The Carrera GT was first appeared in Most Wanted, and the model was fixed by Ellis Racing. It also appears in NFS Titles like Carbon, ProStreet, Undercover, Shift (and Shift 2), Nitro, World, Hot Pursuit 2010 & Remastered, The Run, Rivals in RCPD Version, No Limits, and Edge. It has full customization + 2 from Carbon & 1 Custom Bodykit

The development of the Carrera GT can be traced back to the 911 GT1 & LMP1-98 racing cars. Due in part to the FIA & ACO rule changes in 1998, both designs had ended. Porsche at the time had planned on a new Le Mans prototype for 1999. The car was initially intended to use a turbocharged flat-6, but was later redesigned to use a new V10 engine, pushing the project back to planned completion in 2000. The V10 was a unit secretly built by Porsche for the Footwork Formula 1 team in 1992, but later shelved. The engine was resurrected for the Le Mans prototype & increased in size to 5.7L. The project was canceled after 2 days of testing for the 1st car, in mid-1999, mostly due to Porsche's wish to build the Cayenne SUV with involvement from Volkswagen & Audi, thus requiring engineering expertise to be pulled from the motorsports division. It was also speculated that VW-Audi chairman Ferdinand Piëch wanted Audi's new Le Mans Prototype, the Audi R8 not to face competition from Porsche in 2004.

Porsche did keep part of the project alive by using the 5.5 L V10 from the prototype in a concept car shown at the 2000 Paris Motor Show, mainly in an attempt to draw attention to their display. Surprising interest in the vehicle and an influx of revenue provided from the Cayenne helped Porsche decide to produce the car, and development started on a road-legal version that would be produced in small numbers at Porsche's new manufacturing facility in Leipzig. Porsche started a production run of Carrera GTs in 2004, shipping the units with an MSRP of $448,000. The 1st Carrera GT went on sale in the US on January 31, 2004. Originally a production run of 1,500 cars was planned. However, Porsche announced in August 2005 that it would not continue production of the Carrera GT through to 2006, citing discontinuation was due to changing airbag regulations in the US. By the end of production on May 6, 2006, more than 1,270 GTs had been sold, with a total of 644 units sold in the US & 31 units sold in Canada. In the United Kingdom, 49 units were sold.

The Carrera GT was appeared in multiple games such as NFS games mentioned on top, Forza Motorsport games (2005, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7 and 2023), Forza Horizon games (2, 3, 4 and 5), Drag Racing, CSR Racing 2, Car Mechanic Simulator (2017 & 2021), The Crew 2 & Motorfest, Forza Street, Rebel Racing, Gran Turismo 7, Real Racing 3, etc. It visits a default garage from Drift Spirits as 5th car after Miura Concept, and the model fix was released last year in NFSAddons