Fleet Maintenance Product Guide

DualTronic™ transmission technology from BorgWarner.

DualTronic™ transmission technology succeeds in combining the advantages of both systems. This new technology from the global automotive supplier BorgWarner is the world's first wet-clutch and control-system technology for automated transmissions.The new transmission concept has its origins in motor sport. Back in the 1970s, it was Porsche who developed the first dual-clutch gearbox for its Group C Porsche 962. The advanced technology finally made its debut in series production develop-ment in 2003 in the VW Golf R32 DSG (direct-shift gearbox) and the Audi TT 3.2. Two wet clutches, each with two input and output shafts and specially developed mechatronics for hydraulic and electronic transmission control, are the key compo-nents of this new transmission generation, which BorgWarner developed in collabora-tion with Volkswagen.