Re: 997 Turbo - Official performance
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MKSGR said:Quote:
Carlos from Spain said:Quote:
CF said:
There's nothing wrong or inferior with the "NEW" manual gearbox for the 997 Turbo.
It's the Tiptronic that's been completely redesigned and now offer what's technologically possible for a Tiptronic gearbox, and that just happens to be better than what a manual gearbox has to offer in terms of acceleration numbers at certain speed intervals.
To me it seems that some of you would prefer if they held back the development of the Tiptronic gearboxes in order to make the manual more competitive.
Ok then, since you keep mentioning that is all because the Tiptronic that's been completely redesigned then tell us how exactly does the NEW 5-speed torque converter Tip achieves the performance of a 6-speed dual-clucth and betters the performance of the Ferrari and BMW 6-speed secuentials? what has been redesigned? .. that would stop all the hypothesising, so what are you basing your statement on?
They can redesign as much as they like: The Tip will be slower (compared to manual) between 200kph and top-speed as it has only five gears.
That seriously ticks me off.
Another thing, regarding the gearbox: how can it be so weak? The old 996TT gearbox could safely handle the Ruf 590 level (850 Nm) without any problems whatsoever, so what's the deal? What I still don't get is how the Tip gains another 4/10 of a second between 100 and 160 km/h, with a higher weight to power ratio and lower gears.
