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I used to feel that way, but then I drove a few PDKs. Now I'm daily driving a DSG gearbox VW quite happily. I don't feel like I'm missing anything. When I want to get on it, I just knock the shifter to the side and take over on the paddles. I wouldn't hesitate for a minute to drive a PDK Porsche.
The thing I've always found slightly ironic is that everyone talks about the 3rd pedal. In motorsports, we've spent years refining the gearbox to the point where you don't need to use the pedal. The PDK came out of racing technology attempting to make faster shifts and spend less time where you aren't putting power to the wheels between shifts. Having spent some time driving dog boxes, getting good enough at it that you can skip or barely use the pedal is the point. It's hard, so hard in fact, that on the 997 Cups they added blippers and rev-matchers to the gearboxes because owners were destroying them quickly, and sometimes catastrophically. Yet the manual die hards, always going back to their precious clutch pedal. The clutch pedal is obsolete.
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2009 Outback XT
2008 Cayman S shop test Mule
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