Anyone miss Flappy Paddles?

[O2TheL]

Background.
I have always enjoyed backroad driving. I currently live in semi-rural Kentucky, but have also lived in South Carolina, Germany, New Zealand and UK, where there are lots of opportunities for smaller, twisty roads. I've had a wide range of daily and weekend cars (Lotus, AMG, Maserati, Audi, etc), enjoy riding motorcycles and have done a fair bit of autocross/track days. So my driving style is very much tuned to selecting gears coming into a curve and using engine braking to supplement pedal braking.

I've only had the Taycan for a 1000 miles, but have found my fingers reaching out for paddles for a downshift coming into corners.

Anyone else?

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[Abdul]

Me too!...came from a Jaguar F Type

 

[Sidicks]

Background.
I have always enjoyed backroad driving. I currently live in semi-rural Kentucky, but have also lived in South Carolina, Germany, New Zealand and UK, where there are lots of opportunities for smaller, twisty roads. I've had a wide range of daily and weekend cars (Lotus, AMG, Maserati, Audi, etc), enjoy riding motorcycles and have done a fair bit of autocross/track days. So my driving style is very much tuned to selecting gears coming into a curve and using engine braking to supplement pedal braking.
I've only had the Taycan for a 1000 miles, but have found my fingers reaching out for paddles for a downshift coming into corners.

Anyone else?

I certainly did on the test drive!

 

[V10tdi]

Did at first that temptation to go for a downshift but I miss more the gear stick somewhere to rest your hand but my wife just laughed at me this week when I tried to get reverse on her disco halfway up the dashboard ?‍ Guess we are being reprogrammed

 

[menzz]

Glad I’m not the only one

 

[BigBob]

Had (proper) manual/stick shift Boxster, 997 and AM DB9 - I miss those, they were fun. DB9 clutch was a bit heavy for London commute though. Not sure i ever bothered with the flappy paddles on PDQ Panamera Turbo and certainly not on assorted Range Rovers etc which also have them (why?).

 

[Jhenson29]

I miss a stick. I don’t care for paddles.

 

[Deleted member 6348]

Yep. For me, especially with the similarity to my 992C4S. Literally the same steering wheel on both cars.

 

[Leawood CT]

I sometimes find myself occasionally unconsciously reaching for them.

 

[masmole]

Don’t miss flappy paddles, but do miss having a clutch pedal and stick shift on a daily driver.

Still have one car in the garage with such relics, but sadly it is no daily driver.

 

[tbinmd]

I catch myself every now and then reaching for the left paddle to down shift.

 

[PNWTaycan4S]

Yes, it would be a big improvement, a big oversight. My daughter's KIA EV has them!

 

[Fish Fingers]

I had a manual M2 for a few years before the Taycan.
And always had manual cars before that (except 1 brief mistake with a DSG Golf R32 ). I didn't really gel with paddles.

Surprisingly, I took to the Taycan like a duck to water and have been fine for 10 months......until suddenly one day this week I started scrabbling about for the gear stick to get reverse.
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[herminal]

They should have added paddles for regen..

1 pull is 70kw regen another pull is 140kw and the last pull 300kw.. something like this..

if you touch the accelerator it cancels the regen…. Would have been awesome

 

[O2TheL]

They should have added paddles for regen..

1 pull is 70kw regen another pull is 140kw and the last pull 300kw.. something like this..

if you touch the accelerator it cancels the regen…. Would have been awesome

That's an interesting concept! Probably even more relevant in a 2-seat Cayman EV at some point

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