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Porsche Is Adding Fake Gear Shifts to Its EVs, 2027 Taycan Will Be First: Exclusive
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I mean you do buy it because its more controllable on the track than an automatic, which in turn means faster lap times. But for public roads yeah you get them for the fun and engagment they give you not for speed.
Manual shifting is slower than automatic. Racing would use automatic shifting if it were allowed.
DSGs are for racing, that’s why F1 uses them. They shift about as fast as you can blink, and are used in some road cars as automatics.
I am familiar with dsgs but they are mechanically more akin to a manual transmission than your traditional automatic. Its semantics but a DSG is a dual clutch transmission, i.e its an electronicly controlled manual transmission with 2 sets of clutchs for the even and odd gears which gives them there performance verus your traditional automatic which uses a torque converter that sequentially moves through the gears with more power train loss and lag.