A GT3 you can only buy in the mountains
Porsche announced the 911 GT3 Bergsport on 1 September 2026. It is a market edition, which is Porsche's term for a car built for specific countries rather than the world, and the countries here are Austria, France, Italy and Switzerland. There are 100 of them.
The name is the giveaway. Bergsport is hill climbing, and Porsche tied the launch to it directly: the car premiered on 3 September at the Arosa ClassicCar hill climb in Switzerland, with brand ambassador Jörg Bergmeister driving.
The paint is the point
The colour, Valleygreenmetallic, was developed for this car and comes through Paint to Sample Plus. Porsche describes it as capturing the deep greens and earthy tones of the mountains, with gold metallic particles in it.
Against that go forged aluminium wheels in satin White Gold and Ceramica and orange brake calipers, which is a combination Porsche has not offered before on a GT3.
The specification is the interesting part
This is not a colour pack. The Bergsport comes with the Lightweight Package and carbon-fibre bucket seats, and a six-speed manual gearbox rather than PDK, which for a hill-climb tribute is the right answer and increasingly a rare one.
Also standard: HD-Matrix LED headlights, the front axle lift system, and the 90-litre fuel tank, the last of which matters more on an Alpine pass than on a track.
Porsche does not restate the engine anywhere in the release, and nothing in it suggests a change to the GT3's 4.0-litre flat-six.
What Porsche has not said
No price, no output figure, and no indication of whether any of the 100 remain unsold. Given four markets and a hundred cars, that last one answers itself.
Sources: The GT3 Bergsport: a tribute to Alpine driving (Porsche Newsroom, September 1, 2026). Porsche published no press images with the release, so the photograph is our own 911 render.