We covet the water-cooled generations of Porsches just as much as classic air-cooled cars, especially anything that comes from the GT department. You’d think there might possibly be less opportunity to enhance the interior of a modern-day Porsche, but there is still plenty of scope. Working with Exclusiv Manufactur is obviously a very costly and time-consuming process, and even then they’re probably still limited. So this 991.2 GT3RS is a classic example of what can be done. It looks as stunning as it performs on the road - British Racing Green bodywork over a a cognac and black leather interior. A new customer came to John with a few requests in mind, but after a few quick conversations the list of upgrades grew longer.

The stock (and maybe slightly plain) steering column, inner door sills, sun visors and fuse panel cover were all wrapped in matching alcantara, with a matching platinum stitching detail to highlight the handcrafted feel. And banish many of the cheaper plastic components and surfaces. We were asked to match the factory approach when trimming these pieces (all available as options) but you might notice a few subtle improvements on the stitched seam details on pieces like the fuse panel cover.

The owner also requested a retrim on the original black leather centre console lid to matching Cognac Nappa leather, with the addition of the embossed Porsche Crest. The end result is indistinguishable from factory.

This car was optioned (as it should) with the 918 lightweight bucket seats (LWB) in carbon. These seats definitely hold you in all the right place but getting in and out isn’t quite as easy, and combined this with the lighter coloured leather makes rubbing against the side bolsters in inevitable. So John created his version of a one-piece side bolster protector, that moulds perfectly to the outer side of the seat. At first glance, you literally can’t tell that there’s an extra leather cover there. The trick being the pattern that John has made to countour to the bolster shape, and then also how it’s attached to the seat itself. (We do also offer this side bolster protection as a two-piece part, but at the moment it seems like most owners prefer the one-piece.)

With this particular job, John couldn’t help himself and pro-actively made up a set of replacement inserts - which the client immediately wanted as soon as he saw them. The seat foams are an improvement on factory inserts as the grades of foam used can be tailored to customer preferences (the factory inserts tend to be on the harder side) and in a throwback to 70’s Turbos and Carreras, we covered these inserts in brown & tan pasha which paired perfectly with the Cognac leather.

So as you can see the answer is ‘yes’ - it is still possible to improve on a factor GT Porsche interior.