groundhog

lol defend your position - all you have is clutch pedal and a car with a PDK based gear box

bergx7

Guys, clearly the real question we should be revisiting is whether the 991 is a real GT3

#MetzgerGangStrikesAgain
#imkidding
#ihaveboth
#iloveManualandPDK

AdamSanta85

If the transmission has a mode that will shift for you, called "automatic", it is not a manual.

FORENN

Lol. Some are delusional, some are just trolling. Hard to tell the difference sometimes.

mwar99

Who cares?

neanicu

But I press that clutch myself and I send hydraulic fluid to the slave cylinder,which in turn moves the throwout bearing,which in turn applies pressure to the pressure plate,which in turn disengages the transmission from the engine. Then by moving the gear level,cables actually move a collar inside the transmission,which in turn engages the next gear via synchronizers.

pdk already engages automatically the next gear and when you flip a paddle you are sending an electronic command to the transmission control module,which in turn actuates shift motors,which in turn engage the already pre-selected gear. If pdk was a manual it would allow the end user to overrev the engine. Try downshifting into a lower gear when the RPMs are too high for that gear with pdk and see what happens. Now try the same with manual. You see the difference?

9eight7

This is a great thread!

Would you consider auto-rev match doing heal-toe?

Dr.Bill

Is Jack Daniels bourbon?

fxz

an old saying,
if my grandma had the wheels
she was a wheelbarrow

Dougr743

no it is not. although many do not know the difference, just like many think a PDK is a manual. IF a woman has a *****, is she a women?

CAlexio

Oooh, now its getting complex.. (boredom is rampant on this forum until more 992 GT3 info comes out and we can start the same speculation cycle all over again)

fxz

Manumatic, a portmanteau of the words manual and automatic, is a term referring to a class of automotive transmission.

Manumatic refers to an automatic transmission that allows convenient driver control of gear selection.


so the PDK is not a manual transmission
it is a manumatic transmission

thread closed?

Dougr743

jack daniels is closer to bourbon , than a pdk is closer to a manual.

BSO

This is all marketing BS, like calling a 4-door sedan a "coupe', a Taycan a "Turbo" whatever, it's a deliberate effort to blur distinctions and obfuscate. Like the "GT", "Sport" or any other fantasy applied to pedestrian vehicles that are nothing similar to what their "name" implies.

Every automatic transmission I've ever owned or driven can be shifted:"manually", placed in a gear selection that will hold until the selector is moved to another gear or placed back in "D".

A PDK is the same, though it's light years ahead of the dumb automatics from years back. It has paddle-shifters that allow you to go up/down or place in "D" for self-shifting, same as before.

When I was shopping for my Porsche, I ran into the same BS on dealer/seller listings that identified a model as manual only to discover that it was a PDK. This was done deliberately or by a lack of knowledge or both. Bait and switch/click-bait.

Ignore the misinformation and move on.

groundhog

Just goes to show how little some so called enthusiasts know or are aware of - if you select the timing of the gear change with a paddle and the gear box clutch system operates in exactly the same way as a conventional manual it’s a manual period - foot or hand actuated thats the difference - the fact that PDK can also do this automatically in street or track optimised form as well is immaterial.

The reality is the manual gear box in contemporary Porsche sports cars is in fact a cut down version of the PDK box - all of the above is factually accurate and correct.