http://jalopnik.com/395230/2009-pors...elift-revealed

 

Technically amazing but they've missed the mark with the tail ights and the shifting mechanisms... while Porsche sequential shift race cars (and all? others) use forward to downshift and backward for upshift, Porsche has done the new trans the opposite way. This baffles the mind. Furthermore the "paddles" on the steering wheel are not. They are PUSH buttons... we all know how much more finesse and accuracy your muscles have "pullling" instead of pushing....

 

agreed with all you said.
those tail lights are too bat mobile/ fast and furious for me, i wonder if theres an option on the list to have regular lights instead of LEDs, wouldnt that be great.

ref the sequential, thats very counter intuitive if thats the case regarding direction for gear change. given their track cars dont do it this way i see no reason why the road cars would, what about all that pedigree through racing mantra.
as for buttons on the wheel. no no no no......no
if you dont want to make paddles fair enough, just make a very nice gear lever resembling a manual and have that give sole control. steering wheel buttons are dumb and outdated and will offset any advances made with their auto boxes by keeping the interface like that of a game controler and drive interaction at zero.

 

probably designed the steering wheel like this for safety... if they had shift paddles a la f430 that makes you have less grip on the steering wheel... pushbuttons would work just fine... you have more grip and can use your thumbs to upshift/downshift... just because they have done something different doesn't mean it wont work well...

I disagree it would be counter intuitive .. its a more a training/getting use to issue...

but in the end I would have to drive one and see how it felt after an hour...

does anybody know with PDK if you can change gears from the lever itself on the console?

 

actually, if your at a place where your hands CANT stay at a perfect 3 and 9 position on the wheel (say a 30 mph hairpin), having to push something thats now twisted up seems much harder than just being able to pull a paddle. Thats just me though...I love my SMG in the m5...

 

well.. I guess we won't know for sure until we try it.. even in a hair pin, with a 3-9 hand position... your finger should be able to pull up the lever.... I'm gonna try one hopefully soon and give a write up on what I find... I can't imagine Porsche screwing up something so important... but who knows!?

 

I mean, I dont think it will kill the car, but there is a reason why racecars either use a standard manual, paddles (ok, REAR, single command pushbuttons on say an f1 car) or a sequential. If these buttons are single command, then it wont be bad, but I know I wouldnt want to search for the top or bottom of the button if things get a bit hairy...know what I mean?

 

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impressive.when and how much?...I wish the factory would shorten the wheel base and add sports exhaust..