Are Spyders Becoming Extinct At OPCs!
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A possible convert in the making maybe [ORIGINAL: Big EVery closely matched by the Evora driver was the one looking in the classifieds Monday!ORIGINAL: daro911 Were you able to conclude which of these 2 great pieces of kit overall wins the day[]
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Interesting older video, Mr Plato didn't like the PDK. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTgXky5ntEo OT: I must say I do prefer the rear diffuser on the Spyder
Think that video says more about Plato than PDK. Buttons aren't *that* hard to use!
I think his gripe was that on most "Motorsport" cars with sequential boxes the shift action is the opposite way [
]With used cars, what are the chances all 2 cars being equal. Not talking virtually new pre-registered cars but with those I can see where you'd apply your logic there if there were two identical pre-registered cars both with next to no mileage. But what are the chances of being presented with identical cars (unless your desired spec is fairly open)? Assuming 2 cars aren't 100% identical i'd be more interested in differentiating spec.
But you refer to new cars in your example. So maybe we are not all talking about the same things. OK, if you were looking at a number of, to you, identical, new cars I can see where you applied your tie-breaker of build date. For used cars, in the true sense of the word (a car with more than delivery mileage etc), mileage, condition and spec I think is what everyone else is saying are more typical factors. If 2 used cars were on sale for the same price but once was in worse condition e.g. scuffed leather or stone chips, i'd pick the one in better condition even if it was a few months older. If 2 used cars were on sale for the same price, both had an acceptable spec to me but one had higher mileage, i'd choose the one with lower mileage, not the one that had a later build date and had been sitting for a shorter time before sale but been used more since sale. If 2 used cars were identical spec and 3 years old but one was 3 months newer i'd buy the one at the best price if there's only months in it. If 2 used cars were months apart in age i'd buy the car with the better condition, mileage and spec which may drive a higher price on a slightly older car.
Again, as you refer to new cars in your example, maybe we are not all talking about the same things anyway. But nevertheless, everyone else is saying that used cars, based on the criteria they use to differentiate, would unlikely present 2 cars as identical such that build date would unlikely be needed as a tie-breaker.
this, I did the Silvertstone day with the early PDK cars and banged the limiter many many times on the day 3rd to 2nd and not 4th many time :-/ the Buttons are very wrong for a motor sport driver. and you cannot ajust to it if that's how you are used to driving, I hated it. In full auto it's just not as fast as it does not know what's coming up. How people can say it's fun is alien to me.ORIGINAL: Andy FaganI think his gripe was that on most "Motorsport" cars with sequential boxes the shift action is the opposite way [
I am still amazed how many 981/991 pdk demo cars don't have the sports steering wheel/paddle option Porsche must be the only sports car manufacturer in the world today who still considers buttons should be the standard kit with a pdk box and paddles an option[&:][][]
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Good points but every other manufacturer out there today with paddles seems to have found a way of offering both buttons to play with the toys on the wheel and paddles too[
] I have had DAB radios on my Mini's since 2007! but if you read Porsche blurb you would think this is some exotic brand new invention just being offered to market place with Porsche leading the way Marketing men are missing a trick imagine how much it would cost the Porsche buyer for a multifunction steering wheel with paddle shifters [][] 
I don't really care which one is quicker. It was hardly scientific was it? Plato in a manual with an ex world rally champ of 10 years in the PDK. Plato still races!!!! , put the two of them in the same cars on a rally cross circuit and try again. It was a bit of fun for TV, hardly worthy of comment. Plato would probably have been quicker everywhere in the PDK if they'd done the comparison.
Sounds like time for a group hug [][][]
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