PDC - No DB9 manuals :-(
Discussion
After all the talk in spacecowboy's V12V thread, I called up to book a PDC for myself. I explained I had recently got a DB9 Manual and would like to learn it's capabilities etc but immediately was told they only have DB9 Autos.
I am now wondering what I should do? I really want to do the PDC and experience what my car feels like on and beyond the limit but won't be happy driving the auto version.
Can anyone recommend a different model of AM that would give me as close to a DB9 Manual experience? Am I silly to rule out the DB9 Auto given the only thing different is the box? Will a DBS manual be so different to the DB9s capabilities?
I am now wondering what I should do? I really want to do the PDC and experience what my car feels like on and beyond the limit but won't be happy driving the auto version.
Can anyone recommend a different model of AM that would give me as close to a DB9 Manual experience? Am I silly to rule out the DB9 Auto given the only thing different is the box? Will a DBS manual be so different to the DB9s capabilities?
jamespconnor said:
Am I silly to rule out the DB9 Auto given the only thing different is the box? Will a DBS manual be so different to the DB9s capabilities?
I thik you would be wasting your time to do it in the auto, the manual DBS makes a lot more sense. Yes it'll have slightly more power and grip, but you won't ever drive your car on the road like you do on the PDC so it won't be an issue. Size is the same, weight very similar, layout and weight distribution is the same near as damn it.
Go with the DBS manual, 100%.
/if they have one of those..?
Equally, the difference between public roads and the PDC course are huge.
Having a car with slightly better brakes, slightly better acceleration, slightly more grip, slightly less weight, slightly LESS torque but with the SAME transmission and three-pedal layout would be far more important to me that a power-sapping torque converter automatic.
It's unlikely you'll be able to drive it at 10/10ths because you don't know the area, and only competitive racers drive at 10/10th anyway regardless of the heroics talked about on here
Otherwise you'd stack the car every monthon the public road.
The DBS manual is the same car as the DB9 manual, just made slightly better in every mechanical way.
Auto and manual are two far more different kettles of frogs than a slight weight/power differential, to me at least.
Having a car with slightly better brakes, slightly better acceleration, slightly more grip, slightly less weight, slightly LESS torque but with the SAME transmission and three-pedal layout would be far more important to me that a power-sapping torque converter automatic.
It's unlikely you'll be able to drive it at 10/10ths because you don't know the area, and only competitive racers drive at 10/10th anyway regardless of the heroics talked about on here
Otherwise you'd stack the car every monthon the public road.The DBS manual is the same car as the DB9 manual, just made slightly better in every mechanical way.
Auto and manual are two far more different kettles of frogs than a slight weight/power differential, to me at least.
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