Roadfly.com - 2009 Porsche Carrera PDK Transmission

[Dimitri0809]

Great invention!

[fatqwert200]

so is there a price for this trany by itself. get it in my vw bug haha

[justmystyle321]

ok maybe soon ill switch to porsche 

[firebolt120]

with the porsche pdk, can you drive in a pure automatic mode? no need to change gears? it does it for you?

[dEfENdEr998]

copycats ...

porcshe copied the smg from bmw

[amerblowsuup]

@dEfENdEr998 no they didint they copied it from ferrari

[dEfENdEr998]

@amerblowsuup i believe that bmw are the first to make the SMG or DK..

[sl33tz0r]

@dEfENdEr998 i believe it was VW actually

[ShinobiBoiX]

brilliant

but expensive :x

[maxauthority]

Does that also change gears automatically or does at least porsche's PDK let the driver in control (either by driving in the "red zone" or even in the 5th gear with 20kmh when wanted)?

[GT3LM]

Yup, it lets the driver stay in complete control, however will make an automatic downshift when the engine goes below idling speed, or an automatic upshift if you suddenly downshift past the rev governor, even in manual mode,

[maxauthority]

That's not complete control IMHO :) But well, at least it doesn't interfer with normal driving as so many bad "manual" modes for automatics which upshift when getting to redline.

[GT3LM]

It doesn't automatically upshift when you hit the redline, it'll let you bounce off of it as much as you like!

It only upshifts automatically when you downshift making the engine spin past it's redline. (EG - Shifting into Gear 3 at 120mph).

[IIIIKONIIII]

...You have the choice...you can Change it manual with tip tronic and drive it in the red zone or just leave it to the comp...

[alos31]

awesome

[fcabido]

it still has a stick! just bang it up or down like an smg.

[skbuoy]

True. PDK system is very good. However, for us Porsche fanactics, just thinking about a Porsche without manual is just crazy! It'll take some time to get use to.

[biffnacid]

i do understand what your saying but this does seem like a good transmission from what ive read, idk how it will catch on though most porsche's i see are manual

[emanko111]

@skbuoy it takes to live in a big city for 1-2 years (and the traffic) to pray for an automatic. I always had manual cars, my next and any next will be automatic :-) Comfort vs boy joy

[sl33tz0r]

@emanko111 yeah, you can be a driver with 30 years of manual gearbox driving, and one month of a good automatic makes you not want to go back. not just any auto will do though

[PyQua2]

Faster than Manual (0.2 secs) and can be driven as either, how can ya beat that?

Don't get me wrong, love stick, but I'm all about speed overall, and this definitly is faster

[green95gt]

Not for nothin' but I get 17 city and 26 highway on my mustang with a stock 5.0L, 145+ miles, manual, and a 3.55 final drive. The highway mileage is with cruising at 70-75mph. On a fresh engine makin' 350bhp I'd get more fuel economy. It's all about how you drive.

[wideopen704]

I hope this gearbox doesn't catch on, you only need 6 gears and a footclutch in a porsche to really drive the car.

[biffnacid]

is this transmission made by porsche or is it made by getrag?

[mahamza86]

Porsche invented it to be used in motorsports and volkswagon used it for the first time in their road cars, i think it was VW golf with so called DSG gearbox and as audi is the child company of VW it copied it. but porsche allowed VW to use it before them because Porsche owned the VW! Twisty aint it

[chriscap2]

porche should put the engine in front of the car.

[billyyays]

no its not a cvt look up cvt on youtube but i think the evo already has a twin clutch operation...

[bg1379]

Tons of cars do especially European spec cars such as Audi.

[mhd86]

isn't this type of transmission is just as same as the japanese CVT trannies ?