Fell in love... again.

Sigh. Is it really better to have love and lost, than never to have loved at all, or is that bullE36 M3?

My week with the 911 Turbo coupe.

"If all autos were like this one, the word “slush-box” would be forever stricken from the lexicon.

Still not convinced?

Try saying “Porsche Doppelkupplungsgetriebe” very slowly.

Even better, have someone, preferably a hot German, whisper it in your ear."

http://www.autos.ca/car-test-drives/test-drive-2014-porsche-911-turbo-coupe/

I'm sorry, but anything said in German, even by the sexiest human being on the planet, comes out as a gruff command. "Jawohl! You will now be loving me in a sufficient fashion to cause me pleasure. NOW!"

When I whispered it into my last customer's ear, she slapped me.

K said: "Try it."

A PDK isn't a slushbox though, it's a robotized manual gearbox. It doesn't have a torque converter (a big part of the slushiness).

So pdk is German for "slush-delete"...

When I drove the Cayman S featuring the PDK, I was still at 100% grin.

Streetwiseguy wrote: I'm sorry, but anything said in German, even by the sexiest human being on the planet, comes out as a gruff command. "Jawohl! You will now be urinating on me in a sufficient fashion to cause me pleasure. NOW!"

FTFY. germans are weird.

Anything Marlene Dietrich said was sexy

patgizz wrote:

Streetwiseguy wrote: I'm sorry, but anything said in German, even by the sexiest human being on the planet, comes out as a gruff command. "Jawohl! You will now be urinating on me in a sufficient fashion to cause me pleasure. NOW!"

FTFY. germans are weird.

Oi! I resemble that remark!

Streetwiseguy wrote: I'm sorry, but anything said in German, even by the sexiest human being on the planet, comes out as a gruff command. "Jawohl! You will now be loving me in a sufficient fashion to cause me pleasure. NOW!"

I actually learned how to say Porsche DoppelKupplungsgetriebe.

I just like to say it. It's a fun word.

Lesley wrote: "If all autos were like this one, the word “slush-box” would be forever stricken from the lexicon.

A "slush-box" is a torque converter, and PDKs don't have one. :)

You know what? I suppose someday, I will be assimilated. But until then, I don't give a crap about the 0.whatever reduction in 0-60 time, I don't care how much faster it is around the track, I don't care that it can upshift in 32 nanoseconds, I don't care how perfectly it cracks off rev-matched downshifts all day long, I JUST WANT THE PLEASURABLE SENSATION OF DRIVING A 3-PEDAL MANUAL ALL BY MY BERKING SELF .

Oh, yeah, off my lawn, whatever, grumble grumble.

Duke wrote: You know what? I suppose someday, I will be assimilated. But until then, I don't give a crap about the 0.whatever reduction in 0-60 time, I don't care how much faster it is around the track, I don't care that it can upshift in 32 nanoseconds, I don't care how perfectly it cracks off rev-matched downshifts all day long, I JUST WANT THE PLEASURABLE SENSATION OF DRIVING A 3-PEDAL MANUAL ALL BY MY BERKING SELF . Oh, yeah, off my lawn, whatever, grumble grumble.

I still have three pedals in my car

Streetwiseguy wrote: I'm sorry, but anything said in German, even by the sexiest human being on the planet, comes out as a gruff command. "Jawohl! You will now be loving me in a sufficient fashion to cause me pleasure. NOW!"

LMFAO

When people dis the PDK, they are focusing on the wrong foot. Instead of thinking about not having a clutch pedal to push with your left foot, you should be thinking about never having to lift off the gas with your right.

My first three Porsches had clutch pedals, my next one will have a PDK.

Woody wrote: When people dis the PDK, they are focusing on the wrong foot. Instead of thinking about not having a clutch pedal to push with your left foot, you should be thinking about never having to lift off the gas with your right.

I get it. I just don't want it.

So Lesley since I think you have driven both. 911 Turbo or R8 V10

Duke wrote:

Woody wrote: When people dis the PDK, they are focusing on the wrong foot. Instead of thinking about not having a clutch pedal to push with your left foot, you should be thinking about never having to lift off the gas with your right.

I get it. I just don't *want* it.

I didn't want one either, until I drove one.

Sometimes i wonder if the same people Poo-pooing the PDK are the same people that would turn their nose up at a dogbox. Or a rally-type sequential box.

In reply to Swank Force One:

In my case, yes.

In a race car, fine, no problem, whatever is the fastest thing from start to finish is what you should be driving.

In a car I'm driving for pleasure, every (nice) day, purely for the wonderful sensation of driving... not so much.

Lesley wrote: Try saying “Porsche Doppelkupplungsgetriebe” very slowly. Even better, have someone, preferably a hot German, whisper it in your ear."

I am sitting here saying that out loud and then saw what you wrote after and had to stifle a laugh. I would imagine our preferred Germans are different but that is A-OK!