Porsche’s Eye-Popping Seats Have An Eye-Popping Price

Yesterday, Porsche launched its latest retro special edition of the 911. It’s called the Spirit 70, and it’s loaded with throwback cues from the olive paint to the gold badging. The interior got plenty of attention, too, particularly the seats. They sport an upholstery pattern known as “Pasha.” It’s a checkered design, but the checks stretch and shrink in size depending on where they’re at on the fabric. It results in a trippy design, and it was made famous in the front-engine 928. While the Spirit 70 gets the color-matched Pasha upholstery as an exclusive feature, Porsche is offering a different color of Pasha upholstery on the rest of the 911 line. Just make sure you can afford it.

Pasha For All

The Pasha seats are part of the Heritage Design Interior package. It’s available on just about any “normal” 911 from the base Carrera up through the GTS trims, and in both the coupe and Targa body styles. The models excluded are the GT models and the Turbo models. What the package includes are a pair of the 18-way power-adjustable Adaptive Sport Seats Plus wrapped in black leather and Pasha fabric in black and silver. That fabric also appears on the door inserts and even the inside of the glove box. Contrasting grey stitching also appears along with embossed Porsche crests in the headrests. The retro touches don’t stop with the seats, though, as the dials get green lettering and white needles. That applies to the stop watch, too, if you get the Sport Chrono Package.

Expensive, But Not As Expensive As The Sport 70

Since this is a special package for a Porsche, it’s really expensive. The seating package costs $12,980 on its own. It also requires you to add those power-adjustable seats, which are another $3,830. All in, the seats can add $16,810 to the cost of a base 911 Carrera. The price of the adjustable seats varies a bit depending on trim, but the package is a five-figure addition regardless.

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The 911 Spirit 70, based on the Carrera GTS cabriolet, features Pasha fabric, the automaker’s most iconic upholstery of all time.

By no means will we defend an option that’s roughly 10% of a car’s price as cheap. But considering the price of a Spirit 70, the option package is certainly the most affordable way to get a new Pasha Porsche. The Spirit 70 has a base price of $242,250 including destination charge. While you can’t get the seats in a regular Carerra GTS Cabriolet for an exact comparison, you can get them in the Carerra 4 GTS Targa, which has a removable roof section. With the Pasha seats, it comes to $193,050, a savings of nearly $50,000. Obviously, there are other draws to the Spirit 70, but if you just want a 911 with Pasha upholstery, the Heritage Design package is the way to go.