Yes, we pat ourselves on the back. Why wouldn't we? As branding guru Al Reis once advised me "Tell 'em who you are, tell 'em that you told 'em and tell 'em again." Or something like that. Anyway, back in April, we reported that Porsche was finally putting DSG into their venerable 911, plus the usual we-need-something-for- existing-owners-to-lust-after power bump. Classic Driver confirms that the refreshed Carerra wil be blessed with a seven-speed double-clutch gearbox. Porsche calls their system Porsche-Doppelkupplung or PDK, which they invented, dammit! ("Porsche points out that its engineers developed the principle for motorsport some 25 years ago.") The updated car also also gets direct injection, debuted (to not much effect) on the Cayenne GTS. "The 3.6-litre Carrera models are up 20bhp to 345bhp, while the 3.8-litre Carrera S has jumped 30bhp, and now develops an impressive 385bhp." AND they're cleaner, more economical and .2 seconds faster from zero to 62mph. One thing we didn't foresee: new LED lights fore and aft. Now, when this PDK thing hits the Boxster S, we'll see just how fast I can drive backwards– if you know what I mean.
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what do you mean?
Big question, is it only coming with the fancy autobox, or an honest to goodness manual cog changer still an option?
Jalopnik reports the 0-60 mph gains as 0.2 (cf. 0.02) which are in keeping with the hp gains, and that Porsche bothered to report it.
Sorry to correct you Farago, but I know how these things bother you.
paykan GT:
Doh! Thanks. Text amended.
Robert: Freud (and the “PPK” headline) tells me that you’re a closet firearm fanatic ;-)
shaker: Robert: Freud (and the “PPK” headline) tells me that you’re a closet firearm fanatic ;-) Nailed again! Headline amended from "PPK" to "PDK."
I understand the TT model will not benefit from either direct injection or PDK, at least until the new chassis is introduced in a few years.
Is that Ford corporate switch-gear in that image?
Sure looks it.
wasn’t porsche the first to develop dual clutch gear boxes back in the day for their group C cars. I remember reading something about the 962’s having them. I think they gave up because it was too heavy or unreliable, not sure though.
what do you mean?
I think it’s a reference to the fact that the Boxster looks exactly the same front and back…
On another note, I agree with the person who said the switchgear doesn’t look that good (the tiptronic never did either by the way, but that was irrelevant since it wasn’t a consideration for the driving enthousiast in the first place) and I’ve also noticed that there are no paddles behind the wheel, just two buttons on top of it.
Now where’s the fun in that? All the appeal of an ‘F1-style’ gearbox to me is that you can shift ‘F1-style’ (because the paddle shifting was first introduced in 1990 or 91 on the Ferrari F1 car), not by pushing some random button that might as well be for changing the radio station. Quite a shame because, since it’s a Porsche, the gearbox itself will no doubt be technical perfection.
Already reason enough for me to prefer the manuelle getriebe.
@ ethermal:
I believe there is still a true manual option on these upcoming models. You know.. for people who actually know how to drive a car. ;)