Many autos even the dsg I had in the golf seem to change up too early, especilly if you say driving in traffic and then you need to accelerate from 30 to 40. One either has to kick down by pressing hard on the peddle(which is not good for me) of suffer the lagg.
This is why i prefer auto’s with paddles now as it’s so much easier to override the standard programing which i believe is to save emmisions, but actually uses more fuel and is less efficient in certain situations.
I recently bought a 1.4 mhev suzuki vitara szt, it was almost £25k but 0%apr although the newer 1.5 fhev is cheaper as it’s has an ags gearbox, not a full automatic and i was not impressed with that at all.
Must say overall for the money there’s only a couple of things I’d change, but in a few months i have got used to the way it works and for us is very liveable with.
The version i have you can only get on the scheme with a manual gearbox now.