{"id":862041,"date":"2026-08-18T03:18:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T03:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/862041\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T03:18:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T03:18:13","slug":"porsche-911-manuals-to-continue-as-long-as-theyre-legal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/862041\/","title":{"rendered":"Porsche 911 manuals to continue… as long as they’re legal"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Porsche<\/p>\n

The advancement in efficiency and speed of automatic transmissions has seen manuals become a rare commodity in recent decades, but some brands are committed to keeping three-pedal vehicles in showrooms.<\/p>\n

Porsche has long celebrated the manual transmission, offering it in a handful of base 911 variants (such as the Carrera T), as well as the GT3, which in Australia can be ordered with a manual or automatic transmission for the same price.<\/p>\n

Over in the US, Porsche last week added the new 911 Carrera S to its lineup of three-pedal models, launching the new \u2018MT Package\u2019 for the sports car, providing buyers with even more choice.<\/p>\n

Speaking to Road and Track<\/a>, Porsche North America CEO Timo Resch said the brand is seeing demand for manuals to support its continual offering to the public well into the 2030s.<\/p>\n

\"\"Porsche 911 Carrera S with MT Package<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can be assured that we will try to offer manual transmissions as long as we are legally allowed to, and as long as there’s customer demand,\u201d Resch said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd we see customer demand for the option, manual transmission also lasting well into the next decade.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to Resch, it was Porsche\u2019s customers who led to the introduction of the Carrera S with MT Package, having asked for a model between the track-focused GT3 and the base-level Carrera T.<\/p>\n

\u201c[…] obviously our customers have a close relationship with their Porsche centers,\u201d Resch said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"\"Porsche 911 Carrera S with MT Package<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd if they tell them, I would like to have a manual which kind of sits in between a GT3 and a T, we try to collect all of that feedback. And based on the history of, there was a Carrera S in the previous generation that had a manual transmission, we were like, \u2018let’s build a case.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

In the US, more than half of all 911 GT3s sold are manuals, while 80 per cent of GT3 Tourings are the three-pedal, suggesting drivers are looking for engagement with the car over the outright speed offered by the dual-clutch automatic transmission.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s no official plans to mate the manual transmission with Porsche\u2019s new T-Hybrid system yet, with the executive adding the two technologies are currently incompatible.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, the [hybrid] technology setup that we have in place right now, and a manual transmission, like you see in the Carrera S as the MT package, they are not compatible,\u201d Resch said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"\"Porsche 911 Carrera S with MT Package<\/p>\n

\u201cBut at the same time, it’s great to have an engineering team in Weissach that never stops thinking, and has a lot of great ideas. So I wouldn’t be surprised if at some point they come up with a solution, but it probably will not be a combination that you see here of a manual transmission.\u201d<\/p>\n

Earlier this year, Michael R\u00f6sler, head of the Porsche 911 product line, told the UK\u2019s Evo<\/a> magazine the US is helping to keep manuals in the brand\u2019s showrooms.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe look at the market closely and in Europe last time [in the 992.1], we saw two, maybe three per cent ordered a manual in the Carrera line,\u201d R\u00f6sler said.<\/p>\n

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Low demand won\u2019t stop Porsche from keeping manuals alive<\/p>\n

Demand for manual transmissions continues to fall as automatics have exponentially improved, but Porsche is committed to the stick.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThat gets us to some problems with our suppliers because they need to supply a certain number of parts. The US is a completely different story. The past GTS had about 50 per cent of customers ordering a manual.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor Porsche, in the US and Britain, manuals are a very interesting market. We watch it closely, it\u2019s why we did the Carrera T manual – it was one of my early decisions to do the Carrera T.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe wanted to make it sharper, we looked at the cable setup from the GT3, to lower it a bit. I think the precision with the three gates makes a difference.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Jordan<\/p>\n

\n Published<\/p>\n

August 18, 2026<\/p>\n


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