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Originally Posted by Putzo

Yeah, unfortunately. I've been in the "crapping pants while turning onto a major road from a side road with oncoming traffic" situation many times over the past four years. It's because the DCT is an automated manual, rather than an automatic (with lock-up torque converter) that goes the instant you tromp the gas pedal. I find that the Sport and Sport+ modes improve things a bit, but don't completely eliminate the issue. It's for this one reason alone that I want a manual back in whatever next car I get. Some will argue that a human-driven manual will have a similar delay off the line, but I think I'd feel better about it by feeling more in control of said delay.

Of course, once you're going, none can argue with the speed of the DCT upshifts.

If that split second delay makes you crap your pants, you chose the wrong moment to turn onto the road if you ask me....
Try driving a land rover for a week (or even better: a small slow reasonably priced car from the 90's so you feel genuinly unsafe) and get used to the space and time you need to turn onto a big road. That will fix most of your problems. Cause a fast car can make up for a lot of mistakes (and create quite some too...!), but squeezing yourself in front of a lorry when there is just not the space, is not one of them. Just my 2c.

I drive in Normal and Sport btw. 50/50