Dual-Clutch Transmissions Losing Out to Conventional Automatics in America

It must have been over a decade ago that this automotive writer watched Fifth Gear’s Jason Plato drive the Mk5 Volkswagen Golf GTI. At the time, he said the optional DSG gearbox was a “beautiful system and definitely the future of changing gears.” Plato even went as far as to say that manufacturers like Ferrari and Aston Martin should stop making F1-style cog smashers and instead develop their o…