991.2 GT3 reviews out

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Looks like the journo's have got their hands on the new GT3...... pity they both have the slush-matic gearbox - i'm joking guys, don't kill me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQHaA8ttkE0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uZXuHEXYpc

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robgt3 said:

Slush!!! I think not.

I'm only joking Rob

[v8ksn]

https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-review/porsche/gt3/f...

Dial up Sport mode and the gearbox software will blip the throttle to provide perfectly rev-matched downshifts. Paradoxically, it is arguably more involving in Comfort mode, where you’re left to your own devices. The relatively wide spacing of the ratios requires you to be quite explicit on each blip, but get your heel-and-toe action right and you'll be richly rewarded.

So, it looks like you have to stay in comfort mode in order to rev match yourself...OR select sport mode and the software auto blips between changes.

Is the GT4 the same?

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Porsche911R said:

It's a great system and very handy, who wants to heal and toe in jams etc people do make heal and toe out to be the hardest and trick thing to do lol , I find it adds nothing to my enjoyment of the car as once you can do it without thinking you can do it, end of, I only tend to do it to show off, other wise I have sport mode on in the GT4, as I stated I'll do it for the 1st 30 mins inside the car and then press sport

This post massively confuses me!

Heel and toe in traffic jams ?
Only tend to do it to show off ?

What the bloody hell are you on about?

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franki68 said:

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How does it 'take everything that is great about the auto ' ? .If you listed the pdk strengths over a manual you would say the gearchange is more or less instant and you do not have to take your hands off the wheel .The manual cannot do this,likewise if they said the pdk takes everything that is great about the manual ....it can't.

I think what they were trying to say is the main benefits of the PDK over the manual is the instantaneous UPSHIFTS and the ability to select a lower gear WHENEVER you like (I.e during braking, trailing, midway through a corner, etc)

The manual is obviously going to be slower on the upshifts as you are manually changing gears but on downshifts there is not as much compromise as expected due to the auto throttle-blip functionality so you can now brake as late and deep as you like and still change down to whatever gear you like safe in the knowledge that the software will revmatch correctly.

Thus - best of both worlds (from a manual lovers perspective)