Porsche 911 Turbo S Marsien Lists for $1.6 Million as 1 of 40 Built

Q: Why is someone selling this ultra-rare $1.6 million desert-conquering Porsche just after spending over $10,000 on maintenance in 2026?

There is no public evidence that the owner is selling because something is wrong with the car. The available facts point more to a collector-style resale than a distress sale. This Marsien is an ultra-rare, one-owner example of a 40-car production run, and one of only five finished in Al Faya Pearl White Effect. It has just 4,699 miles, was recently serviced at Beverly Hills Porsche, received paint-protection film in late 2025, and then had more than $10,000 of specialist work in May 2026 at Paradox Performance, including a corner balance, alignment, and sorting. That kind of spend usually helps position a high-end collector car for sale by ensuring it is fresh, documented, and turnkey for the next buyer. The timing also fits the collector market calendar. The car is being offered through Broad Arrow Private Sales and presented around Monterey Car Week and The Quail, one of the strongest venues for marketing rare modern supercars to wealthy buyers. In that context, recent maintenance is less a contradiction than a selling point: it signals the owner kept the car properly prepared before bringing it to market. So the most plausible answer is simple: the owner likely decided to capitalize on the Marsien’s rarity and strong visibility in the current collector market, and spent the money to make sure the car showed well and could command its roughly $1.6 million asking price.

3 articles · Updated · The Supercar Blog · Aug 10

$1.6 million is the asking price for a 2021 Porsche 911 Turbo S Marsien with 4,699 miles, one of just 40 examples produced.
Marc Philipp Gemballa created the heavily customized model as an all-terrain 'adventure sports car' that can shift from track use to high-speed desert running.
Carbon-fiber bodywork inspired by the Dakar-winning Porsche 959 and bespoke KW suspension underpin that off-road brief.
RUF tuned the 3.7-liter twin-turbo flat-six to as much as 830 hp, giving the Marsien a claimed 208 mph top speed on tarmac.