roll cage, and revised suspension geometry, all to shed weight and sharpen response. Power comes from Porsche's naturally aspirated 3.6-liter Mezger flat-six, which produces 381 horsepower and 284 pound-feet of torque. A close-ratio six-speed manual transmission works alongside a lighter single-mass flywheel, giving the engine a more immediate response. Performance figures include a 4.4-second sprint from 0-60 mph and a 190-mph top speed, while curb weight sits at approximately 2,998 pounds. With just 10,283 miles, this example combines the 996 GT3 RS's homologation roots with one of its less common factory color treatments. Its Mezger flat-six, six-speed manual transmission, lightweight construction, and competition-focused cabin capture the mechanical character that defined Porsche's earliest modern Rennsport models. View Listing Images: Graham Rahal Performance If you're interested in financing any other exotic car, be sure to get pre-qualified.

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By duPont REGISTRY –  September 11, 2026

Elferspot Spotlight: Three Porsches, Three Very Different Kinds of Rare

Rarity gets thrown around a lot in the Porsche world. Almost every listing has a production figure attached somewhere, and some of those figures deserve a raised eyebrow. What we look for at Elferspot is the car where the rare part genuinely matters, where it changes how the car looks, drives or feels to own, and where the paperwork backs it up. This week's three all clear that bar, just from very different directions. One is a 997 you'll spot from the far end of a parking lot. Another is a 993 most people would walk straight past. The third is a RUF so thoroughly personal that you'll either love it on sight or need a minute to work out what you're looking at. 2011 Porsche 911 Carrera GTS in Paint to Sample Riviera Blue GALLERY-EMBED Riviera Blue is what stops you. According to the seller, only five 997 Carrera GTS Coupés were painted in this Paint to Sample color worldwide, and this German-market example still wears its original finish, with an accident-free history and maintenance kept entirely within the Porsche service network. Automotive Passion GmbH in Appen, Germany, is offering it with 121,174 kilometers on the clock, which we'd count in its favor. A PTS GTS that has actually been driven is far easier to enjoy than one that has spent its life as a delivery-mile ornament. The spec behind the paint holds up, too. Porsche introduced the Carrera GTS in 2010 as the bridge between the Carrera S and the GT3, giving it the wider body, center-lock wheels and a naturally aspirated 3.8-liter flat-six rated at 408 PS. This one has the dynamic options you'd hope for, with RS Spyder wheels, Sport Chrono Package Plus, the sports exhaust, PASM and a mechanical limited-slip differential all ticked, while the cabin pairs black full leather with an Alcantara headliner and Porsche Exclusive touches like stainless-steel door sills and embossed crests on the headrests. The caveat is the gearbox. It's PDK, and a good share of 997 buyers will only look at a six-speed manual. If you're not one of them, this is one of the most desirable naturally aspirated Carreras of the generation in a color you'll almost never see twice. View Listing 1995 Porsche 911 Carrera 2 With the Factory X51 3.8-liter Engine