How gay are the 996 tiptronics?

[clutch-monkey]

So you've got some sort of crippling ailment in your left side?

there is a guy in the porsche club with a black 996 turbo, had to get tiptronic because of some health reason. i don't know how it 'feels' to drive, but i can tell you he ain't slow!

[Babalouie]

I think in the turbo form, the tiptronic is quicker than the manual around the nordschliefe or something

[TJ]

I've driven an automatic Mazda6 with the +/- shifter ... same thing, didn't excite, wouldn't pay Porsche money for a Mazda6. Same as a new automatic Skoda, really.

Are you seriously comparing a 996 to a mazda 6?

[TonyJZX]

or a DSG VAG car...

this is Forg you must remember

the modern PDK ones seem to be fine but none of that seems particularly right to me

[Evaku8]

Can't comment on the Porsche tiptronic specifically, but having had a DSG Stage 2 GTI, I found it boring and uninvolving, which would be precisely the reasons not to have one on a 911.

I'm more about the overall driving experience than it being a bees dick faster 0 - 100.

[Sketchy]

Can't comment on the Porsche tiptronic specifically, but having had a DSG Stage 2 GTI, I found it boring and uninvolving, which would be precisely the reasons not to have one on a 911.

I'm more about the overall driving experience than it being a bees dick faster 0 - 100.

This.

Givafuk if the thing is a few tenths faster as a triptronic unless you are the sort of cockfondler that loves to sprout numbers down at the pub to bignote yourself.

Driving experience > outright speed EVERY FUCKING TIME.

[Shifty]

i don't even really like dsg on golfs etc.

it's grown on me a little, so instead of absolutely fucking detesting it as i did initially, i can put up with it if i need to

but it is a long long long way from being good.

[Peter...]

need a whole replacment transaxle?

dump old auto transaxle on someones drive?

That sounds like the sort of revenge attack Q might consider...

[TonyJZX]

thats true but think how much a complete manual gearbox for a porsche costs

G50s are quite expensive and i believe these predate the 993?

[WRXCunt]

How many of you guys hating on them have driven them?

I have, there's nothing wrong with the tiptronic, but the manual version is nicer to drive.

[Uncle]

What the cunt said.

[TonyJZX]

i've never driven an auto mx5 either but i can't imagine a universe where it's any where near good at all... ergo...

[Babalouie]

thats true but think how much a complete manual gearbox for a porsche costs

G50s are quite expensive and i believe these predate the 993?

The 6spd in the 993 is a version of the earlier G50 5spd. Dunno if they're a bolt-in proposition tho.

[Cal]

What the cunt said.

I think you just gave the game away. So a white 964 hey?

[itsnotagsr]

Is there a sequential kit available ala 997 GT3 Cup? That would be ok for an auto.