Audi TT: Best coupe according to TopGear

Another award for the Audi TT, and this is an important one. Not because it's very representative, but very influential. Best coupe according to TopGear! Jeremy Clarkson loves it and so do we.

So why have we chosen the new TT as our Coupe of the Year? No, not to have a rose-tinted wander down memory lane to the heady days of the late Nineties. But because this one feels like a bona fide sports car. It really drