JCviggen

It's especially funny because Porsche renamed the SPORT button on manual GT cars to AUTO BLIP because that's all it was doing and they thought the naming was confusing vs the function on PDK cars. (paraphrased quote from an engineer they had out at a launch)

On a 982 GT4 or Spyder, auto blip does not alter throttle mapping, it does not alter the thermostat target either so what is "sport" about it?

Matt previously passed on some second hand "info" that 4.0 BGTS engines are mechanically different from 4.0 GT4/Spyder. Suffice to say Porsche disagrees with that also, I've asked.

It does not.

Jim Rockford

I think on certain other models the only way to access auto blip was to turn on sport mode or something. He’s likely confusing the operation of his Spyder with that. I think this is just misinformation and because he’s on TV everyone is questioning themselves now. Nice to see Matt doing his part to raise the profile of the Spyder though. Hopefully he will do more videos on his car.

Brian_RPV

I had a 2014 Cayman S with a manual transmission that had a sport mode switch; when activated you could definitely notice a change in the engine mapping.
I now have a 2022 718 Spyder and can’t feel any difference in the engine responsiveness when in auto blip is activated. I watched the same Video and was confused as well when I heard Matt mentioned sport mode being activated by turning on auto blip. I think he just got some incorrect information.

John Mclane

On PIWIS, the auto blip is the sport button indeed, but there's no sport setting programmed to it, only the blip portion. I was messing with PIWIS and I got the sport symbol (right dash) to pop up when I press sport just like in the cars with the steering ****.
I think it was AP that said that these cars are always on sport mode.

poofyo101

on my
981 gt4 (sport chrono) sport is the autoblip
981 cayman s (PDK) has to have chrono to have sport plus mode which I have

sgreer78

It did in the 981 GT4.

JCviggen

No longer the case for 718 if MT. PDK sport does drop the temp. In the MT cars it only does so after you floor it for a few seconds.

In any case there is 0 reason why Farah needs to use auto blip if he doesn't want to. Even if there's a magic sport mode it has never given you any more power it just changed the throttle mapping. So none of it makes any sense.​​​​​​​

flynlo

Thanks for asking this question. I just got finished with that video and went onto the internet to figure out WTH he was talking about and first hit was this thread. I do believe Matt was misinformed. And I think it might have come from the man himself, Mr. Deman, based on his one post on this thread and Matt’s explanation on the video. Unless the Deman modified engine has a mode attached to the button, the button only does exactly what it says it does….auto blip. I think this misinformation comes from the differences between the 981 and 718 GT cars. One of the things I like most about these cars is that there are no modes. You get all of the car all of the time.

UncleDude

It has been pointed out to Matt a few times in his instagram thread and YouTube but he seemingly doesn't care to correct the record or clarify what that button has been programmed to do on his car. He's got bigger fish to fry I guess!

Bents

I am shocked at the breaking news that he doesn’t know what he’s talking about.

UncleDude

At least he said it with confidence 😂