It’s one of the latest waves in motoring, and rightfully so. Automated dual clutch transmissions have been touted as the beginning of the end for the synchromesh manual and the automatic transmission. Or is it?
Dual clutch transmissions have appeared as various names (or acronyms) in different automobiles of several brands. Porsche was the one of the first to use the dual clutch concept with their race cars, known as Porsche-doppelkupplung (PDK), but only made its way into their showroom cars in 2008. The Volkswagen group has their Direct Shift Gearbox (DSG), known as S-Tronic for Audi. Rival BMW has their M-DCT, Ford has their new Power Shift while Nissan debuted theirs in the GT-R and Mitsubishi’s TC-SST was launched with the Evo X.
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03-03-2010, 10:42 PM
Dual clutch transmissions
