Audi TT grabs Top Gear trophy
It's the best coupé says the TG team
Award-winning Audi TT
Jeremy Clarkson and Top Gear editor Michael Harvey presented the award to Audi's head of steering systems, Georg Middelhauve, at a ceremony held last week in London.
According to the magazine’s editorial, the TT deserved to win through because: “it’s a properly entertaining and engaging thing to throw down the road. Just like the original, you’ll remember the new TT. Now not just for the way it looks, but also for the way it goes too.”
Audi UK boss Jeremy Hicks said: “The fact that the TT has already been highly praised in print by the Top Gear team on a number of occasions was heartening enough for us, but to win outright in the category, with endorsement from Jeremy, is real cause for celebration.”
The new TT was officially unveiled in the UK three months ago, its updated skin concealing a superstructure and chassis that have undergone radical changes, according to the company. It offers optimum weight distribution thanks to the hybrid body shell combining 69 per cent aluminium content in the frontal section and 31 per cent steel at the rear, and an advanced suspension with optional magnetic ride, together with Turbo FSI four-cylinder and naturally aspirated V6 petrol engines.
The new Audi TT Coupé 2.0 TFSI is priced at £24,625 OTR, and the TT Coupé 3.2 quattro at £29,285 OTR.
Hit on the nail on the head there...
"69 per cent aluminium content in the frontal section and 31 per cent steel at the rear"
I wonder what the remaining 31% in the front is? Steel perhaps? And the remaining 69% in the rear? So, they optimised the mass distribution by ... making it all the same?
If you add the 31% and 69% thogether that makes 100% as in the whole car. I think they mean that the front most two thirds of the car is Aluminium and the back third is made of steel. Not being funny but i am sure that's right.
I'm sure in a recent(ish) top gear magazine article, they had a coupe test between the 350Z, BMW Z4 coupe and the new TT, the TT didnt win the group test, so how can it win this award?
"69 per cent aluminium content in the frontal section and 31 per cent steel at the rear"
I wonder what the remaining 31% in the front is? Steel perhaps? And the remaining 69% in the rear? So, they optimised the mass distribution by ... making it all the same?
Maybe somebody just thought that non-sense expressed in percentage terms, should add up to 100 ?
greg
Yes, I heard that the 'Head of Car Parking' was unavailable for comment.
I hear 'The head of clutch' was off with deression too so head of steering does seem the obvious choice. I'm sure in a recent(ish) top gear magazine article, they had a coupe test between the 350Z, BMW Z4 coupe and the new TT, the TT didnt win the group test, so how can it win this award?
Perhaps they meant that the base model or the turbo 4pot was the best coupe you could buy (affordable, stylish, reasonably quick) rather than the top of the range V6 which lost to the Z and the Z4 in the group test. Can you buy a cheap 4pot Z or Z4 Coupe? No you can't, taking away some of the competition perhaps.
I do agree with the comment about trying to get first crack at the R8 though...
Ali.
Every test of the new TT I have read makes the point that the FWD 2 litre version is a better drive than the Quattro - in which case you may as well buy a Golf Gti ( or come to that a Skoda ) ....
And considering the A4 diesel (borrowed) on the drive at the moment and its steering prowess, I find it hard to believe that Audi actually have a "head of steering systems" - the car steers like a playstation.
But if Audi want to lend me a RS4 for a month or so I will gladly retract this statement
Very lame of Clarkson for sure to bend over like this for a hairdresser's car!
And the TT is still a hairdresser-wagon IMHO...
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