Audi TTS Review

The TT RS could be the quickest inside the range, however the Audi TTS provides an appeal that is much more subtle. It carries a substantially reworked 2. 0-litre turbo generating 268bhp, mated to Audi's Quattro four-wheel drive system. That will make the TTS good for any sprint to 62mph in 5. 4sec, which you‘ll shave to 5. 2sec in case you order the car with Audi’s optional S Tronic double clutch paddle shift. The roadster version, despite some extra mass and also a shape that is slightly less slippery, will reach 62mph in 5. 6sec. 

All versions are pegged at 155mph. MattPriorRoad test editor. The Audi TTS lacks the hard-edged thrills from the RS, but is much more civilised You can identify a TTS by its prominent, body-coloured front spoiler lip, a metallic grey-finished grille and rear diffuser, Audi’s trademark LED running lights, deeper sills, aluminium capped door mirrors, 18in alloys and also a quartet of exhaust pipes from the surface – inside, it gets alcantara / leather seats, more aluminium finishing and grey-faced instruments. Upon the mechanical front, magnetic variable rate dampers, with two settings, are standard, and packaged with stiffer springs and anti-roll bars. Otherwise, the TTS is largely stock TT, which suggests a lightweight bodyshell of aluminium and steel, the steel concentrated in the rear end inside the quest for additional favourable weight distribution. The conventional 2. 0 TT is itself a significant brisk device, well in a position to spin its front wheels inside the dry in case you turn from the traction control, so it’s also the TTS gets four wheel drive, since it is obviously quicker still. This really is very accessible power too, the strengthened balancer shaft four reaching peak torque at a coffee 2500rpm and staying there all of the method to 5000rpm. 

Such is its enthusiasm that sometimes you need to deploy deft footwork to avoid jerking changes, a problem completely banished in case you go to the S Tronic version. That fat torque spread causes it to be effortlessly simple to surge over the countryside, the all-wheel drive system heightening the Audi’s reassuring aura of stability. However, tight bends inside the wet can trouble it if you’re over-ambitious, with understeer setting in pretty determinedly, if briefly since the ESP soon quells it. That’s a small surprise given the quattro’s Haldex clutch has scope to transmit just the maximum amount of 100 per cent from the available torque to either axle, which it’s quicker to react now it uses an electric rather when compared to a hydraulic pump. But it’s not quick enough if our experience for this tight, sodden bends would be a guide, extra torque reaching the rear wheels only after you’ve gone in briskly, backed off, and re-applied the throttle, the Audi TTS then sitting on its haunches to slingshot, quite impressively, from the corner. There’s shortage of finesse here, and never just the maximum amount of feel as you’d enjoy inside the quite closely priced Cayman either. 

The steering inside the TTS is precise and it is weighting, which varies with speed, is usually well judged, however it doesn’t offer the crisp feedback you’ll enjoy coming from the Porsche. The Audi TTS ride is firmer than you’ll experience inside the standard car, and firmer still in case you prod the game button upon the centre console, which stiffens the magnetic dampers towards the point the car bobs and jerks uncomfortably on motorways. Firm ride apart the Audi TTS is really a civilised thing, the pleasure of sitting in which top quality, satisfyingly well-crafted cabin underscored by refinement that persists at speeds well into three figures. Also mighty impressive is that the mixture of performance and fuel consumption delivered by this engine. True, It‘s the benefit of less weight to push around, however the mixture of a 5. 5sec 0-62mph time and also a combined consumption figure of 29. 4 mpg (and CO2 emissions of 191g / km ) is a genuine achievement. The engine is pretty civilised too, however you won’t be hearing particularly tuneful sounds from it since it sounds rather flat despite those quad exhausts. If you’re after the very best driving experience during this class, you will want to direct your hard earned money Porsche’s way, both the Cayman and also the Boxster outpointing the TTS Coupe and Roadster for this score. If dynamics are less of the priority, probably the TTS makes a good car to endure, its security, general agility, refinement and build quality all strong draws. If Audi could apply more money from the dynamic polish that will make the R8 this type of fine device this TT could be serious challenger to Porsche’s position. But despite these shortfalls, There‘ll be lots of buyers who’ll see it a challenge to resist the foremost potent TT yet made.