Audi TT: Taking the TT to the Next Level

Great review and look over Audi's new TT. This journalist has seen and reviewed both the original TT and the latest version -- this year's Audi TT.

Here are a few excerpts:

Indeed, styling is very much a part of the TT story. In fact, the original car's Bauhaus-inspired design was so brilliant, inside and out, that it made you forget that the TT was a sports car built on a Volkswagen Golf platform, which gave it certain inherent limitations in the ride and handling department.....

.....The new TT is longer, wider and slightly taller than the old car, but it remains instantly recognizable and now features a more athletic character with its set-back greenhouse and a new rear spoiler that automatically deploys when the car reaches 120 kilometres an hour. This feature becomes significant when one recalls that the first-generation TT did not have any rear spoiler whatsoever and that cars driven at autobahn speeds allegedly experienced read-end lift, prompting Audi's decision to hastily add a static rear spoiler to TT models.....

.....Visually, it's a looker all right. The cockpit of the new car is not quite as dramatic as that of the original, but it features a flat-bottom steering wheel inspired by the R8 supercar and keeps the signature centre circular air vents, which now number three instead of two. Gone in the redesign are the two separate centre tunnel bars, one of which so annoyingly contacted the driver's right knee, now replaced by a conventional console. As the beltline of the car remains high, you still retain that "cockpit" feel, but you benefit from slightly more room as the car is now wider.....

.....And while these same representatives claim that Audi is merely "looking into" possible high-performance S and RS variants of the new TT, it is pretty much assured that these models are now in the pipeline, so all of you die-hard gear heads with an inkling for the occasional track day might want to wait and see what is coming down the road.

[Source: Driving.ca]

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