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2008 Audi TT Coupe
2008 Audi TT Coupe
An Icon Remade
The TT has been recast with a different look and more-powerful engines. Will it captivate as the original did?
With graceful curves and a minimalist interior, the Audi TT created a sensation at its 1998 debut. More importantly, the Volkswagen Golf-based coupe helped reestablish the primacy of great design in automobiles, a movement that still reverberates today.
The TT looked so artful, so inarguably right, that it seemed almost beside the point to criticize its modest power and tepid front-drive handling. Later editions, including a convertible, improved matters with an optional V6 and quattro all-wheel drive. However, the TT was plagued with reliability problems since its inception.
Now comes the TT part two. Longer, wider and more manly, the new coupe will go on sale in late spring 2007 as a 2008 model, followed later by a new convertible. It’s a car that looked and felt at home in the green alpine passes of Austria, where the press launch was and where a person half expects to see Julie Andrews running and singing over the nearest hilltop. Against this snowcapped backdrop and over creamy-smooth, super-swift roads that are any driver’s dream, we sampled every flavor of the new TT coupe.
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