How is it that...

[berg]

the DSG box in the Golf makes it quicker off the mark than the manual, but the manual Octavia Vrs is quicker than the DSG? How can those manual shifts be made quicker than the DSG in the Skoda unless they deliberately changed the gear ratios?

[bacillus]

Misprint??

[berg]

Misprint??

no, i dont think so read it in evo, autocar and i think the official skoda blurb itself 

[Hedge]

Maybe the manual hits 62 in second but the DSG doesn't.

[sub39h]

Maybe the manual hits 62 in second but the DSG doesn't.

that wouldn't explain a difference between the Golf and the Octavia unless the gear ratios had been changed (unlikely)

i'm still inclined to think it's a misprint in the Octavia blurb that has been copied into Evo?

[Hedge]

My thinking was that maybe the manual engine has the rev limiter raised but on the DSG cars it's controlled by the gearbox which is normally around 6300 rpm stock.

[berg]

Hedge's explanation seems more likely than a misprint as sure I have read it everywhere I have read up on the Octavia - Parkers too I think

[Scottymon]

Let's consider that most if not all documented times have been taken directly from Skoda... if the misprint lies there, then all duplications will also contain the original error; unless they time them independently.

I do however agree that Hedges point is extremely valid, and is something that Berg touched on in his original post - it's simply that the DSG doesn't hit the specified MPH in 2nd gear.

A Pepsi challenge is in order.