What’s interesting is Porsche builds five 911 GTS body styles, and tunes four of them identically – Sport PASM, lowered ten millimetres, springs stiffened by as much as fifty per cent. The Targa is the exception. It keeps the standard-height PASM instead, deliberately softer, because Porsche’s own reasoning is that Targa buyers want a GTS they can actually live with, not a lap timer with a roof. The result is the GTS that rides the best of the five, without giving up a meaningful amount of the pace.
Which suits the body style rather well, because the Targa was never built to be the aggressive one. It is, arguably, the most sensible way to enjoy a 911 with the sky involved – not as exposed as a Cabriolet, not as sealed-in as a Coupé with a sunroof cracked open. And it might just be the prettiest of the three: that stainless roll bar sweeping into the wraparound rear glass is a silhouette no other 911 body style can claim.
Centre-lock wheels are the giveaway here, not the badge. A Targa 4S can be optioned to look almost identical from ten feet away, but the forged centre-lock hubs – carried over from the 911 Turbo – are one of the few things Porsche keeps GTS-exclusive, whichever body you choose. Look past them and the theme reveals itself as thoroughly deliberate: Jet Black Metallic paintwork, a hoop and roof finished in black rather than the usual polished stainless, red brake calipers glowing behind the wheels, and GTS badging picked out in red across the front wings. Black on black, with just the one flash of colour – call it stealth-wealth, or call it Gotham’s daily driver; either way, it reads as intentional rather than accessorised.
Inside, Carbon Matt trim replaces the usual wood or aluminium; Race-Tex, the suede-like microfibre Porsche develops for its own competition cars, covers the GT sports steering wheel, sun visors, and the storage lid stamped with the Porsche crest; the rev counter, alone among the instruments, runs in Carmine Red.
The Adaptive Sports seats are trimmed to the GTS’s own pattern – eighteen-way adjustable, with memory for two – and a Burmester High-End Surround Sound system is fitted for the drive home once the roof folds itself away, a fully automated sequence that lifts the rear glass, stows the fabric top behind the seats, and returns it all inside twenty seconds.
Matrix LED headlights, tinted, and the GTS’s own exclusive tail-light design finish the exterior. Comfort Access, a front-axle lift system for ordinary driveways, privacy glass, and an ioniser round out a specification most owners won’t think to ask about until they already have it.
The service history is with Porsche Centre Solihull, most recently in December 2025 at 7,284 miles, and the manufacturer’s warranty runs until November. Notably full Xpel paint protection film has been applied, and the car has passed through only two owners since new.
About This Model
In 1964, Baron Antonio Pucci and Colin Davis won the Targa Florio outright in a Porsche 904, the first car ever to wear the badge GTS — Gran Turismo Sport, a term Porsche coined for a racer considerate enough of its driver to survive seven hours at the limit rather than merely complete it. The following year, at Frankfurt, Porsche answered the same race's name in an altogether different way: the original 911 Targa, a "safety cabriolet" built with a polished stainless roll bar in place of the crude tubular hoops then fitted to open-top racers, designed to satisfy an American ban on convertibles that was widely anticipated and never actually arrived. Its designer, Ferdinand Alexander "Butzi" Porsche, had drawn the 904 in the same studio in the same years — Targa and GTS share a birthplace, even if Porsche took exactly fifty years to put both names on one car.
That car, the 911 Targa 4 GTS, was not revealed until January 2015, at Detroit, on the Targa's own half-centenary. This 992-generation example carries the inheritance forward: its 3.0-litre twin-turbo flat six runs roughly 14.5 per cent more boost than a Carrera S, its only genuine hardware change a strengthened dual-mass flywheel to cope with the extra torque, for 473bhp arriving low enough in the rev range to make proper use of standard rear-axle steering and permanent all-wheel drive.
The roof, an automated descendant of Butzi's original idea, still takes the better part of twenty seconds to fold itself away - theatre enough, in an age of instant convenience, to be worth the wait.
Options
Jet Black Metallic
GTS interior package
Convertible Top in black
Rear-Axle Steering
Power steering plus
Porsche Dynamic Chassis Control (PDCC)
Exterior Package painted in Black (high-gloss)
Front axle lift system
loniser
Heated GT Sports Steering Wheel Race-Tex
Comfort Access
Windscreen with grey top-tint
Privacy Glass
Carbon matt Interior Package
Sun Visors Race-Tex
Storage compartment lid in Race-Tex with PORSCHE logo
Electric folding exterior mirrors
PDK Gear Selector Aluminium
Rev counter in Carmine Red
Tinted LED main headlights with Matrix Beam including Porsche Exclusive Design Taillights
Burmester® High-End Surround Sound System
Adaptive Sports seats Plus, electrical 18-way with memory
Storage Package
Light design package
PORSCHE Logo LED Door Courtesy Lights
Pedals in Aluminium
Door Sill Guards brushed Aluminium in Black, illuminated