GALLERY-EMBED Black, narrow-bodied, no wing. Park this 993 Carrera 2 at any Porsche meet and most people would stroll right past it, which is exactly what makes it fun. Porsche fitted it from new with the X51 factory Motorsport engine package, taking displacement from 3.6 to 3.8 liters and output to 285 PS while keeping the early non-Varioram architecture. The seller, Popea Auto Collec in France, estimates that roughly 80 Carrera 2 X51 cars were built. Treat that number as theirs, but it goes a long way toward explaining why you so rarely see one come up for sale. The rest of the option sheet is unusually serious for a standard-bodied Carrera. Alongside the X51 you get the 033 sports suspension, option 220's 40 percent limited-slip differential, the six-speed G50/21 gearbox and 17-inch Cup wheels, and code 09991 points to Porsche Exclusive involvement. Air conditioning, heated seats and an electric sunroof suggest the first owner wanted the engine without giving up any comfort, which we find oddly charming. Now the honest part. At 209,500 kilometers this car has been used properly, the seller openly acknowledges age-related imperfections in the body, and the chassis now runs Bilstein B16 suspension with reinforced H&R anti-roll bars, a change that will please a driver more than an originality purist. What steadies the picture is the file: a service booklet, invoices from Porsche Centers and recognized specialists, and a recent round of work covering the clutch, brakes at both ends, rear tires, the air-conditioning condenser, plugs and fluids. Just under EUR 100,000 for a matching-numbers X51 manual with that kind of history is hard to argue with. View Listing 2002 RUF 3400S in Light Purple Opal and Amparo Blue GALLERY-EMBED Then there's this. The paint on this RUF 3400S starts in Light Purple Opal at the nose and gradually becomes Amparo Blue Metallic toward the tail, and the idea doesn't stop at the bodywork. The convertible top is purple. The cabin mixes blue leather and Alcantara, the 996 GT3 bucket seat backs are finished in Amparo Blue Metallic, and even the brake calipers follow the progression, purple up front and blue at the rear. According to the listing, the first owner was close to the RUF family and chose the colors as a tribute to her own hair. You can think whatever you like about the result, but nobody can say it was done halfway. Under all that is a proper RUF. The 3400S started from the Boxster concept and moved well beyond it, with a 3.4-liter 996-derived flat-six tuned to around 305 PS, a six-speed manual, upgraded suspension and a dual exhaust. This car adds RUF mirrors, side skirts, 19-inch RUF wheels, a removable rear wing and a 996 GT3 front bumper, and it carries a genuine RUF chassis number, which is the first thing any collector should check. The seller states only twelve 3400S examples were built. It has covered 75,700 miles with three owners, and it comes with invoices, manuals, spare keys and a service record spanning RUF Automobile, Porsche Centers and specialists in the UK, Germany and South Africa, plus a full restoration by Black Falcon in Meuspath between 2015 and 2019 that cost more than EUR 25,000. The obvious caveat is that a specification this personal narrows the pool of buyers to people who truly love it. For the right person, that's the whole point. View Listing

