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Done a quick check on the DirectGov site but can't see the answer... so, does anyone know if you have a licence to drive automatics only (catagory B Auto on the licence) are you allowed to drive a car thats fitted with a DSG 'box?
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My totally uninformed opinion would be that if the car has two pedals one can drive it, if it has three pedals one can't.
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A DSG is a form of automatic gearbox. It functions differently to a torque converter or CVT box but it is still automatic. And as SpamCan61 says, has only two pedals.
The fact you can take manual control of a DSG is no different to some proper automatics.
There are also some performance cars (like Ferrari's and Maserati's) with robotised manual gearboxes which function (poorly) as automatics.
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DVD previously answered this question when I asked something similar.
www.honestjohn.co.uk/forum/post/index.htm?t=19678
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DVD previously answered this question when I asked something similar. www.honestjohn.co.uk/forum/post/index.htm?t=19678
...although from reading the thread it looks like his initial answer was wrong.
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a few years back we bought a fiat seicento citymatic for my wife - this had no clutch pedal but did have a "gear lever" laid out like a normal manual.
Checked with various agencies and this was also regarded as something she could drive on an auto licence.
Not a bad car, but a rubbish gearbox/ clutch mechanism. Broke every 13 months and cost a lot to put right. Was traded in for a kia picanto (in fact we picked it up from being repaired and drove it straight to the car dealer to be traded in!)
I have since heard rumours that fiat offered very generous trade-in allowances on the citymatic to get it off the road.
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