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Porsche’s 'Land Down Under' 911 Turbo S Celebrates 75 Years in Australia

By Khris Bharath –  August 06, 2026

Porsche’s Land Down Under 911 Turbo S Celebrates 75 Years in Australia

Porsche Cars Australia has revealed a one-off 911 Turbo S created through the Sonderwunsch program to mark 75 years of the marque in Australia, with its design drawing from the country’s landscapes, colors, and southern sky. Named the 911 Turbo S Land Down Under, the car was developed by Porsche Sonderwunsch, the Style Porsche design team, and Sydney-based contemporary artist Werner Bronkhorst. Its centerpiece is a hand-applied Chromaflair gradient inspired by an Australian outback sunset, transitioning from Terra Australis Red across the lower body to Southern Cross Blue above the shoulder line. “The goal with our Sonderwunsch programme is to translate highly personal dreams into automotive reality” - Alexander Fabig, Vice President Product and Individualisation Offering at Porsche AG. Porsche has a long history with this bespoke work, and you can see the same paint technology on the Chromaflair Turbo S it showed at Fuori Concorso back in 2024. For this latest commission, both colors were developed exclusively for the commission, making this the first Porsche in Australia to feature two newly created Chromaflair finishes.  The pigments use ultra-thin flakes with reflective aluminum cores encased in transparent, glass-like layers, allowing the paint to shift between desert orange, blue, eucalyptus green, and gold depending on the light and viewing angle. Applied across seven layers, the finish required more than 300 hours of work by hand. A subtle ghosting technique reveals the number 75 within the roof paint using Bronkhorst’s own font, while the phrase “See ya later mate” is hidden beneath the rear spoiler. The message becomes visible only when Sport Plus mode is engaged, or the rear wing deploys automatically above 80 km/h (50mph).  <- Gallery -> Inside, Dark Night Blue leather pairs with Coolibah Brown, a bespoke shade developed specifically for the project. Hand-finished Australian Silky Oak wood appears across the dashboard and rear-seat inlays, while topographical contour graphics of the Blue Mountains are printed across the upper dashboard and side trim. The roof lining carries an embroidered map of the Southern Hemisphere sky exactly as it appeared over Uluru in 1951, the year Porsche first arrived in Australia. Uluru, also known as Ayers Rock, sits in the desolate outback of the Northern Territory.  The 18-way Adaptive Sports Seats Plus feature 14,417 individually positioned perforations arranged to echo the texture of Bronkhorst’s brushstrokes, while the headrests are embossed with a 75 Years Porsche in Australia motif. Bronkhorst also created a series of miniature artworks depicting Australian fauna and human-inspired motifs, placing them in unexpected spots throughout the cabin, the bodywork and the Fuchs-style center-lock wheels. The approach turns the car into something that reveals more of its story the longer it is examined. Underneath the bespoke paint sits the 992.2-generation 911 Turbo S, identifiable by the vertical slats in its front bumper intakes and positioned at the top of the contemporary 911 range. Its twin-turbocharged flat-six combined with Porsche T-Hybrid tech sends 701 horsepower to all four wheels through an eight-speed PDK, allowing for a new Nürburgring time of 7:03.92, which is 14 seconds quicker than its predecessor. This one-off commission builds on what is the most powerful production 911 built to date. View All Porsche 911s for Sale Images: Porsche

The Last Porsche 911 GT2 To Offer A Manual Transmission

By Khris Bharath –  June 19, 2026

The Last Porsche 911 GT2 To Offer A Manual Transmission

 Porsche built its last manual GT2 in 2010, closing out a tradition that began with the original 993 GT2 in the mid-1990s. Every GT2 that followed, the 996, the 997.1, and finally the 997.2, kept the same six-speed manual gearbox with no automated alternative offered to collectors. That final car also carried the RS badge, the first time Porsche had attached it to a GT2 at all, and the manual gearbox left the lineup the moment that badge reappeared on the next generation. Under the engine cover sat a 3.6-liter twin-turbocharged flat-six built on Porsche's Mezger architecture, the same race-derived engine family that powered the 962 Group C car, the 911 GT1. That same architecture made its final appearance in naturally aspirated form in the 997 GT3 RS 4.0 as the last production Porsche with a Mezger flat-six engine. It produced 620 horsepower and 516 pound-feet of torque, sent to the rear wheels exclusively through a six-speed manual gearbox paired with a single-mass flywheel.  Porsche chose the lighter flywheel specifically to cut weight, a decision that also made the clutch take-up noticeably firmer than on a standard car. That sharper power delivery and rear-engine turbo character is exactly what earned the GT2 lineage its "widowmaker" nickname, a reputation that started with the original 993 GT2 and followed every manual GT2 through this one. That single-mass flywheel was one piece of a broader weight reduction program. Carbon fiber front fenders and hood, a plastic rear window, centerlock wheels, lighter carpeting, and an optional lithium-ion battery combined to shave over 150 pounds from the standard GT2. The finished car weighed 3,021 pounds, reached 60 miles per hour in 3.5 seconds, and topped out at 205 miles per hour. <- Gallery -> Porsche limited production of the 997 GT2 RS to 500 units worldwide, with only 132 of those delivered to the United States through Porsche Cars North America. That allocation makes it a genuinely scarce car within its primary collector market. The car backed up its straight-line numbers with a Nurburgring Nordschleife lap of 7 minutes and 18 seconds, a time that beat the Carrera GT. Everything changed when the 991-generation GT2 RS arrived in 2017. The shift away from three pedals was not a matter of available tech, since the contemporary 997.2 Turbo had already offered PDK as an option the same year the GT2 RS launched. Porsche chose to keep the manual on its hardest GT2 anyway, then reversed that decision entirely for the next generation, moving the GT2 RS exclusively to a seven-speed PDK dual-clutch transmission. Frank-Steffen Walliser, head of Porsche Motorsport and GT cars at the time, said the manual was never seriously considered for that generation of the car. That same logic carried through the 991.2 GT2 RS and is expected to continue with the next 992-based version of the car. Porsche reserves its three-pedal option for the GT3 lineup, where lower power figures and a naturally aspirated engine make a manual gearbox a more practical fit for everyday driving. That divide leaves the 997 GT2 RS in a category of one within its own lineage. It remains the only GT2 RS variant a collector can buy with a manual gearbox, built in a run of just 500 examples between 2010 and 2011, and powered by the last Mezger-based engine Porsche ever put in a GT2. View All 997 Porsche 911 GT2 RS' Ford Sale Images: Porsche

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