Jim986

I found out after watching a few videos that you can also manually shift the PDK with the center console gear selector by pulling it back to upshift and bumping it forward to downshift. This being my first PDK after many years of manuals I find this much more like manual shifting than using the paddles.

I’m sure everyone else knows this but mentioning it just in case.

MingusDew

Thanks, Jim. How do you like it?

Larson E. Rapp

Enjoy it while it lasts, no longer possible in 992 (or the 95B.3 Macans).

I use this feature very often in my own PtAg 2013 981BS, even after upgrading the wheel+paddles. It would be missed.

Cyclman

Using the paddles is more like an F1 or Indycar driver…to each their own.

Larson E. Rapp

But using the stick is more like an astronaut or a fighter pilot.

Porsche911GTS'16

Yes, the 992.1 generation Carreras and Turbos lost the functionality of the gear shifter with the introduction of the "nubbin." It appears the 992.2 generation Carrera and Turbo will have the nubbin as well (based on spy shots). Thankfully, the 992.1 GT cars maintained a gear shifter in the PDK variants. None other than Andreas Preuninger said that he enjoys shifting GT cars with PDK with the gear shifter rather than the paddles, so it is no wonder the GT cars were, thankfully, spared the nubbin.

RennListUser01

Which direction?

Larson E. Rapp

So when he said that paddles were for "grandmas," he was really just saying that Real Men use the shifter instead. Look in the dictionary under "Talks his book" and you'll see a picture of AP.

What's nice is having both options. That way, no matter where your hands are, it's always easy to initiate a manual shift. Of course the question of 'which direction' will always come up, but fortunately both the 9x1 and 95B(.2) work the same way, and I had never had a chance to get accustomed to the opposite +/- direction. Worst-case would be owning two cars at the same time that worked differently...

InTgr8r

At the track I much prefer the paddles for sheer performance with hands always on the wheel.
But on the street I use the console shifter all the time.
For me it's a more gratifying experience, reminiscent of my 3 peddle days.

What has made it even more gratifying is the change to the GT4 RS shifter & boot.
I absolutely love it!!

chuckbdc

And then there was Porsche's brilliant design for, ahem, buttons on left and right of the 991.1 steering wheel, either which down or up shift.

rensoyka

don't track the car so always drive with one hand except in really bad weather or hard corners. paddles FTW, even in auto mode I still use them sometimes.

rensoyka

this is why a must option when I bought was the GT sport steering wheel, no buttons at all, just 4 stalks and 2 paddles.

HkPlinker

Push forward to push your car faster
Pull back to slow your car down is how I remembered

spdracerut

F1 and Indycar drivers of the 80s/90s used sequential shifters I think WRC drivers were still using sequential into the 2000s.

spdracerut

Everyday cars like Hyundai and Nissan do it this way. But sports-oriented cars like Porsche and Mazda are push forward to downshift and pull back to upshift. The reason being is that when you're on track or just driving hard in general, you'll pull 1G plus on the brakes. It's MUCH easier to push forward to downshift while hard on the brakes rather than fight acceleration forces and trying to pull back against 1G. And then when you're accelerating, again, using the G forces in the same direction as pulling the shifter to upshift.