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Motor Trend
07-07-2025
- Automotive
- Motor Trend
The 2026 Porsche 911 Carrera T Club Coupe Is a 70th Anniversary Love Letter to Porsche Club of America
It's fun to be in a club. You find community among like-minded folks who share your passion. Car clubs are no exception, and the likely biggest single-manufacturer club in North America is the Porsche Club of America. To celebrate 70 years of PCA, Porsche has built the limited-edition 2026 Porsche 911 Carrera T Club Coupe. Other clubs get branded t-shirts and hats. You Porsche folks get this—well, the opportunity to buy this, it's not free. Porsche celebrates 70 years of the Porsche Club of America with a limited-edition 2026 911 Carrera T Club Coupe. Featuring unique styling and exclusive features, only 70 units will be made, offered first to PCA members. Pricing is unannounced, but expected to exceed the 2025 Carrera T's base price. This summary was generated by AI using content from this MotorTrend article Read Next Based on the lightweight 911 Carrera T, the Club Coupe's hardware remains unchanged. So there's a 388-hp twin-turbo flat-six, six-speed manual transmission with a sweet walnut wood shift knob, mechanical limited-slip differential with Porsche Torque Vectoring, 10-mm lower ride height, and PASM Sport Suspension. Other standard features include rear-axle steering and the Sport Chrono package. Visually, though, there are a ton of Club notes. First, the cars have a Paint to Sample Sholar Blue finish, which is a new metallic interpretation of a Club Blau paint that had been used on a past PCA Club Coupe car. The Carrera T's gray wing mirrors are also swapped out in favor of blue ones. Staggered 20- and 21-inch RS Spyder wheels in black with silver accents further bring up the visual flair. A red-accented front fascia and red grille slat inlays, along with silver Club Coupe door logos and a rear decal combine with everything else as a nod to the signature PCA colors. To tie it all together, the grille wears a "70 year PCA" badge to signify the occasion. The mostly black standard leather interior wears Speed Blue and Guards Red stitching. A door projector beams the PCA 70 year logo onto the ground, and illuminated door sills read "Porsche Club of America." Finally the PCA 70 year logo is again repeated as the embossed surface of the center console lid, as well as the Club Coupe logo for the dashboard trim. Should customers want more, they can optionally spring for an extended equipment package, pictured here. This includes PCA 70-specific tartan seat fabric centers, Speed Blue cabin stitching, Guards Red leather seat release pull loops, and Speed Blue stitching and "Club Coupe 70 Years Porsche Club of America" embossing for the owner's manual cover. They'll even do up your key for you: Painted Sholar Blue, it'll have its own little black leather key pouch that uses Speed Blue stitching and Club Coupe logo embossment. Porsche is only building 70 of these cars and will offer them to PCA members first. No pricing was announced at this time, though base 2025 Carrera T pricing ranges from $135,995 to $149,295, so you can safely assume a bit more than that. Production is expected to start in the fall and last through next spring. This 2026 model marks the third PCA Club Coupe model the automaker has offered. The first was in 2005 with a 911 Carrera S Club Coupe and the second was in 2015 with the 911 Carrera GTS Club Coupe. Both were also built in extremely limited numbers. Which totally makes sense, by the way. We imagine the number of non-Club buyers for this very, very Club-specific model is pretty tiny (well, outside of speculators). But there are plenty of potential customers, because according to a PCA Facebook post from the start of this year, membership has swelled to more than 167,000 people. Queue up, chaps, for your chance to buy the blue car you can then rub in all your non-Club friends' faces!
