Nah, it is weight and packaging.  The F12 is a massive car so nobody cares.  There's a reason dual clutches don't exist in Formula 1, simple.  The first F1 team to put in a DSG will lose every single race.  They wanted to save the extra 100lbs as the LFA was already pushing it for a high strung, high power, low torque motor.  Yes, they wanted the more abrupt feel too because that's exactly how F1 sequentials feel which matches the F1 tuned V10 experience in the LFA.  Motortrend was talking out of their arse which is not new.  Toyota waited 10 years to redo the chassis and could have put a DSG in there at any point.  If they cared about timelines they would have released the LFA when they were still in F1 for marketing benefit. 

Btw, the real reason they took so long in the R8 was not power handling of the DSG but packaging concerns.  What was out at the times couldn't be made to fit.  I'm sure it's the same for the Aventador if you see how the suspension is arranged, it's an inboard push-rod 'style' system like a real race car.  That will will decrease the available space for a transverse mounted DSG.  You can see they already offset the motor (to the less ideal side) due to packaging issues they couldn't escape.  Plus nothing says Lamborghini like a violent, abrupt upshift.  Even Ferrari didn't want DSGs originally because they said they were too smooth and heavy, better suited for luxury cars like Maserati.  The real reason Ferrari uses DSGs is because the number of clients wanting manuals went over the fiscal cliff.  Then people complained about SMGs at low speed.  DSGs make it so any fool w/ money can drive a Ferrari. 

I do like DSGs btw, so I'm not opposed to them at all and I do subscribe to Motor Trend, among others.

Here's a group of photographs loosely related to cars on the Boston Globe's website.  There are some pretty cool images- 1, 2, 16, 17, 18

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2012/12/the_automobile.html

I can just imagine the conversations between South Korea and Rolls (picture 11)

"yes, we need a bar in the back of the convertible limo for people to hang on to"

"also a boom mic stand pointed at their crotch"

Good on Edmunds, they've definitely gotten better as of late. I absolutely do not understand the obsession at Lincoln and Cadillac with capacitive touch controls. Just because it works on your Galaxy S doesn't mean it works in a car! Give me buttons or give me death!

Agreed. Lincoln is a complete mess, they still don't know what kind of car company they want to be. They aren't even sure yet whether the name "Lincoln" is salvageable or whether it's been damaged beyond repair ala Oldsmobile. At least this MKZ looks different than the Ford (too bad it looks worse). The last one was akin to what Infiniti used to do with the I35, it was just a Maxima GLE with a deluxe package and a stuffy grille. Most of the sheet metal on the old Fusion and MKZ was identical.

The fact that Lincoln sent the car with ringer tires is pathetic on two levels. One that they thought they could get away with it and nobody would notice a Lincoln running track numbers with a 911, and two, the fact that they thought Lincoln buyers might care about things like slalom numbers. It just further proves that Lincoln has no clue who their customers are. Do they buy BMW or Lexus?

It also doesn't help that the car isn't any more luxurious than the new Avalon and yet it costs insane money for a company with less badge appeal than Volvo. The used buyers that come in at two years when the car is worth $30K will be paying much closer to what it should've cost originally.

Unicorn tires used to be commonplace, about 10 years ago people really caught on and started making a stink so the practice started to die out. 

Yes, the new MKZ is quite different.  Almost other-worldly.