Manual transmission revision

[mwoolley]

I'm planning the purchase of a manual C2 991. My research of reviews and test drives often turns up negative comments concerning the 7 speed transmission in early examples of the 991. More recent reviews suggest that the manual transmission has since been revised and is now significantly improved. Does anyone know when those revisions happened i.e. how to identify vehicles with a revised manual transmission (apart from driving them of course!). Has the revision been applied to all 991 models?

 

[Terry]

I do not know the answer to your question about when the manual transmission was revised but my advice would be to go and drive some cars and see what you think. I have a 2013 manual car and find the gear-change perfectly acceptable. I drove a manual 991 GTS at the PEC recently and did not find the gear-change materially different to my own car.
Getting out off and, to a lesser extent, into 7th gear is not the easiest change but think of it as a six speed box with an overdrive seventh for cruising and it is fine.

 

[AB2012]

I have a December 2013 4S with manual gearbox and as Terry says treat it like a 6 speed with overdrive 7th for motorway trips etc. There is a distinct 'gateway' between 5/6th and 7th, so when you drop out of 7th you let the gear lever revert to th neutral position, then move back right until you feel the gateway and move up or down depending on whether you want 5th or 6th. Just like going for 1st/2nd and avoiding reverse to the left. Have just returned from a trip winding through the hairpins of the Vosges Mountains and Black Forest, and legging it along autoroutes and Autobahns, and found the gearbox very entertaining, especially in Sport Plus where it holds revs on up-shifts, blips the throttle on downshifts, and pops and warbles when you lift off. Drove a manual 2015 GTS recently which felt exactly the same. Go for it.