I have a hard time seeing any value in paddles... It has literally zero similarities to a real clutch transmission, itās not āsimulatingā true shifts and adds little to no value to me. Iāve used my paddles hardly ever because they donāt make the car faster and if shifting and revving is what I want to do Iāll get a manualā¦
Iām a save the manuals kind of guy but I opted for the 10 speed in my Mustang. I def use the paddles in the twisty parts. I donāt need to be going around a sweeping turn with a decreasing apex and have the transmission shift and upset the chassis. It has its uses.
I should have qualified my comment, when I was getting enthusiastic in my DSG cars they were great. But I did have to fit extensions to the paddles, factory ones were too easy to miss.
I'm a customer for these cars and applied for a GTD. I've had many high performance Fords and yet they denied my application. I thought I had a solid shot at it but for whatever reason I'll not be getting one. After the specs came out with additional pics of the interior and exterior the GTD is not what I thought it was going to be.
Why bother? They readily admit the PDK is faster. At the end of the day thatās what matters.
Ford should stop chasing 911 times on the ring unless they get serious with a chassis that can get a car down to 3,200 lbs or within a few hundred pounds of the GT3, but with a higher horsepower engine. Porsche chose to do this as it's what they have to play with currently until the 992.2 GT3RS and GT2RS is released. They know there's zero competition out there for current manual ring times.
Because Farley says he wants to beat the Europeans and go toe to toe with Porsche. Well Porsche has proven they can break records with multiple transmission options. We canāt
Very well said. And I like the GTD but your points are hard to refute. Especially when that GTD program money could have been put into actually investing in attainable Mustang models, instead of forcing the S650 generation into being S550 1.1. I wonder if we could have gotten next gen Mustang products had that money been spent elsewhere
That does mean we have to compete at every single level. They may have multiple options, we donāt. I wonder is Porsche is going to come back with its V8 because Ford has one.
Oh come on. Ford has billions available if they really wanted too. The GTD has had absolutely zero impact on our cars. Iām sure the shareholders eat up the GTD. But spending tens of millions on a car that sells as few as our Mustang, not so much.
It does to me. When we were battling Camaros and Challengers we sure had trim for trim competitions
They have billions available but they only allocate so much to the Mustang program precisely for why you said, itās low volume. So they are not going to do a GTD program AND other costly special editions. Thatās why we got the GT500 1.1 instead of something new. And we probably BARELY got that if Iām reading the tea leaves correctly.
That will never happen in a 911. The largest engine they offer is the 4.0 flat6 in the GT3 so the space is not available for a V8. The chassis is not packaged for a V8, and the low center of gravity in a flat 6 has its advantages over the big head coyote, or any V8 for that matter. The flat 6 defines Porsche performance, it's part of their DNA.
