The Porsche 911 has offered a manual transmission continuously since its 1963 debut, evolving through Sportomatic, the 915, the G50, a standard six-speed in th…
Porsche presented its 356 successor as the 901 on September 12, 1963, with a rear-mounted air-cooled flat-six and the Type 901 manual gearbox, offered in four- and five-…
Sportomatic removed the clutch pedal using a vacuum-operated clutch and torque converter, but the driver still selected every gear manually. It proved itself the same ye…
Developed with Getrag for the 911 Carrera 3.2's 1987 model year, the G50 replaced the notchy 915 gearbox with a hydraulic clutch and Borg-Warner synchronizers, producing…
The 993, Porsche's last air-cooled 911, was the first generation to offer a six-speed manual as standard equipment, replacing the 964's five-speed. It ran from January 1…
PDK, a seven-speed dual-clutch automatic, reached the 997-generation Carrera and Carrera S in 2008 after a three-year development program with ZF. It traces to 1980s Gro…
The 991-generation 911, unveiled at the 2011 Frankfurt Motor Show, introduced what Porsche calls the first seven-speed manual gearbox in a series-production car. Gears o…
Porsche brought back the lightweight, rear-seat-delete Carrera T, built around a manual gearbox with a shortened lever and a walnut MT-badged knob. By the 992.2 update i…
The Carrera GTS T-Hybrid became Porsche's first street-legal hybrid 911, pairing the flat-six with an electrically driven turbocharger and a motor built into the transmi…
Announced August 13, 2026, the Carrera S MT Package pairs a six-speed manual with the Carrera S's 473-hp twin-turbo flat-six, exclusive to North America. Porsche cited s…
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