New Porsche 911 turns up with seven-speed manual

The brand new 911 will get a seven-speed stick shift.

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Unlike many sport luxury carmakers, Porsche has handled to maintain its signature model, the 911, small , lightweight. Whenever we examined the present 911 GTS, i was astounded by the car's capability to dance around corners and out-run BMWs, yet still time submiting excellent gas mileage.

For that 2012 model year, Porsche is upgrading the 911, even though you would hardly realize it from searching in the bodywork. The general design continues to be same, but Porsche handled to shed 100 pounds in the vehicle.

And together with Porsche's double-clutch gearbox, the PDK, this new 911 can be purchased having a seven-speed stick shift. This is actually the first production vehicle to boast a lot more than six gears having a manual stick. The additional gear should lead to greater gas mileage, together with driver confusion for the way well Porsche designed the gate.

Porsche will formally unveil the brand new 911 at next month's Frankfurt auto show.

CNET Australia has more particulars about the new 911, with some photos showing the outside and interior. Browse the full publish at CNET Australia.

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