A hundred cars for a hundred years, and a postcode requirement
Order books open this month on the 911 GT3 100 Jahre Nürburgring, which is the point at which this stops being a show car and starts being a thing people are actually buying. Porsche revealed it on 14 August 2026, timed for the circuit's hundredth birthday. It is a run of 100 cars and it is a market edition, which is the polite term for the part that will annoy most of you: it is sold in Germany only.
The car itself is a 992.2 GT3, which means the 4.0 litre naturally aspirated flat six, 502 hp, 450 Nm, 0 to 100 km/h in 3.4 seconds and 311 km/h, on either the seven speed PDK or the six speed manual. Porsche has not quoted separate figures for the edition, and there is no reason to expect any: nothing here is an engine change.
What you actually get
- Paint: White or GT Silver Metallic
- Green: a wrapped front section and rear trim, a reference to the Nordschleife's Green Hell nickname, plus green tow lugs front and rear
- Start number: any number from 0 to 999, on the bonnet, the doors and the rear window
- Wheels: 20 and 21 inch forged aluminium in California Gold
- Roll cage: green
- Seats: black leather and Race-Tex, with green perforation on the driver's side
- Door projectors: the outline of the Nürburgring circuit
- Manthey Kit: optional, colour matched, and worth 540 kg of downforce at 285 km/h
- A watch: a matching Porsche Design Chronograph 1 in a titanium case
Robert Ader, CEO of Porsche Deutschland, said there is "a little bit of Nürburgring in every Porsche," which is the sort of line a market edition exists to justify. Porsche has not published a price.
The start number is the good idea
Most anniversary editions are a paint code and a plaque. The number is the exception here, because it is the one thing on the car the owner chooses and the one thing that will still matter in twenty years. Nought to 999 is a wide enough field that no two of the hundred need to clash, and it turns a trim package into something closer to a commission.
The green is doing more work than the usual accent stripe too. It is not a pinstripe, it is the whole front section, so the car reads green from the front three-quarter and white from behind the front wheel. On a GT3 that already has a fixed wing and a swan neck, the effect is closer to a period race livery than a modern special.
What it says about market editions
Porsche has been running these for a while now, and they are worth understanding for what they are. A market edition is not built because the engineers found more performance. It is built because a national sales company has a centenary in its diary and 100 customers who will take a GT3 either way. The Manthey Kit is the only thing on the list that changes how the car goes, and you can buy that for any GT3.
None of which makes it a bad car. It is a GT3, so it is one of the two or three best driving things on sale, and it is a GT3 with a livery that makes sense rather than one invented in a marketing meeting. It is just worth being clear that the hundred is about the calendar rather than the engineering.
Orders open in September 2026. Deliveries run through 2027, which is the anniversary year itself, the Nürburgring having opened in 1927.
The take
The right car, the right circuit, the right year, and a distribution decision that makes it invisible to almost everyone reading this. If you live in Germany and were going to order a GT3 anyway, this is the one to order. If you do not, the consolation is that the only part worth having, the Manthey Kit, was never exclusive to it.
Sources: Porsche, "Porsche pays tribute to 100 years of the Nürburgring with a market edition 911 GT3", 14 August 2026. GT3 performance figures: Revline Drive model data. Photograph: Porsche.