I know that Porsche completely ignores F1 but I feel that that the new PDK is a cutting its nose off to spite its face.

Granted there are more important things to worry with but why not real paddles in lieu of the front mounted switches?

Is there science to this madness?

 

Why the key on the left of the steering column? Why the motor behind the rear axle? It is their own thing, it has character.

I wish they would have not caved in to marketing left the stick where it is.

 

Key is on the left because of LeMans heritage. Motor is out back because the trunk is in the front;-)

Stupid switches in place of proper paddles is just Porsche being contrarian.

 

In all fairness to Porsche, most everyone I know with a dual-clutch transmission leaves it in "D" and just steers. Even when I drive my wife's A3 DSG on occasion, I rarely end up using the paddles since the transmission is very responsive in auto mode. That said, I do prefer paddles to those rocker switches - it's like putting the clutch pedal in the middle to be different....

 

I agree that the "flippers" are not as intuitive as paddles, on top of which the wheel is butt ugly. It's like looking at the imprint of Shrek's a** on a glass table top.

Hopefully Porsche will realize it can make money out of its mistake and offer an optional wheel with real paddle shifters.

 

There was recently a thread on an RT12 Tiptronic that Ruf had made a paddle shifter for (+ on right, - on left). My guess is that they could easily adapt the wiring to the PDK wiring.

 

Yeah Coochas. Best news I have heard this morning.

 

You do push and pull the paddles on the new PDK...they just do not look like the paddles you see in a Ferrari. No big issue. Also you can shift the PDK with the stick just like the GT3RSR race cars.

 

mdrums, the stick works "backwards" from the race cars.

 

The AMG Benzes have that. Upshift on one side and downshift on the other, and attached to the wheel. Gets very f'd up when you want to shift with the wheel turned a lot.

 

The paddle system is similar to the one in the 335i auto

 

So it would be best used at Laguna Seca?

 

+1 My SAAB has the same setup. I hardly ever use it.

 

IMO the paddles shouldn't be ON the steering wheel, or ATTACHED to the steering wheel.
They should be on the steering column, not moving with the steering wheel.

 

that is ow Lambo does it. They said it help to prevent people from shifting in corners.