2009 Porsche Boxster S With PDK
Posted by admin on March 9, 2009
2009 Porsche Boxster S With PDK
Porsche likes to remind the driving public that “there is no substitute” for its iconic sports cars. Likewise, many die-hard enthusiasts stubbornly maintain that nothing less than a conventional manual transmission will do for spirited driving. Porsche knows this as well as anyone: Despite the long-standing American love affair with the automatic, roughly 75 percent of Porsche sports cars sold in the United States are equipped with old-fashioned stick shifts, according to company sources. It was thus with some skepticism that we flew to Italy to sample the 2009 Porsche Boxster S and its new seven-speed Porsche-Doppelkupplungsgetriebe (PDK) dual-clutch automated manual, which Porsche expects to be chosen by at least 50 percent of its sports-car buyers going forward.
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