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View Poll Results: If you were to buy a newer Boxster S or 996 would you get it with 6spd manual or Tip
6 Speed Manual 42 79.25%
Tiptronic 11 20.75%
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Old 06-29-2010, 01:13 AM   #1
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Mine is a daily driver as well. It's a stick and if I had to do it again I'd go stick again. There are times when it's annoying in traffic to have to keep shifting up and down but for the rest of the time the stick is well worth it IMO.
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Old 06-29-2010, 04:05 AM   #2
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Manual tranny for me. I would not even consider a TIP, and I lived with my car in NYC for over 5 yrs. In the suburbs, I wouldn't even hesitate a second to choose the manual over the auto tranny. It's just more fun, and there's no power sapping torque converter.

Now if you were comparing a PDK to a manual, then it's a closer matchup, but still, I'd choose a manual because I like the feel of doing the shifts and clutch control myself.
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Old 06-29-2010, 04:10 AM   #3
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+1 for manual.
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Old 06-29-2010, 04:15 AM   #4
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Of course I knee jerked for the six speed, however, if I lived in a big city with stop and go traffic, I'd likely prefer tip but I'd buy pdk as tip is crap.
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Old 06-29-2010, 04:16 AM   #5
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Drove stick for 30+ years

Alfa, Alfa, Porsche 914 were manual.
First Boxster was TIP. Totaled. Second Boxster is TIP. Lived in suburbs when the second was bought. Now live in semi-rural. I enjoy it, don't feel the need to shift for myself but maybe 5% of the time...and 80% of that is to get the revs up for the health of the engine. Like the buttons.
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Old 06-29-2010, 05:39 AM   #6
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70% of me says manual
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