[MetroMPG]

Good analogy about the brakes.... but shift speed isn't where you're going to save fuel. (I know you know that :P)

Unless the DSG type transmission has a hard core hypermiler on the programming staff, I seriously doubt it would be equipped with the type of logic that would let us do the types of things some of us do with a conventional manual tranny.

Bump starting a stopped engine on the fly, for example.