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Agree with the DCT sentiment here. The auto is great, but it's still quite easy to feel the "slush" when you gun it in manual mode. It's not necessarily the "speed of shift" but it's the grab and impulse of acceleration that really sets them apart - blipping the throttle to rev match.
Did the BMW UDE thing and drove a 640, 328ix and A7 all with the same ZF8. They all felt markedly sluggish compared to my s-tronic, which as I learned here, is not even up to par with what Audi has on the R8 or RS5. GIAC is offering a tune for the B8 S4 dsg which supposedly makes shifts much quicker and removes some of hunting. I've never driven the M-DCT, so can't comment on the comparison.
A DCT is not without fault though, it can sometimes shift awkwardly at low speed, mostly cause it has to guess what your left foot would be doing.
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