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Posted on Friday, April 16, 2010 by admin in Shopping |

That’s the end of the idea of TT as hairdresser’s car. It might have started life all those years ago as a gorgeous looking but more-than slightly soggy Golf in a spangly shirt. But no more and the gen-2 car has a highly developed largely aluminium bodyshell, and this new RS version has a 340bhp turbo TFSI engine. Three hundred and forty horsepower.

And just to make it even more special, the ponies come from a unique new turbo straight-five engine. Now then, which was the car that made the turbo five famous? The original Audi Quattro. Square arches, WRC, Pike’s Peak, Walter Rohrl. I think we can agree there are few cars more alpha male than that.

So does the TT RS wimp-out on the ur-Quattro heritage? Oh no, this is a solid piece of kit. The engine might be all new but the noise is an uncanny simulacrum of that lovely old Leslie-speaker warble. And it accelerates like it’s on a mission.

It’s not just the 4.6sec 0-62 time that does the business; it’s the full-on turbo boost from deep down in the rev range. There’s no DSG option (it’d lunch that transmission) but the six-speed manual is snicky enough.

The one we tried had the 155mph limiter removed (there’s an option box you can tick) and ran straight to 175 as if it was born to it.

It’s a right little terrier for corners. Just chuck it in and the 4WD sorts things out. OK, so there’s not the delicacy of a Cayman S, you can invest massive trust in it. It never feels nose-heavy. That’s why they went to all the trouble of developing an all-new compact five-pot: turbocharging the six-cylinder would have made something too lardy.

Of course if you want to tickle your follicles, there’s always the roadster version. Remarkably, it feels almost as solid as the coupe, so even that’s a proper sports car now.

There is only one Audi TT RS in the entire United States right now. And here we are, hurling the black coupe down the front straight at Willow Springs Raceway at 132 mph. We’ve been invited out to the sunny California desert on a pristine day to flog the hottest-ever Audi TT back-to-back against its TTS sibling, along with a few stints in the all-new S4 and R8 V10 for good measure.

The TT RS isn’t simply another upgraded model in the automaker’s diversified lineup. The TTS (and the other standard performance models) come from the Audi AG Sport division, while the TT RS was incubated and hatched by Quattro GmbH ? the team who brought us the nefarious R8, RS4 and RS6. And while we’ve seen the TT on our shores with four- and six-cylinder powerplants, the new five-cylinder engine marks a significant departure for the front-engine coupe and convertible (even as it pays homage to the original 1980s-era Audi Sport Quattro).

So what makes the TT RS special and how does it fit into the current TT lineup? More importantly, how does the enthusiast-tuned package work under demanding track conditions? We intend to find out while answering a very important question for Audi: Should it bring the Audi TT RS Thailand to the States?

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