PDK is Awesome
6 Speed, for my personal ownership, ( I have an ' 06 S 6 Sp)
but It's going to make people think, what they really want .
I think when real veteran, Porsche customers drive it; there will be a rush for this new experience.... Porsche cars predicts 50/50 ; I don't think so. 80/20 is more like it; and I am a die hard Shifting , rev matching; heel toeing nut case; and it's obvious to me.This PDK does everything, perfectly. When I drove the first car yesterday,
I got kinda choked up; because I was driving what we have all been waiting for; for about 2 decades. A sequentiial gearbox, direct injection Monster with Launch Control !
Speaking of that; oh Boy. That is the best .... It actaully
feels like it's lighting up the tires a little bit.The acceleration is tremendous. The way it bangs second gear is
just right. The shifts in this PDK are absolutely un-audible
in normal mode, when driving the car smoothly. You just watch the gear indicator go from 1 to 7 with virtually no knowledge that it's actually changing gear.That's great..
Then when you engage Sport Plus, oh my Gosh...the shifts are instantaneous ( 1/1000 Second ) and very satisfying
every time. I think it's great that if you go to max RPM in any gear; it doesn't shift up , as a default. It's sits on the rev limiter untill you shift up. Just like a manual box.
That's the way it should be. If any of you don't order Sport Chrono, with you PDK; forget about it .........
Porsche call's it " Tune-ability " . You have Normal, Sport,
and Sport Plus; all with different characters of driving.
Not to mention "Launch Control"..... good luck trying to re-sell a PDK with out Sport Chrono.....The new 3.8 liter motor
pulls like a freight train, all the way to the top. You can feel the efficiency of that 12.5 to 1 compression ratio, all of the time; not to mention the DFI effect ! Great new
911 motor ! I'm sure the 3.6 will be super, too.Furthermore,
don't forget to order the new Dynamic Cornering Lights, unless you want last years headlight assemblies; on your New
997....... The shifting position , and operation, on the new thick PDK steering wheel take's a little getting used to, but then it's intuative. I don't know what all the
hoopla is all about. It feel great.You can always shift on the very mechanical feeling shift knob, which is right on.
I think that you will agree; this is a very High Performance advancement made by Porsche ! This new Carrera
S is a Super Car ! I hope you will share my opinion; when you get a chance to experience it.
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