Most people who get a kick out of driving also get a kick out shifting their own gears. Not with a push of a button, the tug of a paddle or the nudge of a lever, but with a deft combination of well ...
When we were ordering the car, DSG made a lot of sense. Commuting anywhere around our L.A. headquarters is a nightmare, and a clutch leg is easily worn out over a 30-mile round trip of stop-and-go ...
Robert has been an auto enthusiast his entire life. He started working on cars at a young age, learning the basics from his father in the home garage on the weekends. Over the years, he learned as ...
A DSG has two clutches as opposed to one, and it doesn't use a pedal. That second clutch anticipates your next gear, so that changing gears is a smooth, quick process. If you're looking at diving into ...
There was a time, not that long ago, when the automotive industry tried to convince us that the future of performance was the motorsports-inspired dual-clutch transmission. But now, BMW‘s M division ...
Volkswagen has developed an evolution of its pioneering DSG gearbox. The new seven-speed system – a world first and codenamed DQ200 – uses a pair of dry clutches in preference to the six-speed version ...
James Martinez December 20, 2007 Comment Now! Modern automotive technology is getting so advanced, and the timeline for development so short that an item exclusive to the sacred province of the upper ...
Engineering Explained and The Humble Mechanic team are two YouTube channels with the goal of teaching us more about the cars we drive. Today, they get together to break down how Volkswagen's ...
Helping the GTI reach those performance numbers is a dual-clutch DSG gearbox that rifles off super-quick gear changes with either the paddles or the gear selector, or you can let sport mode take care ...
I have a 2022 VW Tiguan elegance 1.5 TSI with a DSG 7speed gearbox which has just turned 15,000 miles I was just wondering if it is still the same ...
Golf Rs registered up to 31 March 2017 will need you to stump up £305 every 12 months for road tax, though they avoid the added £325 penalty for cars with an original list price of more than £40,000 ...