if it helps, same 10% or less are manuals in the DFW area also. (as per my SA) most 911s here are speced for resale, so conservative colors (silver/black/grey) and leather, good sound system and PDK. yes manuals are hard to sell also.

 

She should get the PDK...is it worth being uncomfortable driving a$150K+ car to get a few thousand extra on resale. The difference in resale is only pronounced in the GT cars, and in cars with Tiptronic (ie. before PDK came out).

 

Just the opposite for me. Pdk to a manual and the manual is much more “involving” to me. Bored by the pdk. To each their own. Tell your friend to do her, who cares what random people online think.

 

Zoomers don't even want to drive let alone drive a manual. More people will want pdks down the line. More people want them now as well.

 

after multiple cancer surgeries, I am handicapped with a bar left arm. Hence I opted for a 911 GTS with PDK. Amazing transmission and sport plus mode is unbelievable.

fortunately I still have my 1988 turbo S to take out whenever the urge hits t row the gears.

 

For those of you with knee pain, I strongly suggest seeing a physical therapist to start. I’m not advocating a transmission here but I’m just so surprised how many people put up with that. Modern day medicine can help you get back and being fully active let alone pushing a pedal. There is everything from ultrasound with heat to the other spectrum, knee replacement which heals much faster these days. Why drive a Porsche only to live life in pain???

 

I’ve been driving manual for many years, as a daily.

The knee pain doesn’t arise from only the repetitive motion of operating a clutch, but from the culmination of all activities in life that stress the same body parts repeatedly.

When you do begin to experience pain (and we all will at some point in our lives), it is wise to reduce those stresses to inhibit the situation from getting worse.

 

Ha! In 65. I swim 1.5 miles 3 days a week, I do high impact interval training twice a week. I still swim a mile in 27 minutes flat. After my mile, i do intervals including butterfly. Ive been working out regularly since i was 14. I hike. I'm currently in England about to embark on a 12 day trek where we will be doing 10-12 miles per day (with a 20 lb pack). One woman in our group is 81! I'm an avid dirtbiker. I typically get out twice/week. I'll be riding the 6 Days of Michigan this year. Dirtbiking is incredibly tough and grueling. I was a pole vaulter in HS and college. My wife and i are avid scuba divers and take 2-3 dive trips per year. Ive dived 5 times a day for 14 dsys straight. Been on 50 dedicated dive trips and currently have 5 more booked (3 to Indonesia, 1 to Fiji, and 1 to Malpelo.) I mulch my own gardens. Typically 25 yards/year with a shovel and wheel barrow. I push hard pretty much 6 dsys a week. My father is 92. He walks 2 miles/day, plays pickleball twice a week, and golf's 9 holes twice a week(walks). My body fat is 9.5%. Higher than HS, but I weigh 5 lbs less than HS. I was a skydiver for about 5 years. I snowboarded for 25 years but stopped because it doesn't snow in PA anymore. I can still water-ski barefoot and backwards.

I have a pretty good collection of scars that I'm proud of. The day I wake up without pain, I'll know I died.

If you prefer an automatic, fine. Drive what you want. And i honestly have genuine sympathy for anyone with mobility issues. But to say that operating a clutch and a shifter is too strenuous, is a pretty lame (pun!) excuse.