Audi TT: Review

We found a very nice review of the Audi TT including a short video from the New York auto show.

Luscious body lines defined the original Audi TT coupe and roadster. Other automakers copied the styling ad nauseam and once the newness wore off, sales cooled.

But Audi has made the TT fresh again. The car will be ground-up new for 2007. Designers stretched, pulled and kneaded the familiar TT shape; the result is a 5.4-inch-longer, 3.1-inch-wider coupe with a lower, more athletic stance.

The 2007 Audi TT is so fabulously fresh that Audi invited fashion designer Doo.Ri Chung to the New York auto show press conference. "I love that my clothes get to share the stage with what really is a design icon," Chung quipped as a series of models strode down the stage-turned-fashion runway.

Fortunately, the TT's beauty isn't just skin-deep. To cut down on curb chub, the 2007 TT has a version of Audi's space frame, this one a blend of 69-percent aluminum, 31-percent steel rather than all aluminum as on the A8. Curb weight drops 150 pounds compared to the '06 TT 3.2; and Audi notes that the frame's steel components are concentrated in the rear of the car to balance the weight distribution.

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Source: Inside Line

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