Last year alone VW sold more than 400,000 DSG units and demand is increasing so much that production at VW’s Kassel plant in Germany had to be increased to 1,750 units per day.
The benefits of the design include extremely fast shift times, in some cases taking only 8 milliseconds, barely any power less because of the lack of a torque converter, faster acceleration because there’s barely any dip in power when the gears are changed, and better fuel economy than both conventional and automatic transmissions. Little wonder other carmakers are rushing to install dual-clutch ‘boxes in their own lineups. Earlier this week Renault announced its own plans to launch vehicles with dual-clutch gearboxes and before that Fiat confirmed it would have the transmission in its cars by September of next year.