Porsche produced 1,270 Carrera GTs.
The Carrera GT was a limited-production mid-engine supercar built from 2003 to 2006. Porsche originally planned a run of 1,500 cars, but the final production total was lower. Production ended on 6 May 2006, with 1,270 examples completed at Porsche’s Leipzig facility.
The car’s unusually high specification helped make it a landmark Porsche. It used a naturally aspirated 5.7-litre V10 derived from racing-engine work, a carbon-fibre monocoque and a six-speed manual transmission. Its open two-seat body and dramatic engine note made it very different from the rear-engined 911 range.
The production figure is often confused with the original target of 1,500. That planned number was not the number actually built. Regional sales figures also do not equal global production: 644 cars were sold in the United States and 31 in Canada, while the total worldwide output was 1,270. The Carrera GT was later succeeded in Porsche’s halo-car lineage by the 918 Spyder.