Its a 4 pot engine its never going to sound amazing, but they have done a fairly decent job with the exhaust tuning IMO and its fairly loud in standard form on full throttle. I believe you can get pops and bangs out of the autos.
If you arent fussed either way and are planning on stage 1 tune then yes. It will save you shelling out 1300 quid or so on a new clutch. I didnt really like the auto when I test drove one but after being in an auto courtesy A5 for 2 months I did get use to its slight quirks and actually wouldn't mind one now tbh, as it makes general cruising around completely effortless. Happy in the manual also (after replacing the clutch).
If I knew then what I know now about manual boxes on these cars I'd of definitely gone auto. Coming from an RS3 to this manual is a big disappointment. Stage 1 with clutch and DMF in May with awesome gti. Looking forward to using full throttle again.
Revo Stage 1 here, no it’s not essential. I haven’t got it and a lot of people say for Stage 1 a TCU/DSG map isn’t needed. I’m going Stage 2 in a few weeks and will be adding a Stage 2 DSG map however.
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