ah, why not...another post at the least

definitely get the stick

 

if you get the triptronic you have to go to triptroniconline.com

Get the 6speed. pickup a used toyota for bad weather car.

 

get the stick, rent a car to learn to drive a stick on first, it will probably save you $$$ in the short term. Friend's son learned a stick on a P-car, cost him over $2K (or something like that) to fix.

 

simple: get the stick, move out of Ca. In Ohio, we have long twisty roads with no lights or traffic

 

Aside from a Honda Civic I had on lease once (say what you want about Honda, they make a slick gearbox), the 997 is about the easiest manual I've driven.

 

Porsche's are built for manual trans....just do it!

 

Buy a beater manual to drive until you pick up your 997. (A real beater, not the 30K beaters some of these guys have) That will give you the practice required to step into a new porsche with a manual transmission.

I know when I bought my wife her wrx, the transmission was so new and tight and I was so inexperienced with a stick that I drove her tercel for a month or two before I felt comfortable driving the wrx. I imagine a porsche will be even more so.

 

My 997 was smooth as butter from day 1.

 

Driving in traffic w/stick is more fun that driving in traffic with auto.

 

Thanks for all the feedback. Looks like stick is the way to go for sure.

 

1. get the manual gearbox
2. get the manual gearbox

3. get the manual gearbox



P.S. get the manual gearbox

 

+1 . . . . . . . . . .

 

Funny how all Americans are very anti-triptronic.

It's not that I agree/disagree with any of the statements, but I think people in US people have more of an 'alergy' to automates as they are so dominant by the normal 'boring' drivers. And you dont HAVE to learn manual when you do your licence. (There are no automatic cars for driving lessons in europe from what I have experienced.)
Basically I think that people here in europe are more relaxed about it.

My 2 cents on the topic however: There are advantages and drawbacks on both options. I love them both, and if I could i would own two 911s with each option.

Had manaul on all my previous cars. And I had to do a similar choice for the E46 M3 (manual or SMG) . I didnt like the SMG very much, it's sporty but jerky . So i went for another manual.

For the 911 i went with Triptronic S, and I dont regret that.

Put it simply, it's the best automat (with manual 'emulation') box i have ever had the pleasure to drive. It's a best mixture of both world that I have found, BUT obviously you are doing some compromising.

If you dont care about comfort at all, then of course choice is easy, go manual.

 

By the Stick and get an Audi A3 with DSG for the high traffic duties. It works for me.

 

I've read so many good things about the tiptronic and read an article where a professional race car driver preferred the tiptronic in the 997 Turbo over the manual. When I test drove the turbo, they only had a tiptronic and I was not impressed at all. I left it in auto mode and it didn't seem to be in the right gear when I wanted it to. I'm not impressed with Audi's DSG and don't think I'd like PDK when it comes out either. To me, a sports car should have a traditional manual transmission...but, no flames to the tip lovers out there. That's just my opinion.