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That's BS! Step/Tiptronic are fancy automatics ... (archive)
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Posted by AvusBlue on September 25, 1999 at 16:20:57:

In Reply to: Advantage of Step/Tiptronic posted by Xzibit on September 25, 1999 at 10:46:35:

: at the porsche dealer i was test driving the new 911 and the salesman man was teaching me how to shift and use the tiptronic. and he stated that if you can shift using step/tiptronic like Alex Zanardi can, then it will outperform a traditional manual.

with all the associated power losses through their transmissions. The best you could do is outperform the standard automatic unless who(m)ever was shifting the manual was hamfisted. If those transmissions were clutchless manuals, then thats a different story.

David

AvusBlue 95M3/2

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