When I pull towards me, it shifts down, and when I push it away from me, it shifts up, as I would expect it to...

How is that wrong? Seems perfectly natural to me..

 

me too, but evidently the "normal" way is reverse.

 

It should work same as sequential gearbox.
If this would be "perfectly natural" you think porsche would change it finally? ??
I was waiting for this change 5 years...

 

I guess it's about what you are used to. But in a track/motorsport situation it's easier to pull back under acceleration and push forward under braking as momentum will help you shift.

 

There are many variations of a sequential gearbox...

My bikes are all 1 down - then one up for neutral, and then 5 up. And the only reason for 1 down is so that you don't accidentally go there while downshifting and get tossed off the bike altogether...LOL

Which sequential gearbox are you referring to? I find it quite natural that pushing forward goes to higher gears and pulling backwards goes to lower gears, exactly the way center-console based auto transmission gear levers have worked for decades.

Manual gearboxes use H patterns, so I find no similarities there...

I suppose one can make an argument for the reverse, but this is the way auto transmission levers have worked forever...just sayin'...

 

Sequentials are running in porsche..

 

Exactly.

 

Some of you might be disappointed..... after few years porsche did a good thing.

 

The steering wheel and the bigger PCM screen are nice upgrades from the 991.1.