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996AD said:
The new Tiptroic S sounds good from what I heared , since I'm going to use it daily in the city. but , the difference is 5sec!!
6speed= 4.8 s / Tiptronic= 5.3 s
did any one try the Tiptronic ? how was it ? and does 5 s makes alot of difference?
Aug 23, 2004 2:42:25 PM
Aug 23, 2004 6:07:56 PM
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Basalt said:
... Have a taste of the incredible car that it is and worry about losing a couple of grand later. After-all, you can afford one in the first place..
Aug 24, 2004 6:02:48 PM
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John SF 2005 997 S said:
COME on people? How can you drive a 911 Automatic????
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996AD said:
dhayek... Im using tiptronic too.. and it's annoying me , but i thought that maybe the new tiptronic is better . but here were i live most cars are over 300hp and on any light you stop there will be some one to race you.... most cars here are E55 kompressor modified by MKB
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Ferdie said:
So where do you live, if I may ask? I could imagine that the manual has a significant advantage at higher speeds also!
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John SF 2005 997 S said:
COME on people? How can you drive a 911 Automatic????
I have thought long and hard about this. At the moment I have an Auto X5 and a manual Z4 which gives me the perfect combination, except that having 2 cars is costing me a fortune and I don't get what I really want out of either.
I've decided to swap both for a new 997S which I should have in January. I live in central London, probably one of the most congested places in the world, but I do use my car for long road trips and I love driving a manual car.
So what to do? Put up with the annoyance of a manual in London traffic for my daily grind to the office for those seminal moments at the weekend or have the luxury and ease of an auto everyday and live with the fact that on my runs into the country I'll only get 9/10 of the real porsche experience?
Now I like to think of myself as a reasonably good manual driver. Didn't touch an auto 'box for the 1st 10 years of my driving life. But the other day the benefits of autos (esp the porsche tiptronic) was bought home to me when in real world conditions i was "racing" a friend in a boxster tip vs my Z4 3.0 manual. On paper the Box is about half a second down on 0-60 times but in the real world the tiptronic 'box is very flattering as you can really access that performance without dumping the clutch from 4000 revs.
Now I know its not all about the traffic light Grand Prix but my point is that on an average road, and average driver will get better performance from an auto than a manual and like playing Grand Tourismo in auto mode, this allows you to concentrate on all the other aspects of driving (steering, braking etc) and get those far better without having to swap cogs.
What am I going for? 997S tiptronic - after that probably swap for the DSG when it comes out.
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997C2S said:
Ones who have driven stick most of their lives, would not even ponder on this question, but if you are debating about it, then most likely you have had not much experience driving stick, and considering the fact that you are buying such an expensive car, and obviously you want to enjoy your car and not worry about burning the clutch, you would be better off with automatic.
I live in Toronto, and sometimes our highways become very congested and sometimes to worsen the problem, we also get lots of snow, but that has never made feel uncomfortable driving stick; and if I ever decided to go with auto, then it will be the day when the machine beats me in changing gears.