Auto vs MC Shift - how to tell the difference ?

[OddCat]

With GT cars, when looking at pictures of cars advertised, how can you tell if a car is trad ZF Auto or MC Shift robotised manual ? And does that method hold true for each generation ?

And do the auto and MCShift broadly sound the same ?

Thanks

[joinery80]

The mc shift have no gear knob

[OddCat]

joinery80 said:

The mc shift have no gear knob

Maybe with earlier cars but how do we explain this ster one stating MC Shift but with a gear knob ?

https://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/...

https://www.sytner.co.uk/maserati/car-search/10276...

Edited by OddCat on Saturday 17th August 17:11

[EC2]

It’s an auto, for the 2013 model year onwards they call this mc auto shift as opposed to mc shift for the automated single clutch car - nice and confusing and dealers often forget to put in the word auto.

FWIW with the 2017 facelift they stopped the mc shift due to poor sales and the fact that it’s crap (obviously IMHO).

[OddCat]

Ahh. Okay. So the rule with any generation GT is that if it has a gear knob it's always a traditional ZF auto. And there are no MC Shift (robotised manual) cars with a gear knob. Fab - thanks to both responders.