Porsche's one-off 911 Turbo S 'Land Down Under' goes to sealed bid Nov 16

A one-off 911 Turbo S goes to sealed bid this week

Porsche Cars Australia is selling a single, unrepeatable 911 Turbo S through a sealed bid process, and the window to even register for it closes on Monday, 16 November 2026 at 5pm AEDT. Anyone who registers through the official expression of interest form gets full bidding details on 18 November. There is no listed price. It goes to whoever bids highest once the process opens to registered parties.

The car is called the 911 Turbo S Land Down Under. It was built by Porsche Sonderwunsch, the factory's special wishes department, working with Porsche Cars Australia, Porsche Style and the Australian artist Werner Bronkhorst, to mark 75 years of Porsche in Australia. Porsche Cars Australia is also donating AUD 75,000 to Make A Wish Australia to mark the same milestone. Whoever wins the bid gets a prize package on top of the car itself: two 3 day passes to the Porsche Pavilion at the 2027 Formula 1 Australian Grand Prix, business class flights for two, three nights of accommodation and a dinner with Bronkhorst and Porsche leadership.

What Porsche actually built

The Turbo S wears two new Chromaflair paints, Terra Australis Red and Southern Cross Blue, blended into each other from the shoulder line down in seven hand painted layers. Bronkhorst's signature "75" sits on the roof in a ghosted typeface, and hand painted miniatures run across the body: a climber on a wheel spoke, a surfer on the door frame. The rear spoiler hides the phrase "See ya later mate", which only shows up in Sport Plus mode. Inside, the dashboard carries a topographic read of the Blue Mountains, the roofliner maps the night sky as it looked over Uluru in 1951, and the seats use Dark Night Blue and a new shade called Coolibah Brown leather over Australian silky oak trim. Porsche says the seat upholstery alone carries 14,417 individual perforations, worked out to echo Bronkhorst's brushstrokes. It is a regular production car under the skin, a 992.2 generation 911 Turbo S, so Porsche still lists a fuel consumption figure of 11.5 to 11.7 litres per 100 km and CO2 of 261 to 266 g per km.

This sits at the top of Sonderwunsch's own ladder. Porsche's own account of the programme splits it into three tiers: Factory Commission, which is what built this car, Factory Re Commission for retrofitting an existing Porsche, and Factory One Offs, entirely new builds that Porsche says typically take two to three years, with a fully new vehicle closer to four. Customers work through a dedicated consultant based in Zuffenhausen. Porsche showed a similar current slate of Factory Commission cars, including Luca Trazzi's 911 S/T called Funky Minty, at the Fuori Concorso event on Lake Como in May 2026.

Can you order something like this from India

Not this car, and not quite this tier, but the idea is not shut off to Indian buyers either. Porsche India runs the next tier down, Exclusive Manufaktur, out of its Kochi centre, with more than 700 personalisation options across every model it sells here, from paint and leather to trim. Porsche says around 95 percent of that work is done in house, and a typical order takes 3 to 6 weeks depending on whether the parts need to come from overseas. That is the practical route for an Indian owner who wants a one of a kind Porsche. A full Sonderwunsch Factory Commission like the Land Down Under car would mean going through the Zuffenhausen consultant directly, and Porsche has not said whether Indian clients have commissioned a Factory One Off of their own. Watching the Land Down Under bid close this week is as close as most of us will get to seeing what the top of that ladder actually looks like.

Sources

• 911 Turbo S Land Down Under Sonderwunsch Commission to be offered through Exclusive Sale Process
• Porsche 911 Turbo S Land Down Under: inspired by Australia
• Creating custom Porsche cars with the Sonderwunsch programme
• Porsche at Fuori Concorso: Sonderwunsch at Lake Como
• Inside Exclusive Manufaktur, the top tier of Porsche personalisation