No one seems to have mentioned the scoop new road test, uploaded at enormous effort at 18.00 today, before anyone else in the World, including Autocar, Auto Express and Ken Gibson of The Sun.
HJ
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HJ - that's because we're all still trying to work out how that gearbox works - you'll have to do little diagrams next time, for those of us who are a little bit hard of understanding.
Must be a hard life in your line of work..... ;-)
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We're not worthy, HJ! The gearbox sounds marvellous, but I notice you said "just boot the throttle and it will downshift to 2nd" - whose choice is that, or does it just know?
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See my related thread, "manual vs new tech auto box". I might be tempted by this kind of auto myself - if it was available in a diesel car I could afford ....
Well done on the scoop by the way - respect! And appreciation too.
andymc
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Q1: It 'kicks down' to 2nd.
Q2: Apparently the box works very well with diesels so will be coming in other VAG models such as the Touran, A3 and Golf V attached to diesel engines as well as the 3.2.
HJ
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"before anyone else"
I bet the Sun still claims to have got it first...
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HJ, I drove a TT 225 Cabrio last year for a few days and, in all honesty, found it a bit of a non-event dynamically - just the usual VW group hardware doing its job.
Is the DSG 3.2 a bit more of an occasion on the chassis front?
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The Sun? Wasn't that called the Beano or The Dandy in my youth?
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No
I remember it being akin to the shiny paper you used to find in school lavs (althoug that's probably against your humna rights nowadays). All they do now is print on it and you still have to rip your own sheets and thread it onto string.
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In answer to Jagworth, Ken Gibson did drive it before anyone else, but his column in The Sun isn't until Friday.
On the newsfront, a Mirror Group call centre salesman yesterday assured me that Sir Jeremy has switched to the Mirror and they'll be doing a car page every day.
HJ
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HJ,
Does it intelligently guess which way you're going next? If you're in third and accelerating then take your foot off the gas, does it work that out and prepare for a change down to second rather than up to fourth?
Also, ref your Leon sale, Steve is not a "nice guy".
V
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why's he not a nice guy?
i dont know any of you but i'm just intrigued!
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