Ever since Porsche came out with the paddle system, I have had some second thoughts about the one million dollar question
? To do, or not to do this mod ???????!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So I made the following analysis:
What I like on buttons
I like very much the look of the my steering wheel, and at least from the pictures the new steering doesn´t look better, although almost everyone who seen it and felt it, said it looks and feels much better. Right now I´m stuck in Hong Kong due to ashes, but as soon as I get home I´ll try to look and feel this new steering wheel.
I like the ticker feel provided by steering wheel at 9h15. I´m 1,91mts and have big hands so they adjust perfectly.
I appreciate the fact on relax days while cruising, I can ride only with my left hand on the steering wheel and still be able to down/upshift whenever I can (one of benefits of buttons over paddles)
But the best benefit of buttons over paddles is the fact you can have multifunction steering wheel, which I will loose if I decide to choose for paddles.
And the best benefit of button over paddles is when you´re driving very fast on a mountain road, it´s easy to use the push/pull system because you just know whenever you push/pull, it will upshift/downshift, which doesn´t happened with paddles, with those, you´ll have to think exactly where the paddles downshift/upshift re in order not make a mistake.
What I don´t like
The fact I have to push the button in order to upshift does give me an artificial kind of feeling that some how cuts the driving pleasure in all kind of situations.
Buttons have a plastic feel to it.
The buttons are not 100% fixed, let me try to explain, it moves 1 mm from side to side if you know what I mean, it would be much better if buttons had a 100% fixed feel, it would provide a better push/pull play.
I find myself driving in automatic mode more than I wish, wish didn´t happened on other cars I drove with paddles.
What I like about paddles
It gets you more close to the action and this is something I´m really looking for.
The paddles play is more attractive.
It will make me use much more the manual mode.
What I don´t like
Loosing the multifunction option.
Spending 1200 eur
What you experts have to say about this. Reginos and Gnill, no that you had already some proper km behind the wheel, don´t you miss in any sense the buttons?