Carbon fiber and brown leather aren’t obvious friends. And neither are forged racing wheels and a wooden gear knob.
TECHART has put all four into the same Porsche 911 GT3 Touring. And somehow the result makes sense.
The car is based on the current 992.2-generation GT3 Touring, retaining its naturally aspirated 4.0-liter flat-six and, crucially, a six-speed manual gearbox.
The example currently offered by TECHART is finished in Paint to Sample Tannengrünmetallic — a deep green that immediately sets the tone for the rest of the build.
This isn’t the typical tuner formula of black paint, black wheels and as much visible carbon as physically possible.
TECHART has gone in another direction. Outside, there’s still plenty of serious hardware.
The GT3 receives the company’s carbon aerokit, including a lightweight carbon hood that TECHART says saves 1.7 kilograms compared with the GT3’s carbon hood.
There are Formula VII Race forged wheels measuring 20 inches at the front and 21 inches at the rear, finished in Neodyme.
A TECHART Rear Spoiler III with a carbon trailing edge sits behind the engine, while a valve-controlled GT Sport exhaust and stainless-steel tailpipes complete the mechanical-looking exterior changes.
Then you open the door. Brown leather. Pepita fabric. And wood.
TECHART’s Manufaktur created the cabin as a one-of-one interior, combining brown leather with traditional Pepita upholstery. The steering wheel receives leather and carbon trim, while the manual gear lever is made using wenge/oak wood. Wood. In a GT3.
Twenty years ago that might have sounded perfectly normal inside a luxury sedan. In a modern Porsche built around high-revving performance and lightweight materials, it sounds almost deliberately wrong.
Yet that’s what makes the car interesting. The current tuning industry has become remarkably predictable. Carbon fiber. Alcantara. Colored stitching. More carbon fiber. Repeat until invoice is sufficiently frightening.
TECHART’s GT3 Touring instead leans into the “Touring” half of its name.
The mechanical foundation remains serious. Porsche’s 4.0-liter naturally aspirated engine produces 510 PS, and the manual gearbox keeps the driver involved in a way increasingly rare in modern performance cars.
But the interior doesn’t pretend it’s a stripped racing machine. There’s even a rear-seat setup, BOSE audio, front-axle lift and a 90-liter fuel tank among the underlying Porsche equipment.
This is a GT3 designed to be driven somewhere. Possibly a very long way.
The combination also demonstrates something that gets lost when discussing modified cars purely in terms of horsepower.
Individualization doesn’t have to make a vehicle faster. Sometimes the interesting part is creating a car that couldn’t have emerged from the normal configurator.
TECHART currently lists this particular example at €330,000 including German VAT, with approximately 3,500 km recorded. That’s serious money.
But it’s also a useful demonstration of why companies like TECHART continue to exist despite Porsche itself offering an enormous customization catalogue.
Porsche will happily sell you a very individual GT3, while TECHART will apparently sell you one with a wooden gear knob. I didn’t expect to like that idea. But I do.
