My wife has a Golf GTI with the DSG box, albeit in a 2017 car so probably not in budget, but earlier cars will be similar.
My understanding is that the DSG's in the lower powered cars are the ones with the issues and the heavier duty one in the more powerful cars (GTI / R) are generally fine.
It's a quite astonishing gearbox when you have 200+hp. Compared with the lazy box in the Volvo (or even the much faster to react Merc I had last) it is in a different league.
Always in the right gear and if you step on it the changes are so fast and seamless. It would be really worth trying one out if you have never tried one before, and of course this will be the same in the other VAG family cars like the Octavia vRS - another great car and far more practical / spacious than the Golf.
We had an Eos before with the 200hp motor and a manual gearbox, and that was a great car, and you could get a DSG version of that with either the 2.0 / 200hp petrol or the heavier V6 if you fancied something completely different.
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