Thank you, the weather here is foul at the moment, so it's early days. First impressions are more likely down to my move from 996 to 997 but the PDK seems excellent and I can't see anyone being disappointed by the performance. I'm impressed by the extent of the .2 facelift and I suppose we have Nissan to thank for that. The paddle wheel is great btw, quite thick as you can see and not at all as garish as I had feared.

It sounds like the first US cars are being built to a standard launch specification to get them to market. Here in Europe, it's interesing that my car was built on 7 December and just 8 days later, it was at the dealer and 3 days after that in my garage.

[Edit: worth also mentioning that due to a New Year price rise and an increase in our sales tax here in the UK (VAT), the car now costs $7700 more than it did two weeks ago. Ouch.]