Porsche and La Marzocco launch a 911 Carrera RS 2.7 tribute espresso machine priced at $7,911

Porsche has launched a second branded espresso machine, a La Marzocco Linea Micra special edition that honours the 911 Carrera RS 2.7 and costs $7,911 before tax. It follows an earlier Porsche espresso maker that sold out within eight hours despite a $7,000 price tag.

The machine is a styling exercise built on La Marzocco's Linea Micra, with Porsche paint colours, fonts and a ducktail spoiler motif worked into the cup holder on top. It is not a car, and Porsche's own performance claims do not apply here: the numbers that matter are unit caps and prices.

How the 911 tribute shows up on a coffee machine

The design references the 911 Carrera RS 2.7 through red and green needles on the pressure gauges, dials badged "RS" and "2.7", and a limited edition "One of 911" plaque on the side of the machine. The ducktail spoiler appears as part of the cup holder, a subtle nod to the car's famous rear wing.

Three colour schemes are offered. Buyers in America can choose white and green or tangerine and black, with production of each paint colour limited to 911 examples. Germany gets a region-specific version in white and blue, matching the 911 Carrera RS 2.7, capped at 150 units.

The pricing is clearly a branding exercise rather than a reflection of the hardware. The $7,911 figure before tax mirrors the car's model name, and the unit caps of 911 per US colour scheme do the same job. Buyers are paying for the association as much as the espresso.

Specifications and the matching grinder

The machine is modelled on La Marzocco's Linea Micra. It has a convertible portafilter that can run a single spout, double spout or bottomless configuration, an app for adjusting temperatures and scheduling brew times, a two-litre water tank and LED lighting.

A matching grinder based on La Marzocco's Pico is sold in the same colours for $2,125 before tax. It offers three memory settings, stepless grind adjustment and manual grinding, plus a magnetically adjustable portafilter and a self-closing hopper. Bought together, the set costs $10,036 before tax and shipping.

Porsche's coffee range extends well beyond the two machines. There is a coffee aroma tin at $135, barista napkins at $69, miniature 911 Carrera RS 2.7 models in the matching paint schemes, and espresso cups: a two-pack with saucers matching the machines at $105, or around $35 for a single cup in most other designs.

The earlier Porsche espresso machine sold out in eight hours, which suggests the 911-badged run may not sit on shelves for long. The unit caps are low enough that the paint schemes, particularly Germany's 150-unit white and blue version, are likely to be the scarce ones.

Oklahoma-based tuner Trick Rides has built a carbon-fibre-bodied Ford F-100 pickup, nicknamed Tricky, and displayed it at this year's SEMA show. The build combines a classic bumpside body with a supercharged modern V8 and a lifted chassis, and it drew attention at the Las Vegas trade event.

Carbon panels and a candy-blue finish

The exposed carbon body panels, which include the quarter panels, hood, door skins, tailgate and roof, were supplied by Brothers Composites. Trick Rides then sprayed the carbon with Blue Candy paint, producing a coloured-carbon effect usually reserved for European hypercars.

A restored carbon F-100 with its original engine would already have stood out at SEMA, but the modifications went well beyond bodywork.

Supercharged Coyote V8, no power figures yet

Under the hood sits a 5.0-litre Coyote V8 fitted with a Whipple supercharger, stainless steel long-tube headers and Magnaflow mufflers. Trick Rides has not published power or torque figures, so the output remains unknown.

Carscoops suggests the truck would not look out of place against a new F-150 Raptor R off the line, though that is an impression rather than a measured result.

Lifted chassis and off-road hardware

The pickup rides on a Roadster Shop chassis with a 2.5-inch lift, front and rear sway bars and Fox coilovers. Braking comes from Baer, with six-piston front calipers and four-piston rear calipers.

It rolls on custom black 20-inch Fuel wheels wrapped in 35-inch tyres. Trick Rides says the hardware makes daily driving possible and gives the truck genuine off-road capability, even if most owners are likely to keep it as a showpiece.

The same modifications are offered in a lower, more street-focused variant for buyers who do not want the lift.

Two-seat cabin with modern audio and gauges

Inside, the two-seater has been retrimmed in black leather with blue contrast stitching on the seats and doors. Dakota Digital gauges and a new steering wheel keep a classic Ford feel, while an Alpine audio system with a subwoofer and four speakers has been added.

The truck is described as 58 years old, which points to a late-1960s F-100 generation.

Price still to be confirmed

Trick Rides has not released public pricing for a comprehensive carbon-fibre transformation of this kind. That leaves the cost of the build, and of the street-focused version, unannounced for now.

For buyers weighing a classic truck against a modern performance pickup, the appeal here is the combination: vintage shape, modern chassis and brakes, and supercharged V8 power, provided they accept that the final bill is still a mystery.