Today—on April 14, 2026—Porsche unveiled the new Porsche 911 GT3 S/C via livestream on Porsche’s official YouTube channel. Curating the presentation are automotive personalities, Chris Harris and Jean Pierre Kraemer, who might I add were the perfect fit for this event.
“Check out the fender and the door!” Jean Pierre immediately exclaimed, as the car pulled up to the rendezvous spot where he and Chris were waiting. One of the most notable features of the new 911 GT3 S/C, of which there are many, has to be the “creased” dry carbon fibre fenders which integrate into the doors. I suppose those “leaks” were real then, though I had previously referred to them as “GT3 RS fenders”, when they are in fact, the ones adopted from the 911 S/T. Even the proximity key got ditched, and is back to being the good ol’ start key. “It’s like Porsche went through all the different cars, and put everything that was nice, together”, he continued.
JP and Chris don’t waste too much time getting in—with the former being first to take the wheel—and put the 911 GT3 S/C through its paces in the picturesque mountain roads located in beautiful Tenerife, in Spain’s Canary Islands. On route to a final destination—unbeknownst at the time—the duo wax lyrical about the new drop-top GT road car. Oh, by the way, the 911 GT3 S/C is exclusively equipped with a short-ratio 6-speed manual transmission, which in my opinion, is the absolute correct decision by the German automaker.
“It’s one of the great sounds in motoring”, remarked Chris Harris, as the pair noted how the open-top also enhanced the pleasure of the auditory amphitheater delivered through the 4.0L N/A. Forgot your earplugs? The roof can be closed while moving at up to 60 km/h—something which, of course, was verified during the test drive. The dampers and spring rates are the exact same as they are in the 911 GT3 Touring. Suffice to say, this is not a muted or bloated version of the coupe. “I mean, really, dynamically, IF you say this is much worse than a hardtop, you’re lying!”, Chris continued during his passionate riff.
The two automotive personalities eventually ended up stopping at a beautiful water-side property where “Mr. GT” himself, Andreas Preuninger, was waiting to greet the pair and deliver his ceremonial breakdown of the car’s design and purpose. Confirming what the car has already been able to tell us on its own, Preuninger reiterates that the 911 GT3 S/C was created to purely revolve around driving pleasure and enjoyment, and not lap times. To achieve this goal, he says weight reduction was at the core of the car’s overall design philosophy. Though sharing the same shell as other cabriolets in the line-up, the GT3 S/C manages to weigh-in at just 1,497 kg—that’s more than a whopping 200 kg less than the Turbo S Cabriolet. This means that features like the lightweight package from the GT3 Touring, PCCB, and magnesium wheels all come as standard. So, you can only get the lightest possible version of the car Porsche would make, as the exclusive and out-of-the-box option. Nice.
We’re told that the Porsche 911 GT3 S/C will not be a limited production car, though the reality is that it will be just as hard to get—but probably even more so—as other range-topping models offered by the German automaker. Given that so many features come standard relative to the other GT3s, the MSRP has been bumped up as well, with the GT3 S/C’s starting price at $273,000, compared to both coupe variants’ entry fee of $235,800. First deliveries are expected by the middle of this year.
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