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MMD said:
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69bossnine said:
Are you that obsessive and calculated in the sack?
LOL.. Man..., 69bn..., you're good..., you're reeeeal good!
Not going with the sex analogy, but it would be fun because "slipping out of gear," or "overrevving the downshift" have alot of comedy potential.
Seriously though, I see driving this car like a game of golf or trap shooting or whatever..., making mistakes takes the joy out of it. Except for fatigue of a long drive or a cop or brain-dead driver distracting you, there's no reason 99% of shifting shouldn't be perfect seamless driver interaction in these "special" cars (not kidding)
I dunno.
Special or not, it's still just a car, and shifting is shifting, and your desire for 99% "perfect" shifts (done not by you) applies a ludicrous standard for shifting adequacy... It's literally like saying "if I write my own book reports for my Literary Classics course, I might only get a 93% grade average on them.. But if I pay this service for my reports, I'll get 100% average, and those novels DESERVE that standard of review!...
Don't you get it? Part of the satisfaction of driving is the pride of knowing you did it yourself... Where's the pride in flipping the paddles... That you were successful enough to afford the car and the option?
Sometimes, when you've gotta live with the results, you get a professional to do it for you, i.e. build a deck, tailor a suit...
I very much understand the logic by which others are using to justify their desire for the PDK... I get their posts completely... But your "the car deserves perfect shifts all the time" thing totally baffles me... I honestly don't see how you make it out of the driveway, given your obsession with perfection (and dirty wheels
).
I mean, c'mon, do you really hit every apex perfectly as you're winging through the supermarket parking lot? Are you rev-matching the downshift as you pull into the Shell station? Are you knocking-out beautiful lightning-fast no-slip upshifts as you follow the UPS truck, with the clapped-out Dominos Pizza delivery guy tucked in behind you?
You're taking driving a Porsche to goof-ball extremes... You're going to cause me to have to pull mine out, and video tape a bunch of gawdawful mis-cues and shifting gaffs, and then I'll post 'em, and then picture you with your hands on the sides of your head Home-Alone-style shrieking NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!! IT'S A PORSCHE!!!!!!!
(Sorry, got carried away with the humor... But really, lighten-up, get over it, it's shifting.... The car can take it, it's not a fragile little flower...)