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By duPont REGISTRY –  September 04, 2026

Elferspot Spotlight: Three Porsches That Keep Their Best Details Hidden

Some weeks the three cars line up so neatly you could write the headline before you write the piece. A color story, a Paint to Sample run, a decade. This week refused to cooperate. What came out of the Elferspot listings was a Guards Red air-cooled Turbo, a silver 904 with a competition record most museums would envy, and a black 911 Dakar. On paper, nothing connects them. Spend a few minutes with each one, and the link shows up anyway. Not one of these cars tells you what it is from twenty feet away. The Turbo reads as a nice red 993 until you get into the option codes. The 904 reads as a 904 until you read the entry lists. The Dakar has quietly declined the livery that sells most of them. All three keep the interesting material below the surface, in the paperwork, the build sheet, or the seats, and that is exactly the kind of car worth slowing down for. 1964 Porsche 904 Carrera GTS, Chassis 080 GALLERY-EMBED Chassis 904-080 does not need the usual preamble about why the 904 matters. Gianni Bulgari watched Briggs Cunningham race one at Sebring in early 1964, then bought this car straight from Porsche that spring. Weeks later, he and Maurizio Grana were leading the Targa Florio outright before suspension damage ended the run. Porsche repaired the car at the factory, and in June, Bulgari took it to the old Mugello road circuit and won. There was a win at Vallelunga too, and further podiums, before the car crossed the Atlantic and Sam Posey got hold of it. In February 1966, Posey shared 080 with Jim Haynes and Harry Theodoracopulos for eleventh overall at the Daytona 24 Hours. Racing Sports Cars records period entries at all of it independently, which matters, because history this good is worth checking rather than repeating. The present-day picture is just as interesting. The car has stayed with its current owner since 1988, was inspected by Porsche specialist Jochen Bader in May of this year, and is now European-tax-paid and road registered. It also comes with two engines. A RUF-rebuilt six-cylinder is fitted for use, while the original-style Typ 587/3 four-cam, rebuilt by Dr. Pohl, comes with the car. Be honest about what that means: the four-cam is central to the whole 904 concept, the bonded fiberglass body over a pressed-steel chassis, Porsche's first production car built that way, and the six in the back is a practicality decision rather than a purist one. Some buyers will want it swapped back on day one. Others will drive it exactly as it sits and be glad of it. Porsche records 106 four-cylinder cars, and this is one of the ones with a story attached, so the argument is really about how you plan to use it, not whether it is worth having. View Listing 1995 Porsche 911 Turbo WLS1 GALLERY-EMBED Guards Red on an air-cooled 911 is not news. What sits underneath it here is. This 993 Turbo left the factory in December 1995 with the X50/WLS1 power package, which took the 3.6-liter twin-turbo flat-six to 430 PS through a six-speed manual and all-wheel drive, and Porsche confirms that increase arrived with the 1996 model year. It was then specified further through Porsche Exclusive: XD7 for the front strut brace, XD9 for body-colored wheel centers, X70 for the stainless steel Exclusive door sills, with codes 09971 and 09981 marking the Exclusive build itself. That is a much more deliberate order than a standard Turbo with a power upgrade bolted to it. The seller states 183 factory X50 cars were built. Worth keeping attributed to them rather than treating as a settled production figure. The documentation does real work rather than just filling a folder. The car was collected at the factory in Stuttgart on December 4, 1995, saw early service at Sportwagen-Center Schmidt + Koch in Bremen, and picked up an Approved Used warranty from Porsche Zentrum Hamburg in 1999. Porsche specialists handled it after that; the stamped booklet is still with the car, and a pre-sale service this year included new Michelin Pilot Sports. It shows 108,000 kilometers, has matching numbers, is accident-free, was supplied new in German-market C00 specification, and the seller describes the paint as original. That last point is the one that carries the price, and it is also the one to look at closely in person, because original paint at this mileage is a claim worth verifying with your own eyes. If it holds up, the appeal is straightforward. Factory WLS1, Exclusive specification, matching numbers and original finish rarely turn up in the same car. View Listing 2023 Porsche 911 Dakar GALLERY-EMBED Most Dakars introduce themselves from the far end of the parking lot. This one does not. Finished in plain Black L041 with the Rallye Design graphics left off, it puts the whole job on the raised ride height, the all-terrain tires and the bodywork, and it works. The mechanical package is unchanged: 480 PS from the 3.0-liter twin-turbo flat-six, eight-speed PDK, all-wheel drive, off-road chassis tuning and Pirelli Scorpion All Terrain Plus tires, riding 50 millimeters higher than a Carrera on sports suspension, with another 30 available from the lift system. Production stopped at 2,500. Those numbers are useful here mainly because they explain why a black car with no livery still looks nothing like a regular 992. The restraint stops at the door handle. Inside are carbon full buckets with checked fabric centers, the same material in the door inserts, and sill inscriptions reading "In doubt, never lift" and "Are you sure?". Add the carbon roof, Sport Chrono Plus, PDCC, darkened Matrix LED headlights, heated sports steering wheel, surround-view camera, and roof rack preparation. One owner, German delivery, built in November 2023 as a 2024 model year car, first registered that January, accident-free and matching numbers per the listing, with a fresh service from Porsche Heilbronn in August. The catch, if you want to call it one, is the 11,950 kilometers on the clock, which puts it outside the delivery-mileage bracket collectors tend to chase. I would argue that is the point. This is a Dakar that someone has actually used, kept up to date at Porsche, and specified with a sense of humor rather than a spec sheet aimed at resale. View Listing

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By duPont REGISTRY –  August 21, 2026

Elferspot Spotlight: A Le Mans-Era 904, a Signal Yellow SC Targa and a 230,000 km GT3 RS

