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Fanch said:
But it's quite funny that, arguably, the sporty one had the cruising tip gearbox and the cruising one has the more sporty manual gearbox
This is sort of convoluted.
I ordered the Tip in my 996TT coupe because I imagined that I would do some track driving with it. (What did he just say?)
I'm rather taller than most of the people Porsche tries to accommodate in their understanding of driving ergonomics.
I found that the center console in the 996 Cabriolet that I already owned (same interior as TT) interfered with pleasant use of the heel-toe rev-matching technique of which I am so fond. My lower leg was forced to crash into the console side when I tried to operate the pedals in this way. Very distracting to encounter while on a track, to say the least. The GT2/3 console delete option was unavailable for MY 2001 when I made the order.
I had heard from some Porsche racers here in Cincinnati that 996TT Tip test runs at the "Ring" showed the Tip cars to be far from slow. I then imagined that keeping both hands on the wheel while downshifting onto the "Keyhole" at Mid-Ohio would be more fun than the standard one-handed technique.
That was the theory. Since I haven't been able to make time to go to the track in the past three years, the fruits of the decision have yet to be sampled.
The TT Cab with the 6-speed is easier to explain. This car is a share-a-ride with my wife and SHE likes 6-speeds more than a Tip (and I can go either way), so that's what we have in the cabriolet
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Also, the cabriolet HAS to have memory seats, or it won't work for this duty (forget Euro-GT3 seats). She stands 5'0" (1,53 m) and I am 6'4" (1,93 m). In the old days, if she had been driving one of our cars with manual seats, I often had to go find her and ask her to get back in the car to move the seat away from the steering wheel so I could merely enter the car. Memory seats solve this issue completely.
Life is good