CAR Magazine reports:
"We don’t often get heavy snow in this country, but when we do I find myself longing for one thing in a car, and it isn’t four-by-four; it’s a manual gearbox. Another bout of snow hit CAR HQ yesterday, and I'm glad the Scirocco R I was heading home didn't have a DSG 'box.
Much as we marvel at the smoothness and frugality of each successive generation of dual-clutch gearbox, they simply don’t give you the level of control you get with a manual. Last March, for instance, I couldn’t leave my own street because the Jaguar XF’s slusher was stuck in first gear and its rear tyres flailed helplessly, ditto an Audi R8 R-Tronic on a snowy Spanish hillside. With a manual I’d have slotted second gear, job done.
Then this year the cold snap finished off a relative’s ageing battery, but she couldn’t bump-start it because it was – ta-da! – an auto..."
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