Mike in CA

It will be the same multifuction display that is currently in the Cayenne and Panamera. It can be configured with customized engine status and other data as well as being able to select among Nav, trip, phone, audio, map, TPMS, and settings menu screens.

rijowysock

i love my digital gauge...

wish it had MPG like the 997 does in the "info" list.. i hate having to go to vehicle->info->mileage

in my screen above i want to see: oil temp, coolant temp, battery and oil pressure... and then in the trip i wanna see miles to empty, miles per gallon, time driven and miles driven.

Ferdie

Sunroof is an option in Europe for 1700 Euros, doesn´t come standard.

texas911

Why did Porsche keep the sports chrono, they could have easily integrated it into the multi function display next to the tach.

texas911

Strange that they don't show the rear spoiler up in any of the pictures.

csorrows

I don't speak or read German, but I thought it was interesting that several of the subsystem names are in English. Seems to be the ones that commonly go by acronyms:

Page 44: Das Porsche Active Suspension Management (PASM)
Page 46: Die Porsche Dynamic Chassis Control (PDCC)
Page 53: Das Porsche Stability Management (PSM)
Page 54: Das Porsche Torque Vectoring (PTV)
Page 60: Die Porsche Ceramic Composite Brake (PCCB)
(and several others)

I find it interesting, because the PDK is still referred to as the Porsche Doppelkupplungsgetriebe.

Is it common in European primarily non-English speaking countries to use the English names for certain car features like this?

Also, I'm assuming "das" and "die" in German have something to do with gender of the noun? If that's the case, how is it decided what "gender" a PASM is, vs what a PCCB is? (or is das and die related to singular vs plural?)

Always wanted to learn German, seems a very interesting language to me.

Mike in CA

Das, der, and, die are gender specific pronouns (neuter, masculine, and feminine respectively). Die is also used as a plural pronoun for all genders. I don't think there's always a rhyme or reason to what makes a noun neuter, masculine, or feminine in German; you just have to learn which is which and I always had trouble with that. Plural is usually easier to understand. Perhaps since PCBB and PDCC are multiple systems (there are 4 brakes, 2 computer controlled sway-bars) that's why the plural pronoun is used.

Robert993TT

Yes, it is common that non-English speaking countries are using English names to describe features about cars, electronics etc. Some countries are better to protect their languages from importing words from English (read France). But with the music and the movies in English I think it more difficult to stop the English influence in non-English speaking countries. We live in an international world and overall it is not a bad thing to have words that is understood everywhere. Language is under constant change everywhere.

MJones

You can have the model designation removed but "PORSCHE" will remain!

You may have "911" replace the model designation.

kosmo

nothing a little dental floss cant remove!