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Huh, Is the Porsche 7-speed Manual Really a Manual? db997S - 4 years ago |
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Guenter in Ontario
Thanks for sharing. Makes me appreciate my 981S's six speed manual and NA flat six engine even more.
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mikefocke, '01S Sanford, NC
Until you go to sell it and find that most buyers now want an Auto because they have never driven a stick.
I was stick only through my first 3 sport cars (Alfa, Alfa, 914) but around 1972 as traffic increased my 8 minute commute at 70 MPH morphed to 50 minutes of creeping, same route. I used the fun car for commuting, I found the auto easier on the psyche. I arrived home so much less stressed out. I can't imagine today given the stupendous increase in traffic even since then rowing through gears in the urban areas I used to frequent. Just try and find a stick shift in a rental car.
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I haven’t followed Boxster prices recently, but the 997 market currently values manual models over the auto/PDK variants. There are still a lot of people who can and want to drive a sports car with a manual. I don’t use my 911 as a commuter car. It’s for fun, and I find the manual way more fun. Also, I don’t give a dang what the car is worth when I sell it. I use the car up till I’m done with it. Did so with my Boxster too. I really didn’t care what I sold it for.Quote
mikefocke, '01S Sanford, NC
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Guenter in Ontario
Thanks for sharing. Makes me appreciate my 981S's six speed manual and NA flat six engine even more.
Until you go to sell it and find that most buyers now want an Auto because they have never driven a stick.
I was stick only through my first 3 sport cars (Alfa, Alfa, 914) but around 1972 as traffic increased my 8 minute commute at 70 MPH morphed to 50 minutes of creeping, same route. I used the fun car for commuting, I found the auto easier on the psyche. I arrived home so much less stressed out. I can't imagine today given the stupendous increase in traffic even since then rowing through gears in the urban areas I used to frequent. Just try and find a stick shift in a rental car.
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Very true that the manual versions of those older exotic cars will be worth more now because they are rare. When they no longer make the manuals for Porsches, I suspect it will be much the same. Hopefully, they don’t though, as I want to still be driving/buying them. I have never considered my Pcar as a daily driver, and agree that if it were, I’d get a PDK.Quote
JoeU ontheriver in VA
If you look at older Ferraris and Aston Martin and Audi R8 you will see all of them with the manual bringing more than
the auto, even if the auto is a single or dual clutch box. Time will tell if the Porsche will do same but I guess it will.
My 981 is a PDK, but I plan on hanging onto my C7 Z51 Corvette with 7 speed and Aston V8 Vantage with 6 speed.
You also have to differentiate a daily driver from the occasional driver car. If I had to drive in DC or LA or similar no way I want a manual for
daily use.