By duPont REGISTRY
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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
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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.
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1996 Porsche 911 GT2
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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.
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2018 Porsche 911 GT2 RS Weissach
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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.
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