Elferspot tends to be at its best when the selection refuses to make a neat argument, and this round is about as broad as the marketplace gets. The Porsche-focused platform pulls collector-grade cars from dealers, specialists and private sellers across Europe and North America, and the three we picked this time sit at wildly different ends of the hobby. One is a seven-figure sports racing car with FIA papers. One is a usable G-Series Targa in a factory color you have probably never seen on one. The third is a modern RS with more miles on it than most family sedans ever see. What ties them together is that each one gets its identity from something other than presentation. The 904 has a competition file and a factory repair history. The SC has a Paint to Sample order sheet. The GT3 RS has fifteen documented dealer services and an odometer that most sellers would rather not talk about. Three cars, three completely different arguments for why a Porsche is worth owning. GALLERY-EMBED This $2.6 million Porsche 904 raced Reims, the Tour de France and Goodwood. Chassis 904-083 is interesting long before the USD 2,600,000 asking price enters the conversation. It went to French Porsche distributor Sonauto in April 1964 and then spent its early years being raced, hard, by Claude Barbier, Valentin Aldy and Cyr Febbraio, turning up at the 12 Hours of Reims, the Rallye des Ardennes and the Tour de France. Animoya Garage in Pontiac, Michigan, now offers the silver Carrera GTS with its FIA Historical Technical Passport and a continuous ownership record backed by period photographs and paperwork. Historic use continued well past the sixties, including outings at the Goodwood Revival and Tour Auto. That competition life is also why 083 is not an untouched early 904, and the listing is upfront about it. After an accident the car went back to the factory, which fitted a replacement chassis and body while retaining the engine, gearbox and running gear. It then took on the later Series 2 updates, and the seller states that only ten cars were converted in period. The fiberglass body was sympathetically restored in the 1990s after decades in Germany. The matching-numbers two-liter four-cam engine and gearbox are still with the car, though a 904/6 specification six-cylinder is currently installed so the car can be driven and competed while the original unit is preserved separately. Worth remembering what the 904 represented: it was Porsche's first production model with a fiberglass-reinforced plastic body and a key step toward the purpose-built mid-engined racers that followed. Buy this one for the history file, not for originality-purist bragging rights. View Listing GALLERY-EMBED Was this the only Porsche 911 SC Targa painted Signal Yellow? Color changes an SC Targa more than it has any right to, especially when the color came from the factory. This 1982 Canadian-delivery car was ordered Paint to Sample in Signal Yellow 1YH over black leatherette, and Scan Automotive in North Vancouver believes it may be the only SC Targa built in that shade. Take that claim as the dealer's read rather than documented fact, but the PTS order itself is the part that matters, and it gives the car an identity the moment you walk up to it. Three owners, matching numbers, 135,200 kilometers, USD 94,000. The order sheet had more on it than the paint. A 930 rear spoiler was specified from new and still comes with the car, although a standard engine lid is fitted at the moment. Silver 15-inch Fuchs, a stainless Targa bar and chrome brightwork give it an odd and rather appealing mix of late G-Series mechanicals with earlier visual cues. Changes since delivery are minor and easy to undo: a Momo Prototipo wheel, a Bluetooth-capable radio, Rest-of-World rear bumperettes. Mechanically, this is the mature SC, the 3.0-liter in its final 204 PS European specification with a manual gearbox and rear-wheel drive, up from 180 PS and then 188 PS earlier in the run. The one thing missing is paperwork. The listing does not publish a detailed service chronology, and at this money you would want to see one. This is a driver's G-Series Targa with an unusual order sheet, not a preservation-grade car, and it is priced and presented accordingly. View Listing GALLERY-EMBED 143,000 Miles in a GT3 RS? Porsche still gave it an approved warranty. Almost every 991 GT3 RS listing opens with how little the car has been used. This Lava Orange example does the opposite and leads with 230,884 kilometers, which is roughly 143,000 miles in a car most owners treat as a weekend appointment. Jurjens Automotive in Meppel, the Netherlands, is asking EUR 129,900. Two owners, accident-free, matching numbers, and here is the part that makes it work: every recorded service was carried out by authorized Porsche dealers, and the car is still covered by Porsche Approved warranty through April 2027. The service file is what turns that odometer reading from alarming into genuinely compelling. Fifteen Porsche dealer visits are listed between January 2016 and May 2025, starting at 10 kilometers and running through 219,991. The specification is serious too, with PCCB ceramic brakes, front-axle lift, rear-axle steering, PASM, Porsche Torque Vectoring Plus, carbon buckets, the Clubsport Package, Sport Chrono, black PDLS+ LED headlights and a lot of carbon trim, currently on Pirelli P Zero Corsa N2 tires. Underneath it all is the first-generation 991 RS package as Porsche launched it in 2015: naturally aspirated 4.0-liter flat-six, 500 PS, seven-speed PDK, magnesium roof, carbon body panels, 918 Spyder-derived buckets, 3.3 seconds to 100 km/h. Be clear-eyed about what high mileage does to resale on a car like this, because the next buyer will price it the same way you are. But if you want an RS to drive rather than store, this is the one in the market that has already proven the concept works. View Listing

