Looking to buy an audi a4, manual or automatic?

I am going to buy an audi a4 2.0T quattro in the near future and I was wondering what the best option would be for shifting. Should I go with stick shift or with the automatic. The automatic has "manual" shifting but I dont know how it works. Can someone please help me out?Looking to buy an audi a4, manual or automatic?First off - need some clarification:

New or Used A4?



I have to assume new.



Secondly - Can you drive a stick shift, or would you be learning?



If you've never driven a stick... get the automatic.

If you've never owned a stick shift, but can drive one - maybe - but you'd probably be happier with the automatic.



If you've owned stick shifts, then you know what you're getting into.

Get the stick. Audi makes an excellent transmission, a joy to drive.



If you don't know how to drive stick, or have never owned one, but want to learn - I'd still recommend the automatic - but get the tiptronic automatic - and not the CVT automatic.



Sum it up like this:

The CVT is the standard transmission. It's just ok. It is efficient but if you want to shift your own gears, get the tiptronic. The tiptronic has actual gears, is designed to be "shifted", and is a transmission that anyone can drive (so you don't have to worry if you loan the car to a friend, wife, child...etc).



The CVT has no gears. It works kinda like a bicycle chain on an 18 speed bike. There is a steel drive belt between two sets of cone shaped pulley's (kind a like the chain connecting the peddles (engine side) to the rear wheel (drive wheels). As you start out and accelerate, the chain moves from small sprockets at the peddles and large sprockets in the rear gear cluster to large sprockets at the peddles to small sprockets in the rear gear cluster. That's the same idea as a CVT. Instead of gears, the drive belt rides on the conical "gears" - pulley's.



Long of short of it is - CVT's, when in "manual shift" mode only "pretend" to have gears. The pulley's go to pre-programmed positions for each "gear". It's lame, it feels lame, and if you like shifting your own every once in a while - this transmission will annoy you.



Pony up for the tiptronic. It's an automatic transmission, that has a manual shift mode. This transmission has actual GEARS. It shifts quicker than the CVT - and probably quicker than most average people who drive stick shifts.



Plus, it has the added advantage of being an automatic - for when you get stuck in traffic, your wife/kid/girlfriend/random friend etc... want's to borrow the car or split the driving duties on long trips.



Plus - if you decide to sell the car, the tiptronic will appeal to a much wider variety of buyers (should you decide to sell it yourself).



Now, if you're buying a used A4 -

Unless you LOVE stick shifts and MUST have one (which, since you put this question up - is not you) get the automatic.

It's much harder to "beat up" an automatic transmission.



Enjoy



If you want to learn more about CVT's

http://auto.howstuffworks.com/cvt.htmLooking to buy an audi a4, manual or automatic?I know everything there is to KNOW about Audis. And if you want the A4, I would personally go with the Automatic. I am a big fan of manual but for the 2.0T, automatic is the good choice.



If you were looking for the S4, I would say manual but the A4 is a bit more luxorious. So you wouldnt want the luxury car to get ruined by putting it in manual.Looking to buy an audi a4, manual or automatic?manual. dare to be different.



plus autos are slow as f***

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