All Audi TT reviews

"Some day all gearboxes will be made this way"

Audi's TT Roadster has always been one of the better coupe-to-droptop conversions. All too often, this transformation results in badly compromised cars that handle poorly and inflict a number of sacrifices on their owners. The TT is different and loses little in terms of driving enjoyment to its hard top sibling. With the revolutionary DSG transmission available at a £1,400 addition to the £31,210 asking price and a powerful 3.2-litre V6 en...

"Some day all gearboxes will be made this way"

Think back to the last time a car manufacturer introduced a groundbreaking innovation that really did catch everyone else on the hop. It's probably fair to say that it was Audi who saw the potential of the four-wheel drive sports car way back at the turn of the Eighties. Just as this development changed the way we viewed performance cars today, another innovation to come out of Ingolstadt may well leave an equally significant impression. It...

''As a Coupe or Roadster, the TT is a design that crystallises opinion...''

Two smash hits in a row with concept cars is a rare achievement, but that's just what Audi achieved with the TT, first in coupe guise and here as a roadster to boot.. Would-be buyers clamoured to be first in the queue when the stunning TT Coupe was revealed at the 1995 Frankfurt Motor Show. Soon after, the Roadster version created just as much of a sensation when its covers came off in Tokyo.

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"So many cars wear a Sport badge just to titillate the marketing department. This isn't one of them"

It's difficult to finger quite when the Audi TT fell off the front page. Back in the late nineties, it was the car to be seen in. No press car I've ever had possessed quite the same capacity to reduce bystanders to slack jawed stupefaction as the first TT to hit these shores. As time has gone by, the TT's position as the premier coupe pick has gradually been eroded by newer, more powerfu...

"Despite sharing its underpinnings with a whole host of other vehicles, the TT is still a car that feels unique"

There aren't too many coupes that still look box fresh more than six years after they were first introduced but Audi's TT can comfortably carry that description. When critiquing the cabins of other coupes, it's still valid to say that when it comes to interior design flair that they're 'no Audi TT'. This speaks volumes of how far ahead of the curve Audi's design was and it's ...

''You have to respect Audi for having the courage to do something different...''

Designing a class-leading modern car is a serious business these days. It just isn't done anymore by a small group of enthusiasts sitting around listening to rock records and sketching on bits of paper. Or is it?

Audi would have you believe so. Their TT sportscar was apparently created by a group of fourteen designers sitting around listening to Jimi Hendrix records. The result was so well received by...

"TT customers want a car that drives as well as it looks. At which point you may expect the TT 163 Roadster's case to fall a little flat. Not a bit of it"

One suspects Audi knew just how popular the TT Roadster would prove when they initially introduced the car to the UK with a choice of two hugely unappealing colours. Despite the choice of grey or green, customers queued round the block to get their hands on the car. In the intervening years, the TT Roadster's popularity hasn't waned '...