Originally Posted by Black993

+1 for the above!

My good friend had an A3 with DSG. It was fun, but at normal driving it is exactly as described in RallyJon's post. Throttle seemed all over the place. Full throttle and messing around in it was fun, just not driving how you would in a daily driver.

Originally Posted by RallyJon

EVO magazine has some very good comments on the DSG. They're one of the few reviewers who don't particularly like it. Basically they loved it in foot-on-the-floor zooming around mode, but around town or in auto mode they found it jerky and that the throttle position was poorly matched to the shift modes. Basically, hard to idle around smoothly without it lunging forward boy racer style at every stop.

I'll see if I can find and scan their commentary.