yeah, I've got a diesel but with a 6-speed DSG box.
So I can do that. but 1st gear is such a low ratio on the DSG that it's impossible to pull off even with no throttle, it's simply set to dump all the engine's torque on the road from almost stationary. Awful design flaw, and manual override doesn't allow anything other than 1st while stationary.

It also overrides upshifts just before the rev limiter, which makes it awful in proper sports cars too, because you frequently shift manually just as the override kicks in, and go up 2 gears at once.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 11:01, 2 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

Yeah! blah blah blah
But what colour is your car?
( girlinthehole, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 11:03, Reply)

Erm, sort of grey?

( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 11:07, Reply)

Now that's interesting!

( girlinthehole, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 11:09, Reply)

My last one was blue. With beige leather.
and then before that it was red with grey leather, then silver with red leather, then black with black leather, and then green with orange leather.

Is that better?
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 11:15, Reply)

Infinitely.
But green with orange leather : /
( girlinthehole, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 11:24, Reply)

it's not really "orange"
It was an alfa romeo ex-demonstrater.

This colour
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 11:39, Reply)

that sounds like a pain in the arse
I don't want my gearbox interferring. What sort of car is it?
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 11:05, Reply)

skoda octavia.
but it's any VAG car now.

Or Volkswagen Audi Group for Monty. Who I know cares deeply, really, but is just afraid to show it.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 11:06, Reply)

how irritating
God bless my shitty old Seat Toledo and its old VAG innards and all who sail in her.

That said, its being MOT'd today. If it fails I'm going to kick it to pieces.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 11:10, Reply)

I'm sorry but am I the only person
that is amused by 'old VAG innards'?
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 11:13, Reply)

That would explain why you're going out with her
*runs*
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 11:14, Reply)

I was amused by it too
which is why I wrote it
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 11:17, Reply)

I was beginning to think everyone but me had suddenly grown up.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 11:29, Reply)