My DSG box seems fine

I must admit, the difference between the 60hp Yaris (old car) and thew new 180hp VRS is incredible.

It is such a smooth engine as well, the DSG box just makes it better imo.

(PS: The flappy paddle novelty is yet to wear off for me, I love them!)

I would be very surprised if you didnt notice the incredible difference given the Furby is 3x more powerful that your old Yaris

Glad youre enjoying the car.

As I said, I have driven two 1.2 tsi, non-dsg Skodas. One was a Yeti and one was a Fabia. Both had a delay of about one second when flooring the accelerator, whatever engine speed or gear they were in. So some of the delay is definitely not due to the dsg box.

I presume there must be some way around this delay on the VRS - otherwise how could they get the 0-60 time? People pay £thousands to shave one second off the 0-60 time

Sorry Mike...you didn't specify that they were manual box's in your original post, but thanks for clearing that up.

Is the 1.2 turbocharged & supercharged like the 1.4 engine? I would have expected some turbo lag at low revs on a purely turbocharged car but the main advantage of a supercharger is that it's running off the crankshaft so doesn't have the spool up issues (delay).

Is the 1.2 turbocharged & supercharged like the 1.4 engine? I would have expected some turbo lag at low revs on a purely turbocharged car but the main advantage of a supercharger is that it's running off the crankshaft so doesn't have the spool up issues (delay).

The 1.2tsi is only turbocharged. As far as I understand, being dependent on the exhaust flow, turbos tend to develop power at higher revs. The delay I found happened (I guess) out of the effective rpm range of the turbo. Can anyone confirm at what rpm the turbo kicks in?

The bigger the turbo and ancillary pipes for intercooler etc the longer the lag. I'm guessing the turbo is pretty diddy so there will be minimal lag.

I know that the 1.4's blower is meant to take over somewhere between 2400 & 3000 rpm.

I've checked the 1.2's peak torque. 85PS engine 1500-3500rpm & the 105PS engine 1550-4100rpm. It must be quite a small turbo to spool up & deliver peak torque so early (could be variable vane but I would doubt it as it's expensive to engineer for a petrol car...I know the Posche Turbo is variable vane)...I guess you could have a slight lag from 1000-1500rpm...but nothing compared to the DSG lag.