Porsche 911 Club Coupe – Collector’s Choice!

German luxury automaker Porsche has unveiled its 911 Club Coupe and hopes that it won’t be just any special-edition car. The customised 911 Club Coupe — based on the 911 Carrera S — goes on sale this summer with a run of only 13 units, and the owner roster is only open to Porsche Club members.

The first Porsche owners clubs was formed in Germany in 1952, and in the 60 years since some 1, 81,000 members have joined the rolls of clubs around the world. As a thank you of sorts to all those people, Porsche will build 13 special edition 911s and sell them exclusively to the Porsche club members.

The car is called the 911 Club Coupe, and it’s based on the 911 Carrera S coupe. Porsche have added a dash of power (total horsepower is up to 430, as opposed to 400 in the 911 Carrera S), and all manner of exclusive design tweaks. All 911 Club Coupes will have the Sport Design Package, sit on 20-inch Sport Techno wheels, and wear a new shade of Brewster Green paint.

Porsche also promises to finish each of the 13 Club Coupes with illuminated door sills that have the 60^th anniversary and 911 Club Coupe logos, and customer cars will also have trim pieces with screened lettering that bears the owner’s name. Inside, Porsche will allegedly reach deep into its Porsche Exclusive custom catalog to spruce up the interior, but the company refrains from detailing its interior revisions.

Sadly, obtaining one of those 13 is not going to be as easy as walking into your local Porsche dealer and cutting a check for a green 911 Carrera. One car of the 13-car run will stay with Porsche, probably to perform museum duty, so only 12 will be sold. Those 12 units are allocated only for Porsche Club members, and potential owners must put their names into an online lottery to determine just who will get the cars. Each of the 12 owners must then cough up well over one crore rupees for the privilege of owning the car. Then again, it’s hard to put a price on exclusivity.