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Originally Posted by strohw
I'm curious how many people here who say they want a manual actually track their cars.
I picked up a manual Cayman this year as a toy car. Had to be manual since it was a toy. Took it to the track 4 times this year and realized by the 3rd time I should have gotten the PDK. When I'm trying to push and do better, the need to rev match just adds another layer I don't need. I also don't like the idea of money shifting while coming on the straight. The manual engagement feel in the car isn't the best and I missed shifted once during my first outing already. Now I have to monitor myself and take the 3rd to 4th a bit easy because a mistake is $10-15k.
Finally, I've noticed that a lot of newer performance cars with manual options do auto rev matching. So are you even a true manual anymore? It's like motorcycles nowadays too. Years ago I use to have to rev match on the track. Now you get slipper clutches and quick shifters as stock. You can literally just bang up and down through the gears.
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Been doing autoX and there's two nearly identical Cayman Ss, one manual, one PDK. The PDK is consistently about 3 seconds faster. Yes, drivers are important...but the PDK can simply shift instantly and that matters.