If they made a version of the DSG with a clutch pedal so you could pull away as you liked and then drive it like a sequential rally gearbox I'd be very interested ... Very interested indeed :P...

They do have paddle shifts

.....and the diesel box is 6 speed..

the petrol is 7speed..due to lower torque of the petrol

Should just point out that this thread was started over 5 years ago, when no doubt there were some changes in the engines/DSGs available...

A DSG that can handle 1,250 newton metres of torque can be found in the Bugatti Veyron being the extreme example - my 7 speed Octy. can handle one fifth of that at 250 Nm. http://wapedia.mobi/en/Direct-Shift_Gearbox

My boss recently too delivery of a Scirocco with the 170CR and DSG. Upfront I've never been an auto man as I prefer the control the manual box provides but........after driving the car to Huddersfield and back in a day from Gatwick I am all but converted........and to be honest rather ****ed off I've just bought a manual VRS 170CR!The quality, smoothness and just outright drivability was astonishing. I only once used the flappy paddles as the change is so well judged and there is no way on Gods green earth anybody can change gear that quickly and smoothly in a manual.My only concern, and one I've raised on here previously is that as I actually have to run my own vehicle, I would worry about the complexity and reliability of the box. Many taxi drivers in the Brighton area used to run Skodas with DSG and had ALL kinds of issues, some of them waiting months for replacement gearboxes etc. I am sure that the issues have been resolved by now given that we are on second / third generation DSG by now but I would still always have that niggling doubt at the back of my mind that the thing would go haywire and end up costing me an arm and a leg to replace.It is the future though and despite all of the above, I would think that this VRS is my probably the last manual car I'll buy......its DSG for me in five years time! BTW, Bassa - I doubt that the DGS in your average Skoda Octavia is the same as the one fitted to the Veyron...:-)

I've said this before, I don't think driving the DSG as a taxi does the box any favours, I'll go one further..........I don't think modern turbo diesels with their EGR's, DPF's and DMF's are a good choice for taxi's anymore, these cars are in their element out on the open road, stretchin their legs but as soon as you put them in a slow speed,stop start 24/7 envoiroment all these new fangled systems will give trouble. I am a sales rep and I have 280,000kms on my remapped PD140 DSG and the box hasn't missed a beat !! (knock on wood)

A DSG that can handle 1,250 newton metres of torque can be found in the Bugatti Veyron being the extreme example - my 7 speed Octy. can handle one fifth of that at 250 Nm. http://wapedia.mobi/en/Direct-Shift_Gearbox

Yes but thats a Ricardo box that shares no resemblance to the Borg-Warner ones in our cars

Yes but thats a Ricardo box that shares no resemblance to the Borg-Warner ones in our cars

I know but I like to think of it as a sort of second cousin - relatively speaking that is.

I know of someone that is about to bolt a GT3076 onto his Golf Edition 30 with DSG.

It has already been running 360hp and 350lbft from the standard turbo and from the bigger one the figures are planned to be inexcess of 450bhp.