Only1Z
Well-known member
Depends on how you look at it. The national search on cars.com when I bought my car showed 33 manuals in the entire country. So I don't need a huge crop of people to choose from when I sell my car and I won't have much competition from other sellers. There just aren't many of them and you just need 1 person that wants manual and I'd potentially have 1 of about 3 cars in the entire country available used in a manual. Whereas there will be much more competition with other sellers if you have a DSG car.I would never spend over 26k on a sedan that wasn't a Automatic or DSG. It's a family car not a sports car. & when you do sell it your market is going to be so small, most younger people don't know how to drive a stick. Just my opinion if you plan on keeping it forever and you like to shift then get the 6m, but don't not get the DSG because some writer didn't like it, most will notice no difference from a regular automatic.
This is my first DSG and it's one of the best auto shifting cars I have had. I drive a ton of hills and the DSG doesn't do the annoying shift up, shift down, shift up again.
My vote SEL with DSG!
All I know is that in the past, manual TDI's have held their value EXTREMELY well. I don't think that's breaking news to anyone.