VW Passat 3.6 V6 (with Paddle Shifts)

amit · 23rd December 2005, 02:57

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I think the DSG technology will soon trickle down into Skoda and maybe the offerings in India will get DSG with paddle shifters. Anyone heard anything about this from the Skoda side?

The new Skoda Laura Tdi comes with DSG gearbox in India.
From what I know only the new Golf GTI has DSG with paddle shifters.

tsxei · 23rd December 2005, 03:39

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Originally Posted by amit

The new Skoda Laura Tdi comes with DSG gearbox in India.
From what I know only the new Golf GTI has DSG with paddle shifters.

I see. Thanks for that piece of info Amit. I thought DSG, by design, will have a paddle shifter. From your comment, it looks like DSG comes without the paddle shifter also.

amit · 23rd December 2005, 04:11

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I thought DSG, by design, will have a paddle shifter. From your comment, it looks like DSG comes without the paddle shifter also.

DSG doesn't come with paddle shifters by default. But yea, I drove a Jetta Tdi DSG after almost a month of driving in a normal automatic and the DSG just blew my mind with it's super fast shifts. You have to test drive a car with DSG to understand what I mean!

Insane Devil · 16th January 2006, 01:41

wow Amit, nice writeup. So the next big thing after the DSG in india , we can expect the PAddle shift coming here.

TSXei...Skoda is launching the LAURA with the DSG Gearbox, but unfortunately no PaddleShift! maybe if they add that in, then it wud be more VFM!

RacingForIndia · 21st February 2006, 12:15

That is one heck of a beautiful car. Nice review too.

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Insane Devil BHPian Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Hyderabad Posts: 987 Thanked: 173 Times View My Garage	wow Amit, nice writeup. So the next big thing after the DSG in india , we can expect the PAddle shift coming here. TSXei...Skoda is launching the LAURA with the DSG Gearbox, but unfortunately no PaddleShift! maybe if they add that in, then it wud be more VFM!
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21st February 2006, 12:15	#20
RacingForIndia BHPian Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Pune Posts: 484 Thanked: 36 Times View My Garage	That is one heck of a beautiful car. Nice review too.
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