The crew over at EVO TV are in Geneva and they were able to spend time with Porsche's head of GT cars Andreas Preuninger. If you're wondering why Porsche went PDK only or what some of the other technical changes are about, then you're going to love this video. Evo's Jethro Bovingdon spends more than 18 minutes going through the car in detail with Andreas and there are a lot of great gems in there. Enjoy!
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Interesting comments why only PDK – tho I must have missed the “Government-gun-to-the-corporate-head-gas-mileage-requirements.”
Doug
@Doug,
While we think the “gun to the head” reason is valid for most of the fleet, Porsche sells so few of the GT3s that we can’t help but think that CAFE regulations, while important, didn’t play a big part in their decision making…
Thanks – gotta agree, up to a point abut CAFE for the fleet. However, does the GT3 have the “auto off at a signal” feature? Likewise – at the stroke of a political pen – Euro only cars can be banned for sale to the US of A. Witness Ferrari in the 70′s who made the decision not to meet DOT standards and import their 288 GTO or the 512 BB. US is a BIG Porsche market and to have even one of their cars considered ‘persona non grata” could be construed as a tacit admittance Porsche either doesnt care or they can’t cut the environmental mustard. As stupid as that would be. After all – who introduced the mixed drive (Hy-bred) to the world at the 1900 Paris Auto show? Porsche of course with his Lohner front drive.
Onward
Doug
@Doug,
Not 100% sure about the “stop/start” feature. However, we’re going to be inside one next week so we’ll let you know.