1968 Porsche 911L SWB Sportomatic Is A Blast From The Past

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Porsche teaches us how to shift without a clutch.

The 1968 Porsche 911L SWB Sportomatic was an interesting and unusual German sports cars for a variety of reasons. One being that it had an automatic transmission or Sportomatic transmission, which was an automatic transmission you shift. That’s right, there’s no clutch, but the driver was able to shift the semi-automatic transmission. This might sound like the setup with paddle shifting found in nearly every car since 2014, but it wasn’t quite the same method used today.