Groove, once again you asked the wrong question - let me fix it for you - What oil is the best brand for our cars?

 

After 36 years of Porsche ownership ---> "Give me Manual transmission or give me death"

 

Not to shanghai this thread - but you can count me as a member of the "I used to have a TR-6" club. It was a '74 as well. Dark blue over med. blue. Michelin red stripes. Luggage rack on the rear deck. Even in its day it was a rolling anachronism. But I loved that car.

 

Here you go.

 

NC allows you to run vintage tags.

 

LOL. That's funny enough that I'd wear it even though my car is a PDK.

And yes, sometimes you just have an itchy vagina.

 

And this is where we see the real reason Groove started this thread. Just another excuse to post his 911 pics.

 

Next we'll be hearing that "REAL men" drive SILVER 911's only.

Oh wait, I do see a red one in there.

Sorry Ma'am.

 

I still remember the day I picked it up....God she was gorgeous!!

Tom

 

Sweet beauty!! Lucky man!

Tom

 

This is Priceless!

 

Any chance I can get----> And all Manual Transmissions

 

You got me. I like scratching my vagina When Honda came out with auto motorcycle I went wtf? My 997.2 is first 2 pedal in decades and when get another 911 to garage with my current one it’ll be 3 pedal. Looked for PDK and sport Chrono in current because of DD in DFW traffic.

 

Thanks. My brain says that owning any British car is a terrible idea, but this one has been in the family for about 40 years. My uncle retired and bought a new Mustang convertible and offered it to me for a price I couldn’t say no to. Surprisingly, it’s been more reliable than I expected it to be, and a heckuvalot of fun.

 

Yes, I guess the thread was started as a manual vs. "automatic". But to introduce the TIP as the automatic alternative to a manual instead of the now 11 year old PDK representing the automatic kind of sends this thread in the wrong direction imo. The differences between the TIP and the PDK are so vast that it's hard to know where to begin. For starters, the TIP is/was a regular automatic slush box. Almost fail proof to be fair but hardly a good fit for a sports car. The PDK is a manual transmission with two clutches and all kinds of electronics that compares in no way to the TIP except that you can drive it like an automatic if you want to.

Another thing that keeps coming up is that many who have driven a PDK car have either driven one without sport chrono or they drove one with sport chrono but didn't know how to get the most out of it. Some have said something along the lines of "sport plus is too much for me". Why? In manual mode it's the same as sport mode, only quicker shifts.

So to the OP's question of preference, these would be mine:

1. Manual vs. TIP: Manual (easy choice)
2. Manual vs. PDK without sport chrono: Manual (almost as easy)
3. Manual vs. PDK with sport chrono: PDK