[Flieger]

Originally Posted by Normy

My sig-other has a VW CC with the DSG transmission, and this thing is slick! It shifts instantly and you can barely tell, other than the sound of the engine, that it has happened. This car, this CC? This thing is dangerous to your license, because it is so smooth and quiet. You go 35 mph in a 35 mph zone in this thing and it feels like you are doing 20, so you tend to speed. The 200 hp engine doesn't help matters. Her previous car was an Acura TSX with 205 hp; the CC would have that silly Honda for breakfast! The performance of these two cars is night and day, a testament to the great god "torque"!

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This is not the transmission we are talking about. The VW/Audi uses two clutches for a nice smooth shift that neither you nor the rest of the gears feel.

The gearbox asked about in this thread uses no clutches for shifting. It is basically just getting gears to mesh by being at the same speed as they are crashed together. It is just done very quickly, carefully, and with lots of hope. Even if it is not gears crashing, there is some sort of engagement pawl that must be instantaneously accelerated (a physical impossibility).