I caught a glimpse of this particular screaming Solar Orange TTS out in the canyons of Malibu a couple of months back and immediately made the request to get my mitts on her. The S-Line body kit , fat 19 inch alloys and an inch or so of drop combined with the aforementioned arrest-me orange paint really make for the ultimate TT in the looks department. It’s backed up by bespoke engine internals in the VW/Audi corporate do-it-all 2 liter four pumped up with more boost from a new turbo, a free flowing throaty exhaust, and an ECU remap. Tweaked and switcheable sport suspension mated to an S-Tronic double-clutch automanual round out the package. A premium package, navigation and silky (Audi’s term not mine) nappa leather bump the $45.5k base price into the low 50s—seemingly big money for an AWD GTI in drag. But a couple of commutes and a school run already are making me think this, at least for the US, Uber TT could be worth the scratch. Look for further thoughts when the week is out.
Posted By: Steve Levy | 13 Comments »
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I had a chance to take the TTS out for a spin this weekend…
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The car was SO much fun and the engine sounded fantastic.
Dude: A5 Vs TTS?
A5 any day.
The TTS basically proclaims to the whole world your preference of interior design to badass performance.
It’s fine, but personally, I’m not big on $100 jeans.
Fine if we ever race up the coast… I will take the TTS and you take the A5.
You will be more comfortable but I will already be on my massage in Seattle by the time you make it through Oregon.
Ha!
If we’re talking $45-50k cars and driving up the coast, I’ll take a GT500.
a TTS would outhandle a GT500 in the twisties….quite easily actually.
I contend the GT500 would still be faster at the hands of a skilled driver.
Either way, the GT500 would be a lot more fun.
Power oversteer > AWD frontend plow.
Also: exhaust notes matter to me.
erm…..the TTS vs A5?
let’s see. the A5 is a slow, fat-as-8-pigs, gorgeous looking car which has basically no performance at all.
the TTS is an uglier-than-the-original-TT, reasonably lightweight, well-powered machine which will basically smack the A5 upside its own head when it comes to performance.
TTS > A5.
I haven’t been behind the tiller of this sucker, but I’ve got to say $50k can buy a lotta cylinders, er, car these days.
I don’t think I get it
The big question is Solar Orange TTS or Grabber Blue GT500
You know my answer to that question…
GRABBER BLUE
The TTS is likely a great car in its own right, and I loves me some orange cars.
But that blue on a 540hp GT500 is like apple pie mixed with sex.
About as American and fun as you can get at the same time.
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