Audi TT: New coupe a coup for Audi

A review of the Audi TT from New Zealand, where the TT arrives in October 2006.

Audi's new TT coupe arrives in New Zealand in October. First launched in 1998, the TT became a cult car for anyone for whom design is the ultimate expression of the automotive art.

Arguably the greatest change is the car's aluminium space-frame construction, with its body of 69 per cent aluminium and 31 per cent steel. The latter, crucially, is largely placed in the rear floorpan to improve weight distribution, Audi claiming a 58:42 front to rear balance.

All that aluminium also helped cut its weight - this longer, wider and more spacious car is now 60kg lighter than its predecessor.

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Source: The New Zealand Herald

Audi TT: New coupe a coup for Audi

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