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Volkswagen lost an estimated $600m on a recent recall of 384,000 units of Volkswagen Group vehicles equipped with a 7-speed DSG in China alone.
Is that really relevant? DSG is new technology (which I'd classify as neither auto or manual).
Despite this I doubt this information will not sway you with regards to transmission reliability just as your witness testimony to a single manual transmission failure will not sway pro-manual drivers. It's all a Catch 22.
Pop quiz.
Two random run-of-the mill American made cars of the same make and model have had 10,000 miles attempted to be put on it for each of 18 years. It has only had the transmission fluid changed, no other service performed. One of the cars has a manual transmission, the other an automatic. You do not know who has driven the car before you, but you know that there have been multiple owners.
Which car is more likely to be running?