[dannyhilton]

Having driven a few PowerShift equipped cars, it’s a very different drive to a conventional automatic, but so is a CVT. What you must remember when driving a car equipped with a DSG or PowerShift transmission is that it’s not an automatic. It behalves differently, and requires different input from the driver than a conventional automatic does to get the same results. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, as the advantages of such a transmission are well documented. The technology is still fairly new, so it’ll continue to evolve and become better with time. Ford has acknowledged the issue, and the fix seems to rectify the majority of issues. Unfortunately low speed jerkiness is common to manuals, so this is an issue the transmission is yet to overcome. Go drive a Golf GTI with a DSG. It can be a real pain under low speed conditions. Whack it in Sport Mode and keep it in first and it’s much better. It’s not jumping to up change / down change every five seconds as you accelerate / decelerate.

Ford know there is a learning curve with PowerShift, look at YouTube, there are numerous videos demonstrating how to get the most from the transmission.