What a huge improvement !!!!! These things are great . I drove my car for the first time in awhile this evening . The paddles do wipe out any confusion , are large enough to find easilty and are very efficient. One person who test drive my car felt that it was close to the directional but I don't see that as an issue .
The exhaust sounded great. The paddles were awesome.
After all this Gt3 hoopla .. I'm keeping this car for awhile.

 

Awesome! I had a suspicion you'd fall back in love with it. Drive it this weekend and give us a full report.

 

Pics?

W/ ~700 miles on the car you should definitely keep it and get more seat time with it before moving onto a GT3. If it does everything you need, then save yourself the moolah.

 

+1, where are the pics?

 

where are the pics?

 

Great! Now spend some time on a nice twisty road with a lot of tight corners and a sequence of switchbacks and hairpins. Drive it spiritedely in M mode and please report back about the new paddle's performance, including missed shifts if any. Straightline, freeway reports need not apply.

 

+ 3 where are the pics?

 

It's dark and in my garage the lighting produced blurry pics . I am charging up the camera and will try and get some up soon . Overall it is real nice . I never felt that the buttons were an issue but this does feel more fluid . One paddle = 1 function simplifies the push pull of the buttons. i only drove a few miles so I can't really detail the experience . But on first impression .. I like it.

 

Larry,

I have been following your car saga and all i can say is I am happy you chose to keep the S. i love mine more and more everyday! I posted my day of driving over on the renn. It really can't much better with these cars!

Jen

 

I think the GT3 lust was just missing the PDK....

 

is the paddle attach to the steering wheel or the steering column ?

 

Wow, Larry, you are certainly one of the most unstable car guys I've seen

 

Please take a side picture to show how cloese the paddles are to the turn signal stalk...I have big hands and have been wondering about this.

 

It's dark and I am not much of a photographer. I stuck two of my fingers between these paddles with ease . I love the design .

 

They appear close but are not in the way . Several people drove the car and all agreed that this is the way it should have come from Porsche.