Car and Driver
07-07-2025
- Automotive
- Car and Driver
2026 Porsche 911 Club Coupe Is a 70th Anniversary Love Letter
Porsche has announced a limited-edition 911 Club Coupe model as a 70th anniversary gift to the Porsche Club of America. Based on the 911 Carrera T, the Club Coupe features a 388-hp flat-six, a six-speed manual, and an array of bespoke styling elements. The 2026 Porsche 911 Club Coupe will be limited to just 70 models, with PCA members getting exclusive dibs. Owning a Porsche and owning a Nissan are two wildly different experiences. Versas are great, but you aren't nearly as likely to have a well-dressed and knowledgeable enthusiast hovering around your engine bay asking impossibly niche questions from time to time. The Porsche Club of America has been bringing those kinds of diehard Stuttgart loyalists together for 70 years now, and Porsche is rewarding their unbridled passion with a new limited-edition 911 Club Coupe model. Porsche This isn't the first time that the PCA has been gifted an exclusive anniversary model. It has happened twice before, first with a 997.1 Club Coupe for the group's 50th anniversary and then with a 991-based GTS Club Coupe for its 60th. The newest example is based on the 2026 911 Carrera T, which will undoubtedly be a popular choice among the purists. The standard Carrera T's 388-hp flat-six powertrain and six-speed manual transmission carry over to the 2026 Porsche 911 Club Coupe unchanged, gorgeous walnut shifter and all. While output remains consistent, a mechanical limited-slip differential and sport suspension with a 0.4-inch lower ride height than a standard 911 should bolster the Club Coupe's canyon-crushing capabilities. Porsche's Sport Chrono package, rear-axle steering, a PASM Active Suspension Management adaptive damping setup, and a sport exhaust are also included. Porsche The Club Coupe is finished in bespoke Sholar Blue paint, accented with Brilliant Silver badging and Guards Red grille-slat inlays—a combo of hues that pays homage to the PCA's signature colors. Satin black 20-inch front and 21-inch rear RS Spyder wheels with silver spokes round out the exterior changes. If the Porsche Club connection wasn't clear from the door decals or grille badge, illuminated "Porsche Club of America" door sills give one last reminder before stepping inside. A black leather interior with Speed Blue and Guard Red stitching comes standard, but most examples will probably be outfitted with the optional extended equipment package that adds PCA-themed tartan seat inlays. Porsche Porsche Unless you're either a high-ranking or an extremely lucky member of the Porsche Club of America, the 911 Club Coupe is out of reach: only 70 examples will roll out of Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen, with one remaining in Porsche's possession and another being raffled off to a fortunate PCA member. The other 68 examples will be offered up for sale exclusively to club members. Porsche hasn't yet released any pricing information for the new Club Coupe, but one thing is certain: it'll cost a whole lot more than the PCA's $56 yearly membership fee. Austin Parsons Associate Editor Austin's car fixation began at a young age and at 1:64 scale. Eventually, Hot Wheels weren't cutting it anymore, so he developed an obsession with his father's full-sized 1965 Ford Mustang instead. Desperate to break into the automotive industry, he bartered his way into a job at a local BMW dealership by promising to stop hurling nerdy technical facts at the salesmen who came into the neighboring coffee shop where he worked. That was also around the time when he started writing automotive reviews, news articles, and technical guides for a number of local and international publications. Now at Car and Driver, Austin brings more than 10 years of experience in the automotive industry and an all-so-common love-hate relationship with German engineering to the table. Read full bio
Yahoo
07-07-2025
- Automotive
- Yahoo
See the 2026 Porsche 911 Club Coupe from Every Angle
Porsche has revealed the third of its 911 Club Coupe special edition models. The 2026 911 Club Coupe is based on the 992.2-generation 911 Carrera T, and wears a bespoke paint job consisting of a Paint to Sample shade called Sholar Blue with red and silver accents. Inside, red-white-and-blue tartan upholstery is available. Only 70 examples of this 911 will be built, with production starting this fall and running through the spring of next year. Pricing is yet to be announced, but only Porsche Club of America members will be eligible to buy one at Might Also Like You Need a Torque Wrench in Your Toolbox Tested: Best Car Interior Cleaners The Man Who Signs Every Car Sign in to access your portfolio
