swamp,
First off, congratulations on receiving your new car.
Secondly, thanks for the first in depth report on DCT, it sounds like it's all you were expecting and more. It's interesting that you are finding S3 your preferred manual mode, it's the most aggressive without the jerk/surge and according to what I have been told it's every bit as quick as S5/6 is the actual shift though only proper measuring will be able to prove either way. Regarding the slightly delay between paddle and the actual shift, the DSG in the GTI also has it but I don't know until I sample M-DCT if it's any more the DSG, I will say that I tried the same gearbox in a TT 3.2 and found it to behave slightly quicker, whether there should be a difference is unknown but it was there.
Swamp, could you please reply telling us how you are finding the auto modes, so far your comments are centering on the manual modes. I am interested to see how it performance in stop/start traffic and especially the crawl mode as this wasn't present on the DSG.
Once again congrats.
