Manual or DSG?

[matchboy]

sounds like you should start a thread on it!  i am manual, and i do a mixture of town (solid traffic) and rural roads (put one's foot down time).

[Ess_Three]

sounds like you should start a thread on it!  i am manual, and i do a mixture of town (solid traffic) and rural roads (put one's foot down time).

Not another thread!
There will be civil unrest if we do that (again).

[GrantUK]

For the love of god, don't start anothe thread! However I live out in the sticks but commute into the city and have DSG...great for when I can't be bothered to change gears when I'm still half asleep in the mornings, and great for spirited driving in manual mode on the way home

[gizzywizzy]

Maybe we can finally put this issue to bed!! this is a quote from the magazine "Volkswagen Driver" issue 113 October 2009. Quote "Not so long ago, the new DSG semi-auto was lauded as 'the thing to have', providing seamless automatic shifting, with manual override when required, and it was even claimed to produce improved performance and fuel economy with the conventional manual transmission.
While there are undoubtedly some advantages for the average driver in normal road use, none of our definitive performance tests were ever able to substantiate those claims for the DSG.  It's significant that the official figures now sing a slightly different tune, giving a fractionally higher top speed for the manual, identical values for 0-60 time and now actually showing slightly inferior figures for fuel economy and emissions with the DSG.  Its only advantage seems to be that it rates as slightly quieter, by one decibel". unquote.  As before it is down to personal taste as is everything in life!!! lol

[R32UK]

Well put GW!! we have a winner 

[Ess_Three]

Well put GW!! we have a winner 

Hurah!
Down with lies and un-truths...long live the manual transmission! 

[R32UK]

Although I do claim to have highlighted these figures somewhere near the start of this thread

[keelaw]

To further the argument for manual (and i drive a DSG btw), I was reading EVO mag, 100 greatest drivers cars of all time - all entirely subjective - but one telling line in it was that none of the top 10 had DSG/ PDK/ SMG or similar....


Personally I think its true.  For driver involvement you can't beat a manual.  

However for those of us who have other needs such as traffic driving, partners who don't like manual.... DSG is a good alternative.

[njc850]

I had a DSG R32, swapped to much more fun and mental ASTRA VXR, and will soon be getting a DSG MK6 GTI
Having worked my way through the 29 pages of this thread, I would agree with most of what everybody says, but I finally decided that I just can't be arsed to change gears anymore!
Decision helped by new baby in the back seat, causing enough of a distraction, can do with out worrying about gears too, and the fact that i am a lazy $hite!
I wouldn't bother if it was a standard auto box (had a citroen auto on hols, seemed to take a week in between changes) but I know the DSG is good enough to keep up with my boy racer moments when I have them, or my road rage moments when I have them, or to sit out the traffic jams for me, when am fed up of 1st 2nd 1st 2nd 1st etc.
Just my two pennorth, but you can't not buy something because it might break outside of warranty!
Each to his/ her own.
I wish VW had thrown in a stop/ start button, tight ba$tards.
Cheers all.

[Ess_Three]

Just my two pennorth, but you can't not buy something because it might break outside of warranty!

I agree. Had I liked the DSG, I would happily have paid the premuim for it, and wouldn't have given it another thought...if it breaks, it breaks.

I'm sure I'll manage to wreck the 2nd the 3rd synchro on the manual anyway...I usually do on VAG gearboxes. Oh well. Life's too short to worry about it.

I wish VW had thrown in a stop/ start button, tight ba$tards.

For me, not so much!
A key works just fine...there is something satisfying about the precision of twisting a key, rather than operating a microswitch!