I now need to win the lottery, because I was recently in a Porsche dealership for non Porsche related reasons and I was bemusing about manual transmissions to my father who was accompanying me at the time. The salesman in the room, overhearing us, asserted “manuals are going the way of the dinosaur.”
“I heard a rumor…

Isn’t something like that a totally non-emissions compliant drag racing engine (or similar motorsports oriented crate motor)?
Not trying to say stuff like that isn’t cool (cause it totally is cool especially with whatever the heck your custom crank offset is), but just another perspective on how it’s different and a…

I find pleasure in pronouncing Bugatti in a hurried American southern accent as:
Bug-itty

How comfy are the seats for long drives?
I’ve got a MK6 with the base cloth seats and it starts getting a little uncomfortable by the time I get “up north” from the Detroit area (trips longer than 3 hours). I find the tilt control of the driver’s seat bottom on mine to be...crap.