Any new info on the S and if it's T-HEV or will have manual option?

 

As before: Surely T-HEV and no manual.

 

Will you guys go for the 992.2 even if manual transmission was not available? Just curious how you guys are thinking

 

Rennlist cited:

https://www.carscoops.com/2024/05/th...ake-any-sense/

 

If you went a new “S”, you really don’t have much choice or have to look at something else. This will put even more price pressure on those who want a Porsche 7spd manual.

This was the reason I grabbed a .1 allocation last month as I was unsure if it was rumor or fact.

 

Witness protection coming up LOL

 

Kind of hilarious how one post is starting a wildfire of a rumor across the Internet and full circle comes back to the same forum it started at.

 

Actually, Silversurfer cited!

 

They got the wrong Surfer though!

 

@silversurfer6 you are a POPULAR man. Going to Porsche prison. 😂
* fixed

 

I have no idea what y’all are talking about but please stop tagging me 😆

- Silversurfer

 

@silversurfer6 is the correct forum member. Just want to make sure the Porsche Bundespolizei get the right man 😉

 

You have a similar RL moniker named @silversurfer6 and you were quoted as being the potential rumormonger on the upcoming release of the new 992.2 in error

 

Hilarious. Y'all got the wrong guy in the lineup. Keyser Soze walked right out.

 

I really like your comments about the aesthetics.

The ".1" cars are honed to perfection by the designers, and they religiously follow a very specific design philosophy.

With the ".2" cars, the designers are forced to make changes, but they are only allowed to change the plastic parts in the front and rear. They can not change or contour the sheet metal to flow into their new bumper designs. So they are very limited with what they can do.

To "refresh" the car for a ".2", the designers must abandon their original design philosophy.

For example the 992’s design philosophy was to highlight the horizontal. The wide black front grill, the single horizontal taillight, the "single element" on the rear bumper that incorporates the turbo outlets, the exhausts, and the license plate are all a part of this philosophy, and these elements tie into the wide horizontal layout of the dash in the interior of the car.

Everything was "coherent", as you said.

With the 992.2, this harmony is lost, for the sake of change. The purity of the design philosophy will be muddled.

For reference, see this clip (item #4 at 1:15) where Peter Varga, Director of Exterior Design, explains the rear bumper design of the 992.1.