On Getting used to Tiptronic - 986 Forum - The Community for Porsche Boxster & Cayman Owners

Brucelee · 06-09-2005, 06:30 AM

I drive both all the time. I like them both for different reasons.

In my experience, most drivers (men especially) think they are better at manual shifting than they really are. I have guys who come and test drive my Porsches who are HORRIBLE with a stick.

It is those guys who think they are the best drivers around.

It is sad really.

Anyway, it is THOSE guys who really should buy a TIP and forget that they are racers. Man, if you can't work a stick by this time (most of these guys have been driving for many years), it is time to just admit it and get a TIP.

Ronzi · 06-09-2005, 10:37 AM

I seem to remember this same discussion (auto vs manual) from about a year ago, Lux. In the intervening period I don't think anybody has changed their mind, so what's the point for either side to think the other a bunch of dopes for their opinion?
If you like to shift, shift. If you don't, that's the reason Porsche offers the Tip in the first place.

KRZTACO · 06-09-2005, 11:14 AM

The closest I would come to get in an automatic is the Sequential on a Ferrari.

KRZ

scoobyrex27 · 06-09-2005, 12:59 PM

I admit the to me the TIP is a compromise (wife thing again) but I am not unhappy with it and find it has some advantages when i just want to cruise and be lazy.

Again, it is a compromise, but not a bad one at all.

Lux · 06-09-2005, 07:13 PM

Yeah, this discussion comes up every now and again. Same with Base vs S. Aren't we about due for one of those?

Again, I'm not trying to bash automatics. And yes, most people can't drive manuals for ********************. Hell, most people can't drive period!

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Brucelee · 06-09-2005, 07:39 PM

"Hell, most people can't drive period"

That is certainly true for Kalifornians!

xavier405 · 06-13-2005, 05:34 PM

Nobody has yet mentioned the little "superbutton" at the bottom of the throttle pedal on the tip. Its been my experience that if you floor it, the tip will downshift one gear. If you floor it extra and click the little button, then the tip will downshift two gears.

I also like the fact that after some lateral g's, the tip will maintain a low gear and not shift up. Sometimes I'm coming out of an offramp, nice and speedy, and the tip does not upshift like I expect it. It stays in low gear, as if the car is saying "Come on, buddy! Lets keep racing!!"

I've learned to be pretty good at managing the gears with my right foot, and also at initiating an aggressive driving program. It can be done.