The 2026 Porsche 911 Carrera T Club Coupe Is a 70th Anniversary Love Letter to Porsche Club of America
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.
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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!
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