Steering wheel heating would be nice but unfortunately is not available with the SportDesign steering wheel

 

No no no.. That's a feature I like.. It keeps the valets from joy riding

Lol, yeah I got bit by that earlier this week. Uh sir how do you start it..? Then when I get the car I find the Frunk is popped because the attendant was pushing everything on the key that he could find to try and start the car..

I actually do think that someday keyless ignition systems will make sense. But I think they will make more sense when you don't really have to have the key and it really is keyless.. There will always need to be a button of sorts to start..

But maybe just an RFID tag in your wallet that sticks onto my drivers license, something I always have with me.. Or maybe I can associate with a credit card similar to the safes in some hotel rooms (reader built into PCM). provides a backup way if you lose your key..

 

I am a fan of the light design package. I'm sure you can get it separately if you really want. Nice LED touch at night. With aluminum pedals it will make it nicer.


Colored gauge faces? All black?
Deviated stitching?
Ducktail spoiler?

 

Boy do I feel stupid... I assumed the keyless and go was a button like most other cars.....

 

That's not so stoopid!

When I picked-up my '14 C4S, I was completely confused when I got in the car, and couldn't find the "button" to start the engine! I bought a car off the lot, so it wasn't custom order and i probably wouldn't have selected keyless-go on this car. I do have the feature in other cars I own so knowing that my new baby had keyless entry and go I figured I would be ok with this. But I have never seen one set-up so wacky like this. First, the key is on the danged left side of the wheel -- awkward to begin with! I get in to the new 991, and where the key fits-in there is no button or anything.... In my Mercedes, Jeep, BMW, etc. it was always a big 'ol button that says START.

So I fumble around a bit, then go back in the showroom embarrassed to say I couldn't figure out how to start without the key... Well, sure enough, the "blank" key that gets inserted into the key-slot by the dealer upon deliver in this 991 was lost at the dealership when it was being prepped. Heck, they weren't even certain it had the option until I showed them the options list!

I asked why this was a "key" at all that had to be turned in the dash and not a simple button, and I was told that "Porsche design wanted it that way to preserve some of the history of the 911 -- the experience of starting the engine..." Uh, yeah ok.... whatever.

 

That is correct. In the "old days" some races started with the racers running and jumping into the car. The theory was that you could turn the key more quickly on the left of the column as you were jumping into your seat. Ok. That would explain the left - quirky, but that is their story and they are sticking to it. But, in that vain, a button on the left would be even faster! And make some sense. So there will be none of that!

 

Remote start would be even faster!!

 

Why would you get this ?
I ask this because I have the KW noselift in my 997 Turbo . It was just installed about 2 months ago after my Bilstein Damptronics collapsed at about 5 MPH . I love the noselift but it cost me with tax and installation over 11K . I can see the need to upgrade a suspension on a 997 car (especially the 997.1 turbo) but the 991 and current Boxster/Cayman cars come with the best stock suspension options i have ever seen in a Porsche (at an affordable price too) .

One more point .. the car has some of the highest priced peformance options but omits the X-51 ?

It's a nice car but with these types of options I might consider :
1) waiting for the Gts
or
2) see if 991.2 Gt3 comes with a manual available
or
3) order the X51 and opt for the stock Porsche choices like PASM and PDCC

 

I am leaning toward waiting for the GTS, though I can only hope that it will be offered with a manual.

I have no way of knowing at this point whether they will offer it, but I am not holding my breath for Porsche to offer the GT3 with a manual.

 

^^^ yrralis1 thank you also for the noselift kit tip, if it may not be so useful and also costs 11K then I think I will skip it.