Friday, July 25, 2014

Audi Leaves CVTs Behind For Dual-Clutch Automatics

34 - 2012 Audi A7 - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin

CVT haters, rejoice: Audi's latest set of Multitronic CVTs will be the automaker's last.

According to The Motor Report, the automaker believes it has done all it can with CVTs, and will instead focus on the S-tronic dual-clutch automatic family of transmissions. Both the S-tronic and traditional automatic offerings will fill the void left behind when the models so equipped with Multitronic are updated or replaced.

However, Audi may also do away with the traditional automatic, as well. Currently, the automaker is hard work on an S-tronic built to handle the torque loads and AWD that are being handled by eight-speed autos at present. No word on when the traditional auto's day may come to pass.



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