DSG, When is it available?
09-11-2006, 04:25 PM
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Originally Posted by joolsbourne
DSG has three modes really.
One is normal driving, one for sport driving where it holds the revs higher and fully manual.
I love this gearbox for my daily driver, but it is too sanitised, too good for a sportscar. I would never spec it in a car that I wanted to drive for fun.
One is normal driving, one for sport driving where it holds the revs higher and fully manual.
I love this gearbox for my daily driver, but it is too sanitised, too good for a sportscar. I would never spec it in a car that I wanted to drive for fun.
09-16-2006, 12:14 PM
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the Bugatti Veyron also is about 5 times more expensive than the 997TT meaning every component in that car costs several times more including their DSG system. I'm told that the whole system had to use super exotic materials for it to work. I was shocked the other day when I read an article about the Veyron stating that the glove compartment alove costs $40k. Whoah! I'll have to re-read that again to make sure I was right about that.
09-16-2006, 02:55 PM
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Bugatti uses something called DCT developed by Ricardo.
Porsche's sequential manual will NOT be the DSG. They abandoned that tranny a long time ago because it cannot handle the torque of their topline models.
The Porsche system will likely be released under the PDK banner and, if I'm not mistaken is also being developed by Ricardo since they made the sequentials for the Porsche GT3 Cup Cars in the past.
http://www.ricardo.com/engineeringse...ge=casestudies
Porsche's sequential manual will NOT be the DSG. They abandoned that tranny a long time ago because it cannot handle the torque of their topline models.
The Porsche system will likely be released under the PDK banner and, if I'm not mistaken is also being developed by Ricardo since they made the sequentials for the Porsche GT3 Cup Cars in the past.
http://www.ricardo.com/engineeringse...ge=casestudies
hmm...
