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Or a hostage-taking opportunity.
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No, just tell 'em the cupholders don't work and he won't want the car.
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I don't really care if all these fancy new computerized transmissions are technically faster, if I ever buy another sporty car it's manual transmission or nothing.
I pretty much find all these computerized transmissions nonsense except for CVTs. They are surely all ridiculous things that the engineers were forced to build because marketing/management wanted them to. The designs of things like dual-clutch transmissions and 9-speed slush box automatics are so needlessly complicated and expensive for what they achieve. |
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I got my 911 new in Dec. '96, so I've been shifting that thing for a little under 21 years. No cupholder, but have to admit I found an aftermarket thingamajig that hooks to the passenger seat rail so you can take along a cup of coffee or whatever. The bike, of course, has multiple beverage holders.
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On the other hand I am really enjoying my new Alfa Giulia Quadrifoglio even though it is an automatic with paddle shifters. I don't listen to the radio in this car or eat in it. Just fun driving. The problem is I am having so much fun that today I went for a test drive in an Alfa 4C. The Alfa Romeo in my blood was dormant for over 30 years but now I can't control it. Jeff |
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I may be an infidel but I'd take a PDK any day, all day. I've paid my dues rowing gears. May call into question my manhood but I'm cool with that.
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Same here...in fact I have taken one! Panamera 4s. Plenty lively when in the "manual mode" and shifts well when in "sport plus mode" too.
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My MINI Cooper S is manual but Leslie usually drives a 2014 Mazda3 2.5L w/6 speed auto. It is an excellent tranny in normal drive. It has paddle shifters that allow immediate shifts up/down at any time even when the floor shifter is in Normal Drive. If I push the sport button the tranny drives like I was going for top-time-of-the-day on a track. I've won a few time trials so I know how that works. :-) Mazda offers very good manual set-ups but I think I would still choose the automatic in a car that was MY daily driver. It's a real boon in our often congested traffic and there is no downside for performance and/or economy.
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I will add one thing to this. After owning 3 x 911's, I can say that no other car feels/drives/reacts/steers the way a 911 does. Once you spend a few hundred miles in one under many different driving conditions, you will not want to drive any other vehicle. It's that good!
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Yes, you are correct and I was in error. I went by the brochure that PCNA sends me.
You know how marketing these days is direct and targeted to a very refined degree? This then is how getting pitched a PDK car by PCNA is disconcerting: I think of myself as a motorsports performance driving enthusiast driving a 1234567R. PCNA, through extensive data mining & marketing analytics, sees me as a middle-aged, balding, paunchy, philandering-optional, age-crisis sportscar buyer driving a PRNDL. Sod it, I'll just buy a Buick. |
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Sadly, Porsche makes only about 10% of all their sports cars stick shift versions. And the turbo and GT versions there is no option to even order a stick. I'm not a retro grouch when it comes to too many things and I know a PDK transmission is .1 second faster from 0-60, but for me...a sports car needs to have 3 pedals!
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I have had both manual and PDK 911's. They are all wonderful. For the 991.1, where all the torque still requires a higher rpm, swapping to manual mode allows me to drive in a more spirited way. In prndl, it drives like a sedate commuter. Kind of.
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