RACING'S LOSS IS OUR GAIN Part 2; The Carrera GT is like a GT1 ALMS car with nicer seats and a nav system.

Byline: MARK VAUGHN "Given the time available during development, the quality, we felt, would not be appropriate,'' said Herbert Ampferer, head of Porsche Motorsport. "At the time, we felt these semi-automatic transmissions were not good enough.'' The manual is good, if a little vague in the middle of the double-H pattern.

It needs stronger springs to convey better feel. One "journalist'' the week before us tried to go from fifth gear to fourth and went instead from fifth to second. That might have been because the shifter was vague or it might have been because ...

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