Volkswagen has upset a number of Chinese consumers, particularly among the online community, who say the carmaker has failed to respond to complaints about a defective direct-shift gearbox (DSG) in ...

Car owners and auto insiders in China yesterday criticized Volkswagen's latest warranty extension plan for its problematic direct shift gearbox (DSG), saying that the German automaker has ignored core ...

I'm thinking of buying a Skoda Superb and wondering if there is still a problem with the DSG gearbox. I have seen reports that even though new cars have been brought to the Volkswagen plant to be ...

In the not-too-distant past if you were in the market for a new car you would have been faced with two choices when it came to the gearbox – manual, or automatic. These days though there’s another ...

Appearing for the first time in a Porsche 944 Turbo test vehicle in the 1980s, the dual-clutch transmission is one of the most significant developments in modern automotive history. Consisting of two ...

To understand the Volkswagen Group's three families of dual-clutch transmission, we first have to take a proverbial walk back through dual-clutch transmission history. Back to 1939, that is, because ...

Volkswagen is very quick to point out that the earlier transmission woes with its DSG gearbox have been fixed. Certainly, the later versions seem to be better, but the jury is still out on whether the ...

The Volkswagen Golf GTI is currently, and has long been, one of the best and most popular examples of the hot-hatch formula – as much as many would like to argue the point. Now, it’s important to ...