WOLFSBURG, Germany -- The Volkswagen brand plans to replace all of its transverse-mounted automatic transmissions with its direct-shift gearbox over the next five years. The direct-shift gearbox, VW's ...

Volkswagen Group launched production of direct-shift gearboxes at a new plant in the north China city of Tianjin to supply its ever-expanding fleet in China. The 265 million euro (2 billion yuan) ...

Volkswagen has set itself a target of improving the efficiency of its future models as much as 15 percent by 2020. To do so, the firm is working on a new generation of twin-turbocharged diesel engines ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the early 2000s, when the Direct Shift Gearbox (DSG) debuted, there was a problem that many drivers faced when buying a new car ...

Dual-clutch transmissions are becoming increasingly popular offerings by all automakers in the search to save every drop of fuel. But the auto-boxes have another benefit: not only do they shift faster ...

Eight years after its introduction in Europe, Volkswagen has sold over 3.5 million Direct-Shift Gearboxes (DSG) globally. In 2008,a seventh gear was added to the DSG and in 2009, a new model was ...

Volkswagen’s dual-clutch gearbox, the DSG, is now a cause for litigation over patent royalty fees. Dr. Wolfgang Schreiber, the former CEO of Bentley, and also the head of the transmission development ...

Alex Kaufmann February 5, 2008 Comment Now! Volkswagen reached a new milestone today, the carmaker announcing that it has sold one million vehicles fitted with a Direct-Shift Gearbox (DSG). The first ...