906 Carrera 6

The last road-legal racer

The 906 is a two-litre prototype with lights, luggage space and road papers because the rulebook required them. Sixty-five chassis covered six-cylinder cars, fuel-injected works cars and four experimental eights.

Market value · road

$1.8M$2.8M

Typical $2.2M · 4 sales · -5% vs ’20–’23

$1.5M$3.0M
Open Market & Price

Market value · road

$1.8M$2.8M

Typical $2.2M · 4 sales · -5% vs ’20–’23

$1.5M$3.0M
’03’25
Market history · in the terminal
Open Market & Price
Engine
1'991 cc (air-cooled flat-six)
Power
210 PS (customer 901/20)
Top speed
up to 280 km/h (depending on gearing)
Transmission
5-speed (manual transaxle)
Structure
Tubular frame (unstressed GRP body)
Production
65 chassis (52 carburetted sixes)

Market & Price

The price and the proof

A terminal for one car: the model curve over the documented record, the benchmarks it is measured against, and the instruments that read it.

Records: 8 documented road sales on file · 2003–2025; estimate band $1.8M–$2.8M · good road cars. recorded sale prices · mixed hammer and premium-inclusive basis.

HCN:906CARRELive model
$2'200'00030.4% · 12M
$2M$4M$6M20182020202220242026CovidRate shockS&P 500
Model curve · anchored to 8 documented salesnot investment advice
The readouts · model figures against the benchmarks8 documented anchors · last sale 15 mo ago

Compound annual growth

WindowThis car*S&P 500Gold
1Y+30.4%+18.8%+21.9%
5Y+2.2%+11.4%+17.6%
10Y+2.7%+13.3%+11.8%

*Modeled price CAGR · S&P is a price index, no dividends

Deepest drawdown · model window

This car*-30.7%Mar 2024Apr 2025 · not recovered
S&P 500-50.8%Oct 2007Mar 2009 · recovered Mar 2013
Gold-39.3%Sep 2011Dec 2015 · recovered Jul 2020

Forecast ladder · model quantiles

HorizonP10P50P90
+6M$2.0M$2.2M$2.5M
+12M$2.0M$2.3M$2.6M
+24M$2.0M$2.4M$2.8M

Median path with the 10th and 90th percentile · not investment advice

Transaction ledger · documented sales

8 of 8 recorded sales · shown in USD · recorded currency in each record

Chassis history dominates a market with very few public transactions.

Price range · road · openConfidence · mediumTwo documented public sales anchor the model at $1.98 million in 2015 and $2.205 million in 2024. The sample is thin and each car differs in period results, frame and body continuity, installed engine and accompanying spares, so the band cannot be read as a chassis-independent price.

Floor

$1.8M

Typical

$2.2M

Ceiling

$2.8M

Estimate band for good road cars. 4 documented sales since 2019 plotted below.

$1.4M$1.8M$2.2M$2.8M$3.0M
Hover the spectrum to read a value, or a dot for the sale behind it.

Band and axis shown in USD. Sale positions use indicative fixed-rate conversion to USD; sale readouts retain recorded currencies. Indicative band for recognised six-cylinder cars with documented history. Works provenance, major results or unresolved reconstruction can move a car far outside it.

The wider market · Porsche at auction · median per year · modeled between anchors1,973 lots · 2003–2026 · exact yearly anchors · modeled line

Instrument calibration for this file is in progress — the terminal above reads the documented record directly.

Reported auction results are retained in USD. Buyer-premium treatment follows each auction house's published result.

Overview

Piëch replaced the 904 from the frame out

The 906 followed the 904 but retained little of its construction. Under Ferdinand Piëch's supervision, Porsche moved to a tubular frame with a thin, unstressed glass-fibre shell and installed a six-cylinder engine derived from the 911 programme.

Porsche presented the Carrera 6 to the press in January 1966. Customer demand absorbed the homologation run quickly, while works development added fuel injection, long-tail bodywork and experimental eight-cylinder engines.

The car won the Targa Florio outright and helped Porsche take the 1966 two-litre sports-car and prototype categories. The 910 replaced it at works level, but private owners raced individual 906s for years.

Power
210 PS
Built
65 chassis
Layout
Mid-engine · RWD
Body
Glass-fibre
1966 Targa Florio
1st overall

Reference

Technical specifications

Customer Carrera 6

Engine
Type 901/20 air-cooled flat-six1'991 cc, twin-plug ignition
Induction
Two Weber 46 IDA triple-throat carburettors
Output
210 PS154 kW; Porsche published figure
Transmission
5-speed manual transaxle
Drive
Rear-wheel drive

Chassis and body

Frame
Multi-tubular steel spaceframe
Body
Unstressed glass-fibre panels
Doors
Roof-hinged gullwing
Suspension
Independent wishbonescoil springs and telescopic dampers
Brakes
Four-wheel ventilated discs
Published weight
580 to 675 kgsources use different configurations and weight conventions

The records

0chassis

Total production

52 customer carburetted six-cylinder cars

0kg

Porsche published empty weight

P0

1966 Targa Florio

HICON BID

Buying interest, silently.

A HICON Bid is a confidential expression of buying interest on the Porsche 906 Carrera 6 file — never public, never shown to other members. It is not a binding purchase, and HICONIUM holds no funds.

Sign in

HICON Bids are a member instrument. Sign in to place one.

The vault

Open a file on yours.

You keep one? The record starts in your garage — identity, papers, photography, and the market evidence this file already carries, bound to your chassis.

The variants

One badge, 3 executions

The register separates the 906 Carrera 6 into its documented executions. One reference silhouette per execution — each opens as its own file as the archive fills.

Porsche 906 Carrera 6 Carrera 6 — reference silhouetteCarrera 601
Reference in preparation906 E02
Reference in preparation906 LH03

3 executions on file · references drawn to the house standard

The cars

The 906 Carrera 6 register

Documented individual cars — chassis, colour, ownership and sale history. Open one for its full provenance. Public records only; members see the complete registry.

03 documented · public records

The hands

The people behind the car

The people whose work shaped the Porsche 906 Carrera 6.

Ferdinand Piëch

Development supervisor

Supervised the experimental department during the 906 programme and drove its tubular-frame, low-mass brief.

Hans Mezger

Engine and project engineering

Named with Piëch in contemporary programme histories for the Carrera 6 development and its flat-six engineering.