Apparently some of you guys can't read, or you just like to take what you think you read and then run with it to make your preferences look better.
Please go back and read the official release documents on the A8 transmission. It was stated that the "faster than PDK" shifts were only during upshifts, under WOT conditions. That's it.
http://www.camaro5.com/forums/showthread.php?t=373898
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In fact, in the 2015 Corvette Stingray, it enables a class-leading 29-mpg EPA highway estimate – a 3.5-percent increase in fuel economy over the previous six-speed automatic – and a quicker 0-60 time of 3.7 seconds, all while delivering wide-open-throttle upshifts quicker than those of the dual-clutch transmission offered in the Porsche 911.
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In fact, a new, Gen II transmission controller analyzes and executes commands 160 times per second, and wide-open throttle upshifts are executed up to eight-hundredths of a second quicker than those of the dual-clutch transmission offered in the Porsche 911.
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So everyone here whining about how the thing doesn't shift lighting fast all the time....just stop it.
The A8 does have a bit of a normal lag under regular, or even just semi aggressive street driving, but when its at good operating type and WOT conditions, she shifts quickly. I don't care how fast some of you guys think you can shift your car manually...Under WOT conditions, the time it takes for me to press a button and the car shift is (if at all) just mere fractions of a second longer than it takes for you to push in the clutch and bang into the next gear... if you are even that good. The difference is so negligible, its not worth arguing.
The A10 is going to be similar, but likely even better than the A8 in WOT shifting, which is just awesome. If the around the town shifting, and downshifting are better also, that's just icing on the cake.