Maybe, but it doesn’t lurch in traffic either, which I hate about a DSG.  LOTS of stop and go traffic in the fancy-car markets in the states, if you think about it - DSGs sometimes are not fun for that.  

PS != HP, there’s a conversion there. Also, US drivers aren’t as fond of the DSG in traffic as a slushy auto... guessing on the latter one. That being said, there’s 8HP missing on the conversion...  different exhaust?  The transmission?  

You don’t travel that much do you?

You only live once. 350k in the same car would drive me insane. 

Don’t you have internet at home?  That seems rather nonsensical and a poor use of resources.  Mobile internet is a fraction the speed of a good wired connection.  

It’s on your WiFi then, not on the cellular network.  

Since when are you using your phone to stream to a 4k tv?  

At full throttle in a 0-60 / 0-100 run it does fine. Not great, but fine.  At anything else, it gets confused, stumbles around, jumps to the wrong gear and then tries to correct, and numbs the engine down quite a bit. Gear spacing isn’t the greatest either, if I remember right (wasn’t on the G at least).  

Yes - it’s not ~quite~ as good, but it’s still good - added bulk makes it a bit less nimble.  

I had high hopes for this car when it came out.  I was a very happy G37 owner for several years (other than the lazy transmission), but when it came time to refresh here this summer, I ended up with a lightly used 550M instead.  Even being the “numb” F10 version it had more spark than the Q50/60 does, which is sad...  

You can get the Q50 without the DAS - you also skip all the lane departure/etc crap, for better or worse, when you do that though.  

You know, it probably would have run better if I had!  

Pots and pans... yes :( No jet dry though. Maybe that would have fixed the idle hang it picked up afterwards?

You’re missing the point. I’m not shifting from 5th to 4th to 3rd to 2nd while coming up to a stop light. I’ll downshift from 5th or 6th to third (maybe 4th, depending on vehicle speed) (rev-match if possible), then when I hit the point that the injectors have started firing again (1500rpm in the C5; there’s a lurch,…

Many of the ones with the ZF 8 speed shift at redline regardless of mode.  :(  Hell, I think the Golf-R does with the SMG too, but I could be wrong on that.  There are quite a few that do it assuming you “screwed up”.  :(  

It can’t know that I’m about to pull out to pass someone. It doesn’t know until I mash the throttle down, and downshifts to catch up. It doesn’t know (although it learns REALLY fast) that I’m going all out, and it needs to drop 4 gears. I can TELL it that by whapping the paddle 4 times (maybe even 5), but there’s no…

In racing, you’re either accelerating or decelerating- very few times you skip more than one gear, if even, as you come up on your next turn/pass/etc. Driving down the highway, plenty of times I’ve shifted from 6th to third to pass, and having to go through every gear on the way down (especially with something like an…

I put a 305 TPI throttle body off an 87 Firebird Formula into the dishwasher once. The IAC was a bit... off after that. Probably should have pulled the sensors first. Food tasted funny too, so I probably damaged my long term mortality prospects some too. But hey, it idled finally after that.

Brakes are a consumable item.  They’re SUPPOSED to be used.  Money?  they’re CHEAP.  

Yes. Because until the computer can see what’s coming up ahead, it has no way of knowing what gear I’ll ~need~ to be in. It can react stupid fast, sure. The paddles can help, sure - but you can’t easily skip gears with them, and even reacting is not anticipating. Track is different, somewhat, since you’ll either be…