348SStb

You might know this already… but for those who don’t — Preuringer has stated flatly that the necessary space for the 6-speed GT3 gearbox does not exist; and he isn’t going to engineer a new manual transmission specifically for the 718.

Don’t know why he wouldn’t. Porsche prints profit faster than the US Treasury prints tender. They are money grabbing on almost every model now with big time margins — even if it were €150 million to research and develop the new transmission starting 3 years ago, they easily recoup that.

Westcoast

Not really challenging you but do you actually have a link to either printed information or a video where he states this? I don't think they have to engineer a completely new transmission for this application...

raymort

I would prefer a MT, but I wouldn’t pass on this just because it doesn’t.

If a MT version comes out, just trade this in on that one.

Regarding the top and tracking this car, I bet most buyers have another car they can track…

348SStb

I can’t dig it up right now (getting back on the road — road trip in North Carolina canyons &#128515 but it was in an interview with an automotive journalist and reported in writing… maybe see if you can find it using an internet search in the meantime.

It was a discussion about the gear ratios in the 718 Spyder/GT4 which he acknowledged to be quite tall — he said he cannot swap the GT3 box because it doesn’t fit; he also said changing the green ratios would be a huge undertaking resulting in a different transmission altogether which is wouldn’t do.

Westcoast

Sure that is possible, but if the MT never comes then I will have given up my perfectly spec'd 6MT Spyder.

As for the track, I would only have one car that I can take there, the Spyder or Spyder RS, and 200 KPH is not enough.

raymort

I think I recall the same sentiment from AP, but he also said the GT3 engine wouldn’t fit and would never be in a Cayman platform…until it did.

Westcoast

Again, part of the discussion, but there are multiple sources for gears that work in the manual transmissions for these cars, and regarding the MT in the GT3, wasn't it actually a modified PDK, hence the 7 speeds as opposed to 6 in the normal MT?

Manifold

Tracking a ~500 hp car with no top is a non-starter for me. And I'd wager that less than 5% of these cars will be regularly tracked, probably less than 1%.

It's basically a PDK-only Spyder with a 9k rpm engine, not a real RS car in any meaningful sense.

raymort

Any rumor on when allocations will be released for the US market?

348SStb

If you can order a Spyder RS, please do so! You won’t care that it’s PDK once you take it around the first backroads turn. You have other manual transmission cars, as do many of us; we will step into those for a manual experience.

raymort

Yep, I tracked a Turbo GT. I’ll be doing that again with the new model way before the Spyder RS.

Westcoast

I would take a SRS to the track, for the experience, not to run the best lap times or run with the crowd, but to explore what the car has to offer, so lets take the RS out of the name, add the manual transmission and head out to the canyons!

348SStb

Oh it’s a real RS car. Has suspension hardware from the 991.2 GT3 RS. Will be way more hardcore than the 718 Spyder, which is a good thing since the 718 Spyder is not quite edgy enough for many.

By the way - the Spyder variants have a lower center of gravity than their Cayman siblings — that roof in the Cayman and the body around it weigh something. I had a Cayman 4.0 GTS and I noticed the body roll and higher center of gravity compared with my two Boxster variants (981 and 982).

lilbza

256 pages in and people still whinging about the transmission 😂 I don't even know why you'd bother hanging in this thread when it's clear the car is not for you.

Bents

On the way to Starbucks?