A motor vehicle having a drive unit, the power output shaft of which outputs alternately to a first sub-transmission or a second sub-transmission of a dual clutch transmission by way of two separating clutches of a dual clutch. The first sub-transmission has the odd-numbered forward gears and the second sub-transmission has the even-numbered forward gears, and having a transmission control device, which has a driving strategy unit for determining a target gear as a function of input parameters and a shift sequence control unit, with which a gear change from the current gear to the target gear can be controlled.