DSG

Volkswagen announced today that it has produced one million dual-clutch gearboxes, all at the company's Kassel, Germany factory. As we've been writing a lot recently, DSG (VW's name for the boxes) is a way to reduce fuel consumption because they bridge the mechanical efficiency of a manual ...

If you have one of Volkswagen's new DSG transmissions in your Golf, Golf Estate, Golf Plus or Jetta, then you also have the 2008 "Yellow Angel" award from ADAC under the hood. ADAC, the German automobile club, awarded the "Gelber Engel" prize to VW's Dual clutch transmission this week and VW Group ...

Dual clutch transmissions are all the rage these days because they combine the mechanical efficiency of a manual transmission with the ability of automatic transmissions to self-shift. Volkswagen was the first to introduce them to production cars under the DSG name a few years ago. Now they are ...

BorgWarner has broken ground for a second manufacturing plant in Arnstadt Germany to build their DualTronic transmission modules. The DualTronic clutch system is the heart of the renowned Volkswagen/Audi DSG gearbox. The clutch system can be used with most conventional manual transmissions to allow ...

Volkswagen has added a new version to their range of TSI engines as well as an updated DSG dual clutch gearbox. At the Vienna Motor Symposium they are showing a 122 hp 1.4L TSI that like it's 138 hp and 168 hp siblings uses direct fuel injection and turbocharger. Unlike the two more powerful ...

While I was walking down the aisles at the SAE World Congress last week in Detroit, I stopped by the Zeroshift booth to speak with some of the engineers and salespeople from the company. On display was a small demonstration of how their replacement for the common synchro's inside manual ...