When you’ve got the will (and the funds) to personal one in every of Porsche’s most legendary supercars, you’d higher act quick. A one-owner 2005 Porsche Carrera GT with simply 342 miles on the odometer is up for public sale by P Car Market, however the public sale ends in simply two days.
First noticed by Jalopnik, this GT Silver Metallic automobile is one in every of simply 1,270 constructed between 2003 and 2006. Of that whole, simply 644 have been imported to the U.S.
Unveiled on the 2000 Paris Motor Present, the Carrera GT was initially only a idea automobile that wasn’t meant for manufacturing. Nevertheless, Porsche had a V-10 engine readily available from an aborted Le Mans challenge, and shortly grew to become flush with money from the introduction of the Cayenne.
2005 Porsche Carrera GT (picture by way of P Automobile Market)
Initially developed within the Nineteen Nineties for Components One, after which repurposed for a Le Mans program that by no means occurred, the V-10 in the end displaced 5.7-liters in road-car kind. It produced 603 hp and 435 lb-ft of torque, which was channeled to the rear wheels by a 6-speed handbook transmission.
A carbon-fiber monocoque stored the Carrera GT’s curb weight down to three,042 lb. That allowed for 0-62 mph in 3.9 seconds—nonetheless an unimaginable quantity for a naturally aspirated automobile with a handbook transmission—in addition to 0-124 mph in 9.9 seconds, and a 205-mph prime pace.
The automobile up for public sale—chassis 0855—was delivered by a Texas dealership and has been within the authentic proprietor’s assortment since new, in response to the itemizing, which additionally famous that the Carrera GT not too long ago had a “preventative” $50,000 engine-out service. The excessive bid was round $1.33 million on the time of publication, which means this automobile is on observe to set a gross sales report. Final month, a Carrera GT with 2,700 miles set a report of $1.31 million on Carry a Trailer, Jalopnik famous.
