Quote Originally Posted by Moe
I use one as a daily driver round town, its not bad at all. Not as smooth as an auto but far less jerky than the average manual driver. There was a gearbox software update in 2007 that sorted out most of the issues. Its adaptive to your driving style, if you hop into one for a short period it will bounce all over the place until it get used to the weight of your right foot (takes about a week). When it starts its in very slow mode trying to get to 7th as fast as possible which can leave you out of gear mid corner or at inconvenient times. I just put it in fast change or manual shift straight away.

Compared to a e92 M3 with DCT it is a piece of crap, but nowhere near as bad as people make out or Clarkson says.
+1 to all of the above. I find driving the thing in automatic to be head-wrecking. The lower settings change gear too early but are very lazy and the higher ones will give you surprise whiplash. In manual and on a fast-shift setting it's fine.