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Originally Posted by De90man
VW pulled coup d'état with their DSG tranny. While engineers were either trying (badly) to make off-the-shelf slushboxes act like manuals or a manuals behave like autos (ferrari)...VW said let's just put two transmissions in one unit so the next gear, down or up, is pre-laoded. Pure Genius. 
BMW most likely pulled the SMG b/c it may've met their performance brief 8-10 years, but now, the game has moved on.
And too, read some of the nutter-all-out-performance guys threads here,..BMWs steptronic is making a lot of fans with their 100ms shifts, rev-matching blips, and easy lauching. At the very least, the step is a good stop-gap until the engineers come up with their own 'silver bullet' 
Porsche is doing a DSG, but my guess, since Ferrari (F430/599), and to an extent Mercedes (7sp box) got their act together using a traditional non-DSG approach, BMW will do the same. And it will be the perfect b/c they can't afford to miss the mark again. Amen  |
actually, VW didn't say anything. The DSG was developed by Borg-Warner and liscenced to VW.
The box is pure genius, though!