[gmtsteve]

Not had my Cayman long although it is my third Porsche and two features I love that are new to my 718.
Manual stick shifting of the PDK is the correct way around. Pull to shift up, push to shift down. It was always the other way previously.
Also, if driving in auto mode and you want a quick down shift to the best lower gear, just a quick prod of the throttle and the car auto downshifts immediately. So simple, so useful.

 

[DriveInHouston]

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Also, if driving in auto mode and you want a quick down shift to the best lower gear, just a quick prod of the throttle and the car auto downshifts immediately. So simple, so useful.

Let me add that downshifting this way is not subject to the 6 sec mandatory manual interval you get if you downshift with the paddles.

This has its pros and cons. If you downshift to floor it (for passing another car, or because you remembered you need some coffee) it is great, you punch briefly the pedal about an inch and you get one downshift, you punch it two inches and you get two or more gears down (you need some experience on how much to punch, NOT pedal to the metal). Then you can feed it gas as you see appropriate, and the PDK will do its job as it sees appropriate.

The con is when you downshift by punching 2 inches for braking. It is very counterintuitive and man, oh man, it can scare civilians, women and children. But, as I said in the beginning, it is not subject to the 6 sec manual hold. Where this 6 sec can surprise you (if not turn around and bite you) is if you downshift with the paddle and come to a stop, say at a light, before the 6 sec are up, it will stay in manual. When you start in 1st, it will be in manual and surprise you by not up shifting to 2nd, for a while.

 

[grasmere]

Manual stick shifting of the PDK is the correct way around. Pull to shift up, push to shift down. It was always the other way previously.

Only true for you, glad you like it that way round.
I, for example would push for ‘up’ and pull for ‘down’
Some military research I was involved in re gathering video data for guided missiles flights some years ago proved that individuals ‘naturally’ either pulled OR pushed to go up or down. We installed a A/B switch to suit the camera operators natural instincts and our ‘fails to follow’ dropped to zero!

 

[jimmuller]

FWIW, my salesperson explained that pulling for an upshift meant your hand was moving with its momentum. Or to put it another way, the car's acceleration orward was pulling your hand backwards, so pulling that way to upshift made shifting easier.

Whatever. I've started using paddles whenever I'm in manual mode anyway.

 

[johan]

A sequential gearbox gearbox works the same and a pdk has the same feel to it.
My wifes dsg works the otherway around so there i am always in auto mode