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intouch1 said:
if there are no paddles, i believe its mainly the stick that will be used to shift and the tiptronic buttons are on the wheel as an alternative method.
it could also be due to the nature of dsg that it is not as shift intensive as the f1 tranny. its just a better and more efficient design in auto mode. virtually no shift lag.
then again for pure testing they do not really need to put in the paddles if they still intend to conceal whats going on.
anyway...its somehow dissappointing that porsche's R&D team seems to have been vacationing in jamaica for the since the intro of the 997.....
Well, I'm not sure that many PDK/DSG buyers intended to use the stick to shift - surely the point of sequential manuals is to shift with both hands in control and on the wheel? (though some BMW SMG drivers claim to use both methods depending on how hairy their steering motions are).
As for PDK being less shift intensive - the only way a PDK is less shift intensive is to keep it in automatic mode; in the manual mode that most Rennteamers are looking for, you will shift exactly as many times as you would in any other variant of DSG, or a manual for that matter.
Moogle and other posters have argued that all these transmissions are just more techie-acceptable variants of traditional automatics - likely a bit of truth there, but to enthusiasts or track fans, the manual mode of PDK shifting is critical. I for one have more and more respect for Ferrari's engineering smarts...
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