Every car I have ever owned has allowed "heal and toe" technique to make smooth downshifts. My new Boxster has the gas pedal pivioted on the floor! Heal and toe is impossible. The brake pedal is too high to allow rolling the foot. Do Porsche drivers not use "heal and toe" when downshifting? Or is there a techique that I do not know?
Personally, I find the Boxster one of the easiest cars I've ever owned to heal-toe! I think the difference with the bottom hinged throttle is that you genuinely have to 'heal-toe' (I.e. stab the throttle with the heal rather than the rolling motion using the side of the foot technique that you'd use with a conventional throttle pedal).
Maybe it's just me but I find the pedal spacing and the relative pressure required between pedals just perfect.
There is a pedal kit that Porsche sell for an exorbitant price that supposedly improves the ability to heal-toe (it has an extra lump on the side of the throttle pedal) but I don't find it in the slightest bit necessary.
Mark
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