orsche’s latest La Marzocco espresso machine has a ducktail, and it’s right where you’d put your cups. If you ever wanted to park a piece of a 1972 sports car directly on your kitchen counter, two engineering giants have an expensive proposition waiting for you. For anyone trying to figure out whether a kitchen appliance deserves a five-figure investment, this collaboration strips away the mystery of luxury branding.
The Price of a Spoiler
Automobile manufacturers love putting their badges on things that have nothing to do with cars, but charging sports-car money for a household kitchen tool is a special kind of ambition. The Porsche x La Marzocco Linea Micra RS 2.7 edition costs $7,911 before tax for the US market, turning a routine morning coffee setup into an expensive exercise in brand loyalty. The raised rail borrows its shape from the 911 Carrera RS 2.7’s rear spoiler, serving as a handy rack where you would put your cups.
Grand Prix White with green accents and Tangerine with black accents are each limited to 911 espresso machines. A third combination, Grand Prix White and Blue, is limited to 150 and sold exclusively in Germany. Porsche’s US shop labels the two US color choices Vipergreen and Blood Orange. Underneath that striking paint job, however, the machine is entirely familiar territory.
Under the Paint
For nearly eight thousand dollars, you are getting a machine that relies on standard internal mechanics without any special performance upgrades. Under the special finish, the Linea Micra uses separate boilers for brewing and steam, with PID temperature control (an electronic system that keeps the water at a steady, even temperature). That means you get steady electronic regulation to hold the brewing temperature steady, alongside an accessible two-liter water tank.
The paddle activates an on/off microswitch; it doesn’t provide manual pressure profiling. You still prepare the coffee in the portafilter and decide when to stop the shot yourself. The convertible portafilter switches between single-spout, double-spout and bottomless setups, while an insulated steam wand handles milk and LED lights illuminate the brewing area. Porsche also includes a stainless-steel tamper, two filter baskets, single and double spouts, a blind filter, cleaning detergent and a 350ml milk jug.
The Full Garage Package
Of course, no collector stops at just the machine when there are matching accessories to buy. The matching Pico grinder is listed at $2,125 before tax in Porsche’s US store. Its manual grind adjustment and adjustable magnetic portafilter holder handle the coffee preparation before the machine takes over, complete with an automatically closing hopper and Carrera RS lettering.
Buy the $7,911 machine and $2,125 grinder together and the total is $10,036 before tax.
Skeptics will point out that you are paying thousands of dollars purely for custom paint, laser-engraved RS and 2.7 markings, and a magnetic badge. And they are entirely right, because the core appliance underneath is something you can buy without the sports-car heritage. But for anyone deciding whether to pull the trigger, this is not about extraction rates or microfoam quality. It is a numbered collector's item where the total package reaches $10,036 before tax.
What’s behind it
A price tag of nearly eight thousand dollars suggests bespoke racing machinery, yet beneath the paint sits an ordinary La Marzocco with standard internals and no manual pressure control. The steep markup buys only a cup rack shaped like a Carrera RS spoiler and a numbered run capped at 911 units. All of the legendary automotive engineering amounts to custom badges and a decorative power switch. The collaboration reduces kitchen performance to an exorbitant fee for a sportscar emblem on the counter.