Originally Posted by Coyote
I will agree that the new Audi TT is a very good looking car, but I have to also admit that the previous "squashed VW" looking TTs were some of the ugliest sports cars I've ever seen Really, all they did was smash a VW Beetle a bit to get the older TT styling. Or, so it would have appeared.
Folks used to call the VW Beetle a pregnant roller skate. I used to figure the VW was about 8 to nine months, while the TT was around 4 to 6 months. Never could understand why a man would want to be seen behind the wheel of a old style TT.
Just my opinion, probably not even worth $0.02.
Coyote
Being a previous owner of two TT Quattro's, I naturally like the look of them. I agree with the squashed Beetle look, but I definitely wouldn't call it "the ugliest sports car". Here are my two previous TT's:
I received plenty of comments all the time about how nice the car looked, and none of them were negative.
My biggest complaint about the TT Quattro was the heavy understeer it exhibited when pushed to the limit. If the TT would have had the Torsen AWD system that the A4 had verses the Haldex system, it would have performed better. Since the Torsen system didn't fit in the small frame TT, it was given the FWD based AWD system.
As for reliability.....I didn't have any issues with either of my cars, and I put on 20k miles on each of them before selling. Maybe I got lucky, not sure.
If you were wondering...I sold my last TT convertible because I wanted a "truer" sports car. I was tired of the FWD feel of the TT (the reason I am doing research on a SRT-6 for my next vehicle).
Back to the original topic...The TTRS would probably out handle a SRT-6 on pretty much any road course, and with the TTRS having better straight-line speed as well, the TTRS would be the quicker car (if that is what you were after). Now for $60K+ there are definately better (cheaper) avenues to take. But cool car none the less.