OT - Tesla Model 3

[RUSK97]

Miatas and Porsche Boxsters? I'm jealous. Am I the only one who has to haul people around? Two doors and seats plus half a trunk (or a shallow mini-front trunk in the Porsche's case) that can barely fit my toothbrush is a pipe dream for me.

 

[lawmatt78]

Either of the new 718 Boxsters promise to be great cars and definitely have the dynamics you're looking for. The only drawback is that if you're going to insist on being a purist and shifting for yourself you're going to miss out on the performance of the PDK. All of the German DSG transmissions are a value-add, as I've found with my own Audi.

Is the increased performance really substantial? I can live with .1 or .2 seconds more to 60 with a manual. But, iif the overall experience is enhanced w/ the dual clutch, that is intriguing.

W/ older automatics, I always found them non-intuitive and I braked far more than I would like. I imagine the newer dual clutch ones are a vast improvement, by and large. I just haven't tried many.

 

[RU4Real]

Is the increased performance really substantial? I can live with .1 or .2 seconds more to 60 with a manual. But, iif the overall experience is enhanced w/ the dual clutch, that is intriguing.

W/ older automatics, I always found them non-intuitive and I braked far more than I would like. I imagine the newer dual clutch ones are a vast improvement, by and large. I just haven't tried many.

I can pull on cars with better power to weight ratios just because my progression through the gears to 100 mph is, in total, about .5 to .75 seconds faster than anybody can achieve with a manual and easily that much quicker than a torque converter automatic. They really are that good.

I find that to the extent the transmission fails to anticipate my needs (as any automatic is wont to do, but this one less so), it tends to be conservative with downshifting. The easy fix, with this box anyway, is to drop it into Sport mode. That remaps both the TCU and the ECU and the whole setup becomes a lot more aggressive.

If you want, you can always do the flappy-paddle thing, as well. I don't do it that often because I generally spend a lot more time on regular roads as opposed to roads with a lot of twisty bits. Based on my limited experience, it works pretty well, though.