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Originally Posted by thebmw
How much time have you spent in a DCT in traffic? It is worse than a manual. It lurches and shifts less smoothly than an auto. Couple that with carbon ceramic brakes, like I have, and it is lurching forward and jerking to a stop if you're not careful. Torque converters are a wonderful thing in stop-and-go traffic. Manuals are way smoother than DCTs, but more work.
DCTs are amazing if you are on the track, but they really offer no other real world advantage over the heavily refined ZF transmission. There is no replacement for a manual, for better or worse.
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Zero. I guess I was answering more from the perspective of an automatic transmission in general. But yeah, if the choice were a DCT or a manual, and DCT really do suck in stop/go traffic, then I guess I'd get the manual since I like that flavor of poison much more.
But in a general sense, I'd much prefer an A/T if my life included daily drives in long periods of stop/go traffic. Thankfully, it doesn't.