Every generation of the Porsche 911 needs to introduce new innovations and achieve even higher standards than the one before it. When developing the 991-generation Porsche 911, which first hit the road for the 2012 model year, one such innovation would put a world-first piece of hardware in the driver’s right hand: a 7-speed manual transmission. The six-speed manual had long been the standard for performance cars, and a 7-speed box had never been done before.
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