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 VW model to be fitted with the dual-clutch gearbox was the Golf R32 hot hatch, which back in 2003 was one of the first production cars in the world to feature the efficient gearbox design. Today close to a quarter of every new VW is built with a DSG and this proportion is only set to rise with the release of a new low cost six-speed unit and an all new seven-speeder.
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