Porsche fixes the 911 - finally!

I don't know for a fact that Porsche engineers gather in their local Stuttgart Starbucks (I don't think there is one in Zuffenhausen...) on Sunday morning, grab their lattes, fire up their laptops and read the Wheels section on-line.

I mean, there is a chance, right? A chance they don't?

But for sure, I finally am experiencing a fix they made to the 911 which I have been whining about for years.

Maybe I haven't been alone?

Again, anything's possible...

In the 911 Turbo Cabriolet I'm driving as I type (well, not AS I type; it's in my driveway...) the shift controls for the PDK (Porsche Doppelkublungsgetriebe; where's Jamie Lee Curtis when I need her?...) are proper paddles behind the steering wheel, instead of those dumb little steering wheel spoke thumb buttons they used to have.

THAT'S the way you do it.

This may have been an option on 911s for a while, but it's the first one I've actually driven.

So danke schoen, meines Freundes. Make mine a venti extra-hot one-percent, bitte zehr.

Now if we can just convince BMW to make the same fix on the Z4.

Comments

[Jerry]

For a moment I thought they moved the engine in front of the rear axle. I might even consider buying a Porsche if they put the RS3 motor in a Cayman.

[Jim Kenzie]

Hi Jerry:

Porsche would never do that, because the better-balanced Cayman would be faster than the iconic 911 equivalent.

But from what I gather, the German 'tuners' can pretty much screw whichever cylinder bores you want into the 'Boxer' flat-six crankcase.

So if you have enough time and money, you could have your dream car!

Jim Kenzie