Quote:
Originally Posted by visualguy
Oh, and DCT is an automatic gearbox. Sure, you can change gears manually with it (just like you can do it on many other automatic transmissions), but it's a completely different experience than driving with a clutch and a stick.
|
Entitled to your opinion, doesn't make it correct. Let's imagine for a moment a though experiment. Let's suppose that in a certain DCT tranmission the depression of the paddle activated the clutch and the releasing of the level activated the shift. How is that any different, in essense from a manual transmission where one leg operates the clutch and the arm operates the lever. Oh yeah I guess I missed letting off the gas. Oh yeah some MTs can cut the throttle for you so no gas pedal let off requried.
As far as the experience let's focus on the actual feeling in the car. You can hear and feel clutch and selector operation in the M-DCT (indeed sometimes more prominently than others, but it is still there). The essential difference is any traditional automatic transmission is the feeling of separation in terms of very small jerk/accelerations that are lost because of the FLUID clutch - the torque converter.
Why is this the case? Again because in its most pure design, engineering and mechanical essence, on its inside, it is nothing more than a manual transmission.
Calling them dual clutch transmissions or automated manuals is more clear, more precise and more useful.