Porsche Gives La Marzocco's Linea Micra a Ducktail Cup Rail

Porsche and La Marzocco have built a second Porsche La Marzocco Carrera RS 2.7 espresso machine, a Linea Micra styled after the 1973 911, and its cup rail is shaped like the car's ducktail spoiler. "Carrera RS" runs along the side panel, and the water and steam valve knobs carry "RS" and "2.7". A matching RS 2.7 badge sits on the body.

Ducktail Spoiler, Now a Cup Rail

The ducktail is the Carrera RS 2.7's best known feature, and the machine puts it where the cups go. Coverage of the launch describes the cup rail as taking its shape from that spoiler, so the part of the machine that holds the cups is also its nod to the car.

That is a sound translation. On the 1973 car the ducktail was the first fixed rear spoiler fitted to a production car, and the press gave it the nickname; Porsche's own word was Bürzel, which loosely translates to "rump". A lip that once managed air at the back of a 911 now manages a stack of espresso cups on the top of a machine. The shape survives the change of job, and that is the test of a good homage.

The lettering does the rest of the work. "Carrera RS" on the side echoes the script on the car, and that 1973 model was the first 911 to carry the Carrera name; Porsche had used it earlier on a 356 variant. Putting "RS" and "2.7" on the valve knobs is the smartest decision in the set, because those are the parts a hand touches every morning.

Five Hundred Were Required. Porsche Built 1,580.

The Carrera RS 2.7 exists because of a homologation rule. FIA Group 4 called for 500 road going cars, and Renndriver reports that the initial run of 500 sold out before production began. Porsche kept building, and the total came to 1,580 cars, 200 of them lightweight versions.

The new machine plays with numbers too. Reports put the run at 911 machines in each of the green and white and the orange and black versions, so the production figure is also the model name of the car it honors. The 2024 edition did the same thing: the first Porsche and La Marzocco Linea Micra was capped at 911 units and took its look from the 911 Carrera RSR that won the Targa Florio in 1973. Japanese coverage at the time reported it sold out at pre order.

A collector reads those figures the way they read a chassis plate. Five hundred was the rulebook, 1,580 was demand, and 911 is a number chosen for the badge.

Grand Prix White, Tangerine and a Blue Reserved for Germany

The Linea Micra comes in three historic Porsche colours: Grand Prix White with green, Tangerine with black, and Grand Prix White with blue. Tangerine paint also turns up on surviving 1973 Carrera RS cars. Coverage lists a further 150 blue and white machines reserved for Germany, and outlets differ on how the run splits across colours, so Porsche's shop page is the reference for quantities.

La Marzocco's Pico grinder is the matching piece. Reported prices are €5,790 for the Linea Micra and €1,550 for the Pico, and US conversions in the coverage run from about $6,470 to $7,911, so the American figure depends on which outlet you read.

The collection premiered on October 29, 2026 at a launch event at the Porsche Museum. It went on sale on October 30 through Porsche's website and select Porsche Centers and Design Stores.

Porsche Keeps Reaching Back to the Seventies

The machine lands in a year when Porsche has spent a lot of effort on its own past. On August 14, 2026 the company revealed the Flachbau RS, a one off built by the Sonderwunsch department over nearly three years as a road legal homage to the 935/78 Moby Dick, with designer Grant Larson coming out of retirement for it. That car was made for one customer and is not for sale. The espresso machine is the opposite, an homage sized for a kitchen counter, with a run counted in hundreds per colour.

The 2.7 itself has a quieter story in the archive. A 1977 911 2.7 delivered in Australia shipped with no fifth gear, one mirror and vinyl seats, and it avoided the thermoreactor emissions hardware blamed for cooking magnesium crankcases on US market cars from 1975 to 1977. The engine family behind the RS badge ran for years in plain trim, and the espresso machine borrows only the glamorous end of that history.

The best fact is the shortest. On the 1973 car, 2.7 is the engine's displacement in litres. On the Linea Micra, it is stamped on the steam knob.