997 tiptronic - will i regret it??

[jon350z]

Hi.

I am picking up a 2007 c2s tiptronic (no sports chrono) next week. I knew I wanted an auto as fed up with manual driving in london traffic in my current 350z so it had to be tip (PDK too £££). Only now am i starting to see lots of negative comments about it :0 - is there anyone out their who loves their tiptronic??!
Also it's atlas grey but i'll leave that for another debate...

Jon.

[TheDeadPrussian]

You won't regret it whilst driving around in London...elsewhere however...

[clorenzen]

Tiptronic in the turbo is ok. It is in the normally aspirated 997 that you often find yourself short shifted. The turbo will pull regardless of which gear you're in so the fact that the tiptronic likes to shift up to 5th gear is less noticed with the turbo.

[khushy]

dont worry - you will love it!

[Dr S]

Tiptronic = one of Porsche's biggest sins IMHO

[Blue62]

Personally NO, but if it suits you then don't worry, same with the colour. FWIW, had an Atlas 997 few years ago, think it's my favourite, enjoy it.

[easter]

atlas grey is a great choice

tip in london also great choice

[jon350z]

thanks for the comments, hopefully the people who really hate it are track enthusiasts or Driving Gods, neither of which am I, just hope when i floor it it still makes me laugh like a madman and goes fast round corners!

[Soovy]

Plenty of people here with Nomex underpants who'll tell you that it's rubbish.

It's not.


I live in London, and ran a Tip for 60,000 miles and five years. It was wonderful.

One journey in fifty, I'd wish I had a clutch and a manual box. But not enough to make me think that I chose wrongly.

[eagle1]

Quite a lot of interesting info on tip on this thread - http://911uk.com/viewtopic.php?t=70891
Might interest you if you are going the tip route which in my biased opinion would be best for London.

[anonymous-user]

Soovy said:

Plenty of people here with Nomex underpants who'll tell you that it's rubbish.

And who heel and toe their way round the Tesco carpark on a Saturday afternoon.

[taaffy]

Even on the open roads it's still mighty fast . Yes the tip box is slower to change but if you just anticipate where you would normally change in a manual and tip the button a fraction before that and you'll be just fine.
I remember a road test where two Boxsters were driven across the moors of Yorkshire, one was tip the other manual....outcome was that the tip covered the ground faster.

buy it ... drive it ... enjoy it ......

[supermono]

I was telling my 14 year old son i was thinking of a 2k jaaag barge with slushbox for wafting about effortlessly, he said, and I quote "but won't it change gear mid-corner and kill you?"

He knows his stuff my boy

SM
Btw in london why not?

[sticks090460]

I live in London and find tiptronic to be excellent. If you want to over-ride it, stick it in manual. I also find it perfectly acceptable on track days, since I can concentrate on line and braking points rather than worrying about a level six over-rev. Driving gods on here will no doubt disagree, but each to their own is my view. Oh, and if anybody starts rambling on about 0-60 times, challenge them to the best of, say, five runs in a row....the abuse to which you have to subject a manual car to get the factory time is considerable. On the tip' - floor and forget.

[gadgetJunky72]

i bought a manual a few years back and spend most of my time in traffic jams. i really wish i'd bought an auto.

i thinks sports chrono changes the shift pattern for the better. you can get this retro-fitted (without the wart) for about £400. I'd recommend looking into that.

actually can someone else just confirm the above please? i'm wondering if i'm thinking about PDK and not tip.

[Tydeides]

I have tiptronic and in London and cruising between London and Bristol the car is amazing. I think that a lot of bashing tiptronic is the gearbox equivalent to people saying the engine is in the wrong place. Perhaps it is, but the car is still more rewarding to drive than 98% of cars on the road.