Re: Think this is ridiculous ...

... I'm really disappointed in them lately!
Here's my latest Article:

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Happy Faking it,
Pedro

Pedro Bonilla
1998 Boxster 986 - 317,000+ miles: [garage.pca.org]
[www.PedrosGarage.com]
PCA National Club Racing Scrutineer - PCA National HPDE Instructor - PCA Technical Committee (Boxster/Cayman)

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Racecar spelled backwards is Racecar

"Racing is life. Anything before or after is just waiting" ... Steve McQueen as Michael Delaney in "LeMans"

"If you wait, all that happens is that you get older"... Mario Andretti

"Being second is to be the first of the ones who lose" ... Ayrton Senna

Porsche isn’t the only one; Mercedes AMG, BMW, Lexus have fake sound and Mercedes put in fake exhaust tips too.
Basically too many gimmicks on all cars manufactured. I think they are running out of stuff to put in.
I wonder if the Ferrari Luce has fake sound and tachometer.

Pedro, I think you should submit your comments to Porsche Panorama Magazine. Great conversation starter, to say the least!

JB/SE SoDak
1997 986 - Wolfi
2024 718 Cayman GTS 4.0 - Horst Robert
Yankton, SD

"Wisdom is the most perfect knowledge of the most important truths in the right order of emphasis, accompanied by a total, permanent disposition to live accordingly.

-- Br. Francis Maluf, M.I.C.M.

"(School is to be a factory) in which raw products, children, are to be shaped and formed into finished products . . .(m)anufactured like nails, and the specifications for manufacturing will come from government and industry."

-- Elwood P. Cubberley, Dean of School of Education, Stanford University, 1905

"The creatures that want to live a life of their own, we call wild. If wild, then no matter how harmless, we treat them as outlaws, and those of us who are 'specially well brought up shoot them for fun."

-- Clarence Day, This Simian World

you’re old! ok, maybe i am too.

It IS ridiculous, but so many wannabes might want to think they can rev and shift -- and especially in a Porsche. Even if they can not drive anything but an electric one.

This seems to me to be something of an "image relic", by which I mean that the Porsche image of manual transmission and high performance (revs) seems to be an enticement for newbies to feel good, and to feel part of the heritage.

Fake it till you make it!

Yet another indication that Porsche has lost its way!

"It's like installing a heartbeat monitor on a marble statue."

I remember when the worst thing about a Porsche's instrumentation was its overly optimistic speedometer.

Ich weiss jetzt,
was kein Engel weiss.

I've driven CVT cars that pretend to use fixed shift gearing. It is not only unnecessary, it diminishes one of the main benefits of a CVT.

Good write-up, Pedro.

It is sad that car manufacturers have to add all this fake stuff. And even more so with Porsche, which in the past had stressed their goal of delivering a pure driving experience. I'm sure that when Ferdinand Porsche said, "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself", this fake stuff isn't what he had in mind.

Who knows. Maybe the next nostalgic Taycan option will be a PHBB (Porsche Hay Bale Box) to feed the "horses".