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Originally Posted by Ronbo
Don't these sequential manual transmission cars go through clutches terribly quickly? I seem to remember reading about the Ferrari/Maser/Aston clutches needing replacement around the 20K mile mark, or worse if you do a lot of driving in traffic. Not sure if it's the same with the BMW SMG or the VW DSG.
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The BMW and Audi variants both make clutches lasts
longer, because the computer is better at shifting than a human could ever be. From what I've read BMW is dropping SMG to license Audi's DSG (they've changed the acroynm, iirc) which everyone seems to love.
My own opinion is that electornics are great for engine management - give me fuel/throttle maps and variocam/variaram and all that, fine. When you've got to ask permission to drive (however poorly the computers think you do so), that's when we've got a problem. Especially irksome is everyone's insistence that you can't drive without such aids - what were people doing the 100 years before the technology came out? Engine management, fine. Driver management, not so good.