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By duPont REGISTRY –  August 06, 2026

Elferspot Spotlight: A Restored 993, a Preserved 356, and a Manual Boxster S

Elferspot has a habit of lining up cars that share almost nothing and letting the range itself be the story. That is what this spotlight does. The Porsche-focused marketplace pulls collector-grade cars from dealers, specialists, and private sellers across Europe and the US, and the three we picked this time cover more than fifty years of the brand, three very different price points, and three completely different reasons to buy. One is a fully restored wide-body air-cooled 911 in a color made for the 993. One is an unusually original early 356 with a family history and a movie to go with it. And one is a preserved, manual, limited-edition Boxster S that costs a fraction of the other two. Air-cooled icon, historical centerpiece, accessible wildcard.  GALLERY-EMBED 1995 Porsche 911 Carrera 4S The 993 Carrera 4S is one of the most recognizable shapes in the air-cooled catalog, and this German-delivered 1995 example wears it well. Finished in Arena Red Metallic over full Classic Gray leather, it carries the wide Turbo body, the Turbo braking system and the continuous rear reflector, but with the 285-horsepower naturally aspirated 3.6-liter flat-six, all-wheel drive and none of the Turbo's fixed wing. It has covered 138,500 kilometers across three owners, it is matching numbers, and BEMA Vitesse is offering it in Saint-Michel-sur-Orge, France for EUR 124,980. The color and the proportions do the hooking here. Arena Red over gray is about as 993 as a color combination gets. What gives the listing weight beyond the paint is the work behind it. After the current owner bought the car in 2020 it went through an extensive mechanical and cosmetic restoration, with the engine and transmission pulled, the clutch, shocks, hoses and belts replaced, the braking system rebuilt with new discs, pads and lines, and several suspension components renewed. The body was fully repainted, the wheels refinished, and the glass, headlights and exterior trim replaced, all backed by invoices from late 2020. Factory specification runs to the M033 sports chassis, M220 limited-slip differential, ABD, heated electric comfort seats and even the original CR-21 radio. Be clear-eyed about what this is. It is a fully prepared, repainted 4S rather than an untouched preservation car, which is exactly the point for a buyer who would rather someone else had already spent the money. View Listing GALLERY-EMBED 1953 Porsche 356 Pre-A 1500 “Number 27” If the 4S is the recognizable one, this is the car with the story. It is a 1953 356 Pre-A 1500, a bent-window coupé finished in beige over beige cloth, and it is known as Number 27. Sold new on November 4, 1953 by Jack McAfee Motors in Los Angeles, it went to Gordon Sheldon, a draftsman for Boeing and Rocketdyne who used it as a family daily driver and ran it in time trials and rallies. He was the 27th member of the Porsche Owners Club, which is where the cast-aluminum 27 plate that still travels with the car comes from, along with a pair of period autocross flags. The car stayed in the family from new until 2016, was parked in 1974, and spent the decades since in dry California storage. Its history was documented in the 2018 film 27, which reunited it with Sheldon's wife Lois. It is offered privately in Islip, New York for USD 250,000. The appeal here is continuity rather than concours. The body tub retains its original sheet metal with no stated panel, rust or accident repair, the car is matching numbers throughout, and even the original 16-inch wheels survive, kept aside on period tires while reproduction wheels carry it today. More than a thousand hours went into a documented mechanical recommissioning, logged through typed work sheets and receipts, and the car still comes with its manuals, tool kit, jack, measuring stick and period literature. The 1.5-liter flat-four makes just 55 horsepower, but output was never the point of a car like this. What matters is that this is a Pre-A, built before Porsche revised the 356 into the A, with the narrow body, bent windshield and early interior to prove it, and a paper trail almost no survivor of this age can match. This is the historical centerpiece of the group, and the one with real feature potential. View Listing GALLERY-EMBED 2009 Porsche Boxster S Porsche Design Edition 2 Every good spotlight needs a car you could actually reach, and this is it. The 2009 Boxster S Porsche Design Edition 2 was a limited-run appearance package built on the 987-generation Boxster S, and this one is finished in the Carrara White that anchored the Edition 2's monochromatic look. It is a proper enthusiast specification too. The 3.4-liter naturally aspirated flat-six, 303 horsepower, rear-wheel drive and a six-speed manual, with no automatic to dilute it. First registered in April 2009, it has covered 56,863 kilometers and is offered by dls automobile in Fellbach, Germany for EUR 52,987, which puts it in a completely different room from the other two. The dealer describes it as fully documented, accident-free and free from any repainting, garage-kept, never smoked in and never used through winter or in bad weather, with no deferred maintenance and a condition it rates as close to new. Take the broad strokes rather than the superlatives. There are no individual service dates, no ownership sequence and no detailed option list quoted, so the honest hook is the preservation and the original paint, not a provenance file. On that basis it still makes a strong case. A limited-edition, manual, naturally aspirated Boxster S in original paint and clearly cared-for condition, for under EUR 55,000, is the kind of smart classic that tends to look obvious a few years later. View Listing

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By Edward Jones –  July 29, 2026

Elferspot Spotlight: Three Porsches That Wear Their Color Differently

Elferspot, part of duPont REGISTRY Group, has a knack for surfacing the Porsches that reward a second look, and this round hides its hand behind color. The Porsche-focused marketplace gathers collector-grade cars from dealers, specialists, and private sellers, and the listings that stand out tend to earn it on documentation and specification rather than a pretty paint job alone. On the surface, the three we picked this time look like a color story. Look closer, and the color means something completely different on each one. One is a Jungle Green 993 that Porsche itself owned and used to develop the shades of the generation that came next. Another is a Speed Yellow 997.2 GT3 RS ordered Paint to Sample, one of two the seller knows of in North America. The third is a 930 wearing an orange it was not born in, and wearing it well. Factory secret, dream-spec RS, orange outlier. Here's why each one is worth your attention. 1997 Porsche 911 Carrera 2 GALLERY-EMBED Plenty of 993s get sold on rare color. This one gets sold on why it wears the color it does. Before the air-cooled 993 gave way to the water-cooled 996, Porsche AG kept this 1997 Carrera 2 as a factory color development car, a Farbmusterfahrzeug, and used it to trial finishes for the generation that was coming. Its Jungle Green Metallic paint and Natural Brown full leather were both being prepared for the Type 996, and the car's official Porsche Production Specification says exactly that. The original German Fahrzeugbrief was issued to Porsche AG itself. The history file carries the original service book with nine documented entries, maintenance invoices, inspection reports from Germany, Austria and France, two keys and the original document wallet. Porsche Classic went through the car in June 2026, fitting new dampers, aligning the suspension and completing a pre-purchase inspection. It is described as accident-free, though the seller is upfront that several panels have been cosmetically refinished over the years. Mechanically, it is the good version of the late 993 formula: matching numbers, the 285 PS 3.6-liter air-cooled flat-six, a six-speed manual and rear-wheel drive, with M033 sport suspension and an M220 limited-slip differential already ticked on the options list. It shows 117,000 kilometers and is offered by Carrera Sport Classics in Schoten, Belgium, with the price on application. You are not really buying a color here. You are buying the reason the color exists. View Listing 2011 Porsche 911 GT3 RS GALLERY-EMBED If the 993 is about history, this one is about the last of a very specific breed. The 997.2 GT3 RS is the final GT3 RS built around the Mezger engine, and it still has hydraulic steering, a manual gearbox, and the compact footprint that the bigger, more digital RS models traded away. That is most of the reason these have held their value the way they have. This one adds the part that photographs: Paint to Sample Speed Yellow with black RS graphics, which the seller counts as one of only two known 997.2 GT3 RS finished this way in North America. The color does not stop at the panels. Inside the black leather and Alcantara cabin, Speed Yellow turns up on the seatbelts, the harness openings, the steering-wheel center marker, the stitching and the door pulls, tying the whole thing together. Sport bucket seats, the PCCB ceramic brakes, carbon trim, embossed crests on the headrests and raised Porsche script on the console lid round out the specification. The naturally aspirated 3.8-liter flat-six makes 450 horsepower through a six-speed manual, the only gearbox offered. The odometer reads 8,040 miles, and the honest note is that the listing leans on that number and the specification rather than a documented ownership and service record, so a buyer will want to build that picture out. Ryan Friedman Motor Cars has the car in Glen Cove, New York, with the price on application. View Listing 1980 Porsche 911 Turbo 3.3 GALLERY-EMBED Every one of these selections needs a car you buy to drive, not to stare at, and here it is. This 1980 930 is a German-market Turbo 3.3, which means it left the factory without the sunroof or air conditioning fitted as standard in a lot of other markets, and it is the more focused for it. The Continental Orange it wears now is not its birth color. It was Copper Brown Metallic when it was delivered through Porsche Germany in January 1980, but the orange is a correct period shade, code 107, and it draws an obvious line back to the Jägermeister 934s that were tearing up grids at the time. The dark brown leather, carpet and headlining underneath are all original. What makes this one usable rather than precious is the recent work. The matching-numbers engine and four-speed gearbox are still together, and in late 2018 the engine and turbocharger were fully rebuilt as a precaution, with the clutch, heat exchangers, front brake discs, pads and tIres all done at the same time. A pre-sale service has just been carried out on top of that, and the car is said to have no mechanical modifications or performance changes, which is exactly what you want on a 930 you actually intend to use. It shows 130,600 kilometers. Sports Purpose in Bicester sold the car to its current owner in 2020 and is now offering it again on their behalf, at GBP 140,000. This is the one to buy if you would rather drive to the event than trailer to it. View Listing

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By Khris Bharath –  July 13, 2026

1-of-8 Racing Yellow Porsche 918 Spyder Listed on duPont REGISTRY

A 2015 Porsche 918 Spyder, finished in a striking Racing Yellow over a Mocha Brown leather interior, is now available through duPont REGISTRY Select, the brand's curated inventory of verified, hand-selected vehicles. Believed to be one of only eight examples finished in Racing Yellow across the entire 918-unit production run in Zuffenhausen over a 21-month production run, and reportedly, this is the only example configured with a Mocha Brown interior, making it among the rarest known specifications of Porsche's Holy Trinity hybrid hypercar, which also includes the McLaren P1 and the Ferrari LaFerrari.  Power comes from a naturally aspirated 4.6-liter V8 that produces 599 horsepower, with dual electric motors adding a further 288 horsepower for a combined system output of 887 horsepower and 944 pound-feet of torque. The result: a supercar that can hit 60 mph in 2.6 seconds and a Weissach-equipped example set the Nürburgring lap record for street-legal production cars back in September 2013, completing the 12.9-mile circuit in 6 minutes and 57 seconds, the first production car to break the 7-minute barrier.  As our 918 Spyder Market Spotlight detailed, rare color and interior configurations are where momentum is building in this market. The point was proved definitively at Mecum Kissimmee 2026, where a 1-of-1 Paint-to-Sample Pure Orange example sold for $5,500,000, resetting what exceptional specification commands at auction.  <- Gallery -> Silver has traditionally dominated the order books, but this example's Racing Yellow specification (one of 12 factory colors), offset here by the warmth of the Mocha Brown cabin (one of 7 factory interior colors), makes this one of the most visually distinctive examples in the production run. The acid green brake calipers and accents are the 918's own visual signature for the brand's e-Hybrid tech. This also applies to the Carrera GT market, and more recently, we also spotlighted a Fayence Yellow Carrera GT to highlight how color rarity within a small overall production is driving prices. For a deeper look at how the 918 compares to its Porsche predecessor, our Carrera GT vs. 918 Spyder comparison covers both in detail.  This particular car also prominently featured recently on our list of the Most Expensive Porsches of all time. Click the link below to view the full specification, mileage, pricing, and additional photographs of this highly collectible 918 Spyder.  View Listing  

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