MJones

NAVIGATION IMPROVEMENTS: “Extended Navigation” included

SERVICING INTERVALS
North America
• Oil change: 12,000 miles/20,000 km-1 year.
• Spark plug Change: For naturally aspirated engines: 36,000
miles/60,000 km-4 years.
• Spark plug Change: 911 Turbo, and GT3/GT3 RS: 24,000
miles/40,000 km-4 years.

NEW COLORS

• Macadamia Metallic – New! (replaces Atlas Grey Metallic, which
moves to Special Colors)
• Ruby Red Metallic – New! (replaces Carmona Red Metallic)
• Malachite Green Metallic – New! (replaces Dark Teal Metallic)

Interior Colors:
Special Colors

• Carrera Red – New! (replaces Standard color Palm Green,
which is discontinued)

SPORTS SEATS
• Lightweight racing-style sports
bucket seat in leather.
• Optimally shaped for use in highly dynamic driving situations.
• High degree of lateral support. not only in hip area, but also
in backrest.
• Offered in all available leather colors.
• Incorporates a thorax airbag integrated in the outer side of backrest.
• Apertures for six-point seat belts permit use of competition-type
seatbelts.
• Through use fiberglass and carbon-fiber, new sports seat weighs
in at 15-20 pounds (7-9 kg) less per seat than current Porsche
adaptive sports seat.
• Folding backrest allows rear seats of 911 models to be used normally.
• Expected to be available no earlier than late 2007, will not be
offered for 911 GT3/911 GT3 RS models.

911 TURBO AEROKIT (Option XAF)
• Swooping front spoiler lip with brake ducting channels.
• New rear deck and fixed rear spoiler.
• All components of 911 Turbo Aerokit are based on aerodynamic
testing conducted at Weissach.
• Refined by recent Porsche European Cup-series competition.
• When ordered, all components as well as side skirts and rear apron
finished in exterior color.
• Delayed availability option.

GreggT

Is that a complete list of all changes?

D.D.

Any Pics????????

Sunshine

Looks like I'll be talking to my dealer again soon.

500

Changes to service intervals are interesting. What is the current recommended replacement mileage for the spark plugs?

500

Didn't you just get your car?

JMAGOLAN

Current Spark plug change recommendation is 60K miles.

Jerry

GreggT

Exiting.
Now another 24K on spark plugs......I can see the commercial now.

24K is about when I change em

larrytrk

Looks like they have responded to our let's change the oil more often. The dealers must be happy as hell!!
I think our obsession with frequent servicing has caused Corporate to rethink it's position.
The dealer network has wanted 1 year intervals anyway, so why not sanction it!!
We are getting what we wanted!!!!!!!!!

mdrums

Spoke to my dealer and there service dept yesterday and they said they firmly believe that the next major upgrade to the Carrera will be Direct Injection for 2009 and then a clutchless high performance type of transmission for the 2010 model year.

These are 2 improvments that mean a lot to me so I will have to keep waiting till then.

nyca

no DSG until 2010? unbelievable, that's the one item stopping me from buying.

Sunshine

Yes in Feb, but by next summer I may be longing for new.

500

It appers we may suffer from a similar affliction...

500

Thank you for the info.
I wonder if Porsche is changing to a cheaper plug or using the same and just shortening the interval?

mdrums

that is the word among the dealers. Porsche wants to make sure the clutchless shifting transmission they use is down right reliable. the Ferrari/Maserati F! transmission works very very well BUT the thing needs serviced all the time and if you really use it you will need new clutch paks in under 10,000 miles. My P car dealer is also a Maserati dealer and they have F1 transmission problems all the time. I just got a 2006 in August of 2006 so I will be ordering the 2010 in 2009.