Team Plutonium

I turned 43 so my wife told me I need to finally start acting like an adult. I'll give it a week...

RobC4sX51

After 2 left knee surgeries (old college football injury) and 55 years old, the PDK does it for me. Plus, my wife drives my car when I need her V8 Touareg to take the ski boat out w the buds. And now she doesn't stall it or complain about driving it one bit😀! Do I miss shifting? Sure, sometimes, but the PDK is so much more than an auto trans!

thomnellie

Don't bother. Acting like an adult just leads to depression.

LexVan

They should. The 991 GT3 has PDK Plus. Right??

chuckbdc

Here's one for you to mull over.

I was about to buy a 991 Turbo but despite being very way faster than my C2S, the PDK behavior made it come across as being at the "luxury" end of the Lux to Sporty dimension for my taste. Being both sporty and cheap I am still driving the C2S.

I have no actual evidence, but I would bet that the software that governs the shift speeds and character is set to:
- soften the shifts for the Turbo (maybe to mask turbo lag),
- be firmer for the S, and
- be more purposely snappy on the GT3 (magnified by stiffer paddle machinery).

Team Plutonium

Drive a turbo with PDK in sport plus and there is nothing soft about the shifts, I can assure you.

Larry Cable

After driving my new GTS Cabriolet around Germany, including a few laps of the ring, I'm on the fence, some of the things I like and dislike about PDK are:

likes:
- no f**king torque converter in sight!
(engine room? - bridge, connect all main boilers, make revolutions for 55mph tring-tring [sounds of engine rm telegraph ringing on the knots])

- very fast shifts (on track)

dislikes:
- in normal and sport modes its optimized for fuel economy and short shifts with a love for 7th, this is fine for a minivan and SUV, not so good for a sportscar

- I find myself losing track of which gear I am actually "in" something that does not happen with a manual

- kickdown, not a feature you want while track driving - this should be disabled at least in Sport+

Its a great transmission, but I think to fully experience 'how' the car should drive IMO you need to drive it in Sport+, in all the other modes you might as
well be a soccer mom in a Honda...

All, in all, I'm an MT fan, but since I got this particular car so that the wife could also drive it I will enjoy the PDK, as its clearly a great technology, programmed for the wrong driving experience (for me)

STG

Can we have a poll??

Well endowed PDK shifter or shriveled up manual leather sack??

Team Plutonium

This is getting lame...

STG

It got lame after the first page!

mschuster

With only limited test drives wringing the car out in the hills, my thoughts:

Manual mode only, Sport or Sport+ only, never Normal for the most fun.

Need a lighter touch to stay out of Kickdown. However, on full throttle curve exits, nice to use Kickdown's Kickup feature which shifts up at redline. Avoids having to time the manual shift exactly at redline, and avoids risk of rev-limiter upsetting balance.

Redline mph is about 45, 78, and 107 in 1-3 gears. In the hills in 1-2 almost always, 3rd rarely. Never seemed to be confused which gear in use.

Also found the Tapdown feature nice to have, a fast way to go down the gears after a rest.

Mike

GSIRM3

I usually drive mine in manual mode, but when in auto mode and Sport, I have never had mine go into 7th gear. If I am in normal mode/automatic and the car is in 7th, the car immediately downshifts to 6th when i change to Sport mode. Seems strange that your car "likes" 7th gear so much when in Sport mode.

Archimedes

Same, takes a loooong time cruising on the highway for my Cayman S to drop from 6th into 7th if I'm in Sport mode. I find the shift points in Sport Auto to adapt really well to how I'm driving, but I too prefer manual mode most of the time.

PDK1965

Cheekymonkeyman

Aluminium trim on the PDK.... Nice... Just like mine.... Love it (and yes that aluminium trim does make the car go faster).
Only difference is mine leans to the left