Manual or Tiptronic

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I am currently tiptronic, (the car, not personally, well not the last time I looked but then thats another story), I must say that I do sometimes miss the fact of actually driving the car as a sports car using the gears through the bends etc, even though I switch to manual and have some fun, for my next porsche I do not know if I should stay with the comfort of long range cruising in the tip or go for the drive of the manual?

Anybody has any veiws for and against....

 

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Absolutely tiptronic every time!
I have driven a Turbo with tip and will have tip on my Turbo Cab (currently on order)

When I first got my current car I had much the same view as you - but then had the Porsche Driving Experience one-day one-on-one course. Never looked back after that; now never drive in auto and use the gears through the bends all the time.
And for pure performance, I am convinced that tip is faster than manual - simply because every up change when accelerating hard is at the optimum point in the rev range.

I have heard lots of people dismiss tiptronic but never yet heard that from someone who has experience of it...

 

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Definately a personal choice issue -

I drove a Tip Turbo last year - decided that was the ONLY way to go -

T H E N

Drove a Tip / Manual X50 back-to-back - the manual is on the drive!

Loved the Tip which would have been superb for 80% of the time (IMO) but the manual just worked for me in terms of the drive feeling.

Manual gets my vote - except when stuck in traffic in West London!

 

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Manual for me at the moment.

I am not against the tiptronic in principle and I am convinced it is the future, however, at it' s current state of evolution I am not yet convinced.
When Porsche have the dual clutch DSG thing, which gives a quicker change and more direct drive without the slurred shifts, and they give the tiptronic the same number of gears as the manual, then I will consider it more closely.
It also weighs more, which is a consideration against it, but I' m sure it will be optimised down as it becomes more commonplace.

Of course the main advantage is that it can change down properly so no-one knows you can' t heel and toe.
But the downside is that it is more complicated and there are more opportunities for things to go wrong. I prefer to keep things simple unless there is good reason to change.

Aston, Ferrari and Lamborghini also see it as the future and want to do away with three pedals altogether.
Interestingly the UK is the worst market for take-up of tiptronic style shifts. Seems we are collectively set in our ways or not yet convinced.