The Porsche 911 Carrera T Is A Lighter, Faster, Manual-Shifting Thrill-Seeker

Porsche has played with the 911's spec sheet to create the 911 Carrera Touring, with a slight weight reduction and shorter gear ratios for performance that errs on the side of empty-road awesomeness

Porsche has revealed a stripped-out, faster 911 called the Carrera T. Reviving a badge first seen on a 911 in 1968, the Carrera T, or Touring, has just two seats in the name of weight reduction (bro).

You’ll also find nylon door-opening loops instead of proper handles, plus thinner, lighter glass for the rear windscreen and side-rear panes. There’s less soundproofing material throughout, and you can remove the Porsche Communication Management system for an extra chunk off. Note the gaping centre console hole in the pic further down the page.

No Bluetooth also gives you another excuse not to answer the phone when you’re out in the Carrera T for a morning hoon.

The Porsche 911 Carrera T Is A Lighter, Faster, Manual-Shifting Thrill-Seeker

The net weight loss is only actually 20kg, which is about a quarter of an average passenger. The engine is the same as that in the base 911 Carrera, so that’s a 365bhp turbocharged flat-six measuring 3.0 litres in displacement. Power to weight rises 3.5bhp per tonne, from 252.6bhp to 256.1bhp.

Torque is again identical, at 332lb ft between 1750 and 5000rpm. Of course, one of the best things about this engine is that, unlike a lot of its turbo’d equivalents, it still likes to be revved hard and happily tips its cap to a lead-footed driver.

The Porsche 911 Carrera T Is A Lighter, Faster, Manual-Shifting Thrill-Seeker

Interestingly, the Carrera T swaps the regular car’s seven gear ratios for shorter ones for the first few cogs, which gives it a little more zest off the line. The slight weight cut alone isn’t enough to make the car measurably faster, but with shorter ratios in the manual gearbox (hooray!) it’s a cheeky tenth of a second quicker to 62mph, at 4.5 seconds. Equip the PDK and that falls to 4.2 seconds.

It’s still no GTS, but it’s sure as hell fast enough.

Top speed is ‘over 180mph,’ which appears to be significant to the brand. It highlights a long tradition of Carrera models that will pass the milestone on a long straight. Today’s standard Carrera will touch 183mph as a manual, and 182mph with PDK.

The Porsche 911 Carrera T Is A Lighter, Faster, Manual-Shifting Thrill-Seeker

Classic Porsche behaviour is to charge more for less, and guess what? The stripped-out Carrera T is £7685 more expensive than the standard version for some reason.

Prices for the T start at £85,576 in the UK, and rest assured there’ll be a million ways for you to spend more on options, most of which will help eliminate your original weight saving. Orders can be taken now, but deliveries won’t start until January. We assume that it’ll also be offered as part of Porsche’s subscription service.

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Comments

Ali Mahfooz

The stripped-out Carrera T is £7685 more expensive than the standard version for some reason.

Because typical Porsche logic - charge more money for fewer components. 😛

10/23/2017 - 06:24 |
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I think it makes sense tho. They took a normal Porsche and worked on it, therefore, more work on it, bigger the price

10/23/2017 - 06:26 |
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JJOCBRZ

£7685 price tag… Making one cog bigger than the other and out the of the same material as the original worth £7685?

10/23/2017 - 07:29 |
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Tomislav Celić

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10/23/2017 - 08:13 |
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Anonymous

This, or a GT3 Touring? 🤔

10/23/2017 - 07:36 |
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Tomislav Celić

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

This

10/23/2017 - 08:13 |
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TheMindGarage

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

GT3 Touring. The GT3 is more performance biased; this one just sits awkwardly in the middle.

10/23/2017 - 08:35 |
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Anonymous

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911R for me thanks.

10/23/2017 - 08:48 |
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Anonymous

And in England, Lotus rejoices at the idea of Porsche wanting to be them!

10/23/2017 - 07:40 |
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T_StreakMLP

“Classic Porsche behaviour is to charge more for less.”

Until a CTzen with no Porsche walks past a dealership, and they’re gonna get charged a million pounds!

10/23/2017 - 09:02 |
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Anonymous

The 911 range:
cerrera, cerrera s, cerrera t, gt3, gt3 rs, gt3 touring, gt2 rs, turbo, turbo s,
And finaly the porsche 911 gt23 rs touring turbo s t Stuttgart lightweight gts edition

10/23/2017 - 10:21 |
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Anonymous

Does it not even have a radio??

10/23/2017 - 10:34 |
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Anonymous

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

It’s a no cost option

10/26/2017 - 16:31 |
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Nishant Dash

Another car added to the want list..

10/23/2017 - 11:07 |
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Humza Khan

Like Clarkson said: They forget the stuff to install on the car on the factory shelves, and then charge you for it

10/23/2017 - 11:23 |
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Olivier (CT's grammar commie)

I was all enthusiast, until the “The stripped-out Carrera T is £7685 more expensive than the standard version for some reason”.

I like the car, but charging more for it is totally stupid. They literally just took a Carrera and removed some stuff from it. It should logically be cheaper than the standard Carrera, or at least the same price. What are the 8k paying for? No R&D was involved, no exclusive stuff is there, there’s the regular base engine and there is less stuff. It would have been my favorite Carrera, but price cancels it. I’d rather get a Carrera S for almost the same price (aka $5k more), or a 718 Cayman GTS with only 5 hp less, for $20k cheaper.

10/23/2017 - 15:11 |
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