Thanks, Gnil, for your candid comments on the PDK.  I have not yet driven the PDK, but did drive a Tiptronic Carrera C4S in Germany/Austria in 2004 and HATED it !  I vowed that I would never own an automatic, no matter how advanced.  It just takes a lot of fun out of the driving experience, at least for me.  If I lived in a city or had a long commute each day, then I could see the PDK.  But I live in rural Oregon, where we have some of the best Porsche roads anywhere in the U.S.   And Porsche makes one of the finest manual transmissions produced anywhere.