Automatic gearboxes. love them or hate them but why?

[Tom Nas]

"Pantelis Giamarellos" <pantg at otenet.gr> wrote:

>If you ask me I also prefer a modern automatic (or similar) system from a
>manual. YES even for the RS2 (not to mention that I prefer the converted to
>automatic Discovery turbodiesel over the other one that is still manual)

Depends on your perspective, I guess. I do most of my driving in heavy
traffic, my daily 34 km commute takes close to two hours. I'm seriously
considering moving to an automatic, but small automatics are impossible to
resell here and big automatics are too thirsty.

Tom

PS Yes Pantelis, I'm a big fan of the Multitronic. Make mine an A6 Avant 2.5TDI.