Porsche 964 Carrera RS

The vehicle in detail

The stripped-down interior fitted with factory Recaro bucket seats and minimally equipped door cards, with tether strap door releases, shows the effort kept in creating a competition focused RS for the road by offering only the essentials for a pure driver focused experience. Mirroring its exterior, the cabin presents in excellent condition, only showing minimal wear on the driver’s seat bolster, and is otherwise beautifully well kept. The red seat belts are a nice touch to match with the Guards Red livery. The car is accompanied by its owner’s manual, tool kit, service records, export documents, and a Porsche Production Specification Certificate.

It is often argued that the best Porsches are the lightweight, track-ready variants, and many would argue that the Carrera RS is the most exciting and analog of the 964 generation. Being offered today, this low-mileage example will not disappoint, providing a pure, unhindered driving experience. With the foundation set in Porsche’s legendary motorsports history, this competition derived Carrera RS continues to increase in collectability as low mileage examples such as this are becoming increasingly harder to find.

THE PORSCHE 964 CARRERA RS

‘What the RS has done is take the technical brilliance of the latest Carreras and put back the missing excitement of some earlier, less pampering generations.’ – Brian Laban, Performance Car magazine.

Evoking memories of the legendary 2.7 and 3.0-liter RS and RSR ‘homologation specials’ of the 1970s, in 1991 Porsche introduced the Type 964 Carrera RS. A lightweight variant like its illustrious forebears, the beautiful newcomer was based on the ‘Carrera Cup’ competition car and sold in Europe only, though there was a lower-specification ‘RS America’ for the United States market. There was also a Touring version that kept most of the road equipment fitted to the standard Carrera.