DSG earns respect, but the manual carries the value

The Mk5's DSG gets genuine admiration as one of the first dual-clutch gearboxes on the market, and driving videos of tuned DSG cars converted several self-declared manual loyalists in-thread. Commercially, though, the corpus is consistent: commenters say GTIs depend on a third pedal for value more than almost any other enthusiast car, and the cheapest results here were clean DSG or automatic cars. …