Tech Dept.: Diving Inside Porsche’s Seven-Speed Manual and PDK Transaxles

Tech Dept.: Diving Inside Porsche’s Seven-Speed Manual and PDK Transaxles:

Rummaging through the parts bin to build several cars out of the same basic bits is nothing new and, in rare cases,can even result in cars with distinct personalities. Porsche’s Boxster, Cayman, and 911 don’t suffer from sharing a multitude of  body, chassis, and powertrain components. Now Porsche’s transmission engineers have moved parts-sharing down to the micro level to reap two transaxles from one blueprint. The world’s first seven-speed manual gearbox is an offshoot of the seven-speed PDK dual-clutch automatic introduced three years ago for the 997-series 911. Both are available in the 2012 991-series 911 Carrera and Carrera S.

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