Thread: Toyota challenges Porsche with Lexus IS F - The Japan Times
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Old 10-05-2007, 01:41 PM
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Originally Posted by suneet View Post
In all fairness... the 8-speed DSG on the IS-F sounds insane.

edit: No longer sure if it's a DSG, in Toyota's press release they call it a "Direct Sport Shift" that shifts within a 10th of a second, but then goes on to say it has a lockup torque converter, meaning it's no different than the standard tiptronic and probably not as performance tuned, but with more gears.
So if it shifts in .1 sec and it has to shift 8 times, doesn't that mean almost a whole sec is lost just to shifting? I can't imagine why it would need so many gears. It not curising at 200 mph.
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