Volkswagen plans to roll out nex-gen Passat this year; new 10-speed DSG box coming too

Volkswagen shed few info on their upcoming plans at the Vienna Motor Symposium in Austria; the company is planning to launch an all-new Passat this year, the car will go into production this fall. VW India gave Passat a mild facelift last year, expect the nex-gen to enter early 2015. The car has been caught numerous times in Europe testing fully-camouflaged. Passat will also debut the newer generation of VW's one of the heavily used 2.0 liter TDI diesel motor. The new engine is bi-turbo and produces an output of 236bhp. Other brands in the company like Audi and Skoda will get this engine later after its introduction in the new Passat.

Passat in India falls in the premium saloon segment which sees rivals like Skoda Superb, Toyota Camry and Hyundai Sonata. This segment will spruce-up in the imminent future, Skoda recently updated Superb, Toyota showcased the all-new Camry at New York International Auto Show last month, Hyundai also introduced next-gen Sonata this year. Honda will bring the new Accord this year after it was discontinued for a brief period in 2013. The new Accord was showcased at the 12th Indian Auto Expo in February. Germans will get tough competion from Koreans, Japanese and Czechs next year.

VW will also introduce an all-new 10-Speed DSG dual-clutch auto box, said VW development chief Hans Jakob Neusser at the annual Vienna Motor Symposium in Austria. DSG is a magnificent piece of machinery providing relief of an automatic with adrenalin rush of a manual! What does DSG works- lets get you acquaint with it. DSG gearbox is an automatic transmission that uses two gear shafts instead of one found in conventional ATs. When you put your stick in the drive mode, the first shaft engages the 1st gear while the second shaft already keeps the second ready for you – as a result delay in changing gears is reduced dramatically.

Now, when the second shaft puts the second gear in action the first shaft rushes for the third gear to keeps it in standby, and this goes on reducing the shifting time to less than four-hundredths of a second. DSG comes with two driving modes normal and sports. In sports mode it waits longer for up-shift so that you can extract more from each gear. You can also operate it manually, nudge the gear lever down or forward to shift gears. You can touch rev limit in each gear in manual operations! DSG offers effortless and smoothest shift possible and requires less maintenance compared to conventional.

The company has two DSG gearboxes currently 6-speed DSG and 7-speed DSG, former is used in powerful engines while the later is used in less powerful motors. VW Polo GT TSI comes with a 7-speed DSG box in India. Its unknown that which vehicles in the VW clan will get this box as of now.

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