It is an indisputable fact that Volkswagen is now fully turning to the dual-clutch gearbox. Many joint venture brands and China brands have also started to use the dual-clutch gearbox, which seems to be the general trend. As a global strategic automobile brand that has surpassed Toyota to reach the forefront of the global automobile market, Volkswagen has not only promoted and deployed dual-clutch products in overseas markets in recent years, but also adopted dual-clutch products in Honda, Germany. AT first, Volkswagen also used AT automatic transmission, such as sagitar, especially in the hot-selling stage of Magotan, but later it began to give up AT transmission and switch to powershift, which made Volkswagen fall from Highlander and climb up the door, which became the fuse for the deterioration of relations with Toyota. With the continuous development of domestic automobile market, the annual sales volume of 20 million vehicles has become the new normal of China automobile market. Although China automobile market entered the winter from the beginning of 20 18, especially since the second half of the year, the market showed a downward trend in different degrees, but it is still the market with the highest sales volume in the world.
Toyota is one of the shareholders of Aisin Gearbox. After the deterioration of public relations between Toyota and Volkswagen, the procurement of Aisin gearbox has been restrained, but Volkswagen has no good solution, especially the best-selling Magotan, which has publicly developed automatic gearbox due to the decline in gearbox supply orders. However, the core technologies of AT and CVT transmissions have been patented by Jingsi, so we focus on powershift. After many efforts, we finally developed DSG communication. At the beginning of designing the dual-clutch gearbox, more attention was paid to shifting efficiency rather than durability, especially without considering the actual use environment of consumers in China market. In fact, the dual clutch gearbox performs well on the track, but it is still very good in some markets in Germany and Europe. However, in the domestic market, due to problems such as road congestion and frustration of dual-clutch gearbox, the failure of dual-clutch gearbox broke out in a large area in the domestic market.
Even if the problem of dual-clutch failure persists, Volkswagen will not give up the dual-clutch gearbox, because the core technology patent and Aisin's monopoly in this respect, the cost of the dual-clutch gearbox comes from AT gearbox. Due to the strict market standards and punishment standards in the North American market, Volkswagen has exercised restraint in the North American market. However, in some markets outside North America, such as China and Southeast Asia, the plan of investment and rectification is still adopted.