Audi TT inspired by Jimi Hendrix shocker!!

[davidd]

I have nothing against TT's however I do take umbrage that the Audi marketing team can compare the TT to Mr Hendrix.
He threw away the mold, he reinvented guitar playing, he turned it up to 11 and set fire to it!
I have no doubt that the TT is a very good car but ground breaking? Awe inspiring? Strung out on mind altering drugs? Turned up to 11? I think not.

Jimi Hendrix no, Richard Clayderman? Maybe.

David

[CarZee]

[johno]

Saw this last night. Thought the same !!

Pscychodelic background aswell, really !!!

[richb]

Also saw it and it made me dig out my Hendrix CD to play in the car, didn't inspire me to get an Audi though!

[Steve Harrison]

Don't get me wrong, I'm a huge fan of Hendrix, but do Audi really want to push the line that their car was inspired by a man who was prone to setting fire to things, had a voracious appetite for strange chemicals, was widely known for being difficult, tempremental and unpredictable and finally expired at a tragically young age having drowned in his own emissions?

[DIGGA]

Absolute pile of poo isn't it? (The ad, not the TT).

The TT, good car as it may be, is hardly a wild, and emotionally charged piece of machinery, and is more Armani suit, than grungy psychadelic garb.

I always feel a tad uncomfortable when a deceased musician (or one of their tunes) is hijacked by the ad men.

[plotloss]

Having met the fella that designed the Audi TT I personally can believe the advert, and its connotations 100%!!

Matt.

[apache]

so he used mind altering drugs to design the TT then.....explains a lot

[beano1197]

I presume that Audi mean it will self destruct in about a third of the normal lifespan of one of their cars...........

Great music and a good product - just don't go together any more than the British Airways rip off of Delibes music or any of countless other pairings.......

[yertis]

Slightly off-thread but I sat in a TT for the first time the other day and found it incredibly claustrophobic (obviously this was the coupe version). Visibility seemed quite poor. What are they like in everyday driving? (not that I'd ever buy one, but I'm curious)

[trefor]

I'm 6'4" and I fit just fine (lower the seat) - view is fine too, if you go for a black interior it is a bit dark in there though, our TT is mainly grey. Definitely nowhere near as pillar-box viewish as a Cerbera.

Rear 3/4 view is cr4p though, like many new 'stylish' cars.

T/.

[Thom]

quote:
Having met the fella that designed the Audi TT I personally can believe the advert, and its connotations 100%!!

Matt.

It doesn't even have the excuse of having been designed by a computer...

[mattjbatch]

quote:
Slightly off-thread but I sat in a TT for the first time the other day and found it incredibly claustrophobic (obviously this was the coupe version). Visibility seemed quite poor. What are they like in everyday driving? (not that I'd ever buy one, but I'm curious)

I'm 6'1" and its fine. Loads of room. Didn't even have the seat all the way back. Didn't drive it for very long (six times round Oulton Park) but it seemed really comfortable.

[Roadrunner]

Ar$e

[rob.ellis]

quote:
.... prone to setting fire to things, had a voracious appetite for strange chemicals, was widely known for being difficult, tempremental and unpredictable and finally expired at a tragically young age having drowned in his own emissions?

now.. can we think of a make of car that this DOES sound like...???

Something begining with T? or even.. something beginning with L..?!

Ducking for cover..