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Worldwide Conditions and New Transmission Technology

With the technological advances of the past 100 years the world has become smaller. Fax machines, the Internet, cell phones and the globalization of industry have created a business climate that is evolving at an incredibly rapid pace.

When Is a Stick Not a Stick?

Which brings us to the meat of this article, which is BorgWarner’s DualTronic™ six-speed transmission, otherwise known as a DSG (direct shifting gearbox) or AMT (automated manual transmission), which was adopted by Volkswagen and Audi when the VW Golf R32 and the Audi TT 3.2 made their debuts.