[stefan]

I recently drove a DCT M2. Utterly lifeless. I cannot understand why anyone would pick this over the increasingly rare manual option unless you don't know how to drive it. I will gladly give my left foot a workout in traffic for the reward of having the right transmission for this car.

DCT just isn't sporty. It's really competent but not particualrly fun. Although when I say competent I have to confess the ZF 8sp in recent iterations is 90% as good in most situations. Unless you're using launch control which requires you to jump through hoops, launches are uninteresting and laggy. The auto mode is weirdly unintuitive and unexciting on downshifts unless you intervene with the paddles. Which are mounted to the steering wheel which is also kind of ridiculous.

Don't do it. Besides the market is flooded with them.