Multitronic verus tiptronic.

[GreenVFR]

Newbie with a dumb question,

Looking at autotrader pictures of A6s Is there a way to tell at a glance whether the gearbox is tiptronic or multitronic? Most of the ads just describe them as "automatic" so I'm not sure which are plain autos / tiptronic and which ones have the multitronic. Was the multitronic an option or was it standard once it was introduced?

For example I know that this shift is the tiptronic:

http://search.autotrader.co.uk/es-uk...geId=842703980

So does that mean that any I see that look like this:

http://search.autotrader.co.uk/es-uk...geId=824483363

Are the multitronic?


And this one is clearly described as "tiptronic" but the shift looks different to either of the other two?

http://search.autotrader.co.uk/es-uk...geId=848150031

Any help appreciated guys.

Dave

[paul b]

If you're looking at a Quatrro car, it will be Tiptronic. Multitronics are only available in FWD Audis.

Hope that helps!

Paul

[martin86]

one thing more- Tiptronic has 5 gears if you switch to manaul gear selection and Multitronic has 7.

[davidfbmw]

i have multitronic and it has six gears

[martin86]

i'm working in company, which is specialised to Audi's and so far i've seen only 7 gears on multitronic. maybe there is difference on older and newer Multitronic boxes.

[davidfbmw]

Hi martin86
i think your right mine is an 05,i think the b7 model went to 7 speed