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I want those red buttons there. I am like Homer Simpson when it comes to large red buttons. I have to punch it.
I wonder what those prototype red buttons do - ejector seats? lol
One is likely engine (ignition / battery / alternator / fuel pump), the one with an F is likely a fire extinguishing system (fire in German is Feuer, so the letter would still apply). Don't know what the third is. One appears to say DME; perhaps it switches fuel maps but I don't know why it would be important enough to be red.
Such buttons are fairly standard in prototypes these days (and of course required in professional race cars).
To get those buttons from the factory you usually need to get a Cup Car or an RSR..
Originally Posted by chuckbdc
For the next T, they could combine the key and the shift nub dongle and claim it saves unsprung weight.
That would be sprung weight. Unless you normally tape your key to the brake rotor. Sprung weight is exactly that: the parts of the car that are suspended by the suspension (which is of course, most of the car).
Last edited by FrenchToast; 12-07-2018 at 04:53 PM.
It looks like there are buttons for Park and Manual so they’ve gone the way of a push-button shifter. There doesn’t appear to be a way of shifting with the lever so maybe the electric razor is here to stay.
Well since my current GTS got totaled on WED I will be purchasing a 991.2 with PDK so I get to have a shifter for a few more years. If that ridiculous shaver is there in the 992, I will be going back to a manual tranny when I get ready to buy the 992. The members of my PCA club who use PDK all concur that they routinely use the shifter to select gear changes besides the paddles like when holding a coffee or eating something and you cannot get to the paddles like in a big turn, etc. There are numerous reasons to shift gears with the shifter. This is 100% unsat. If you don't agree then you are in the minority because of 100% of our local PCA club is in agreement with me. Come on PCNA listen to your customers. We don't care for the little nebula shaver ****. Porsche is taking out the character that makes the 911 a "Driver's Car".
08-31-2018, 12:57 PM
Sprung weight is exactly that: the parts of the car that are suspended by the suspension (which is of course, most of the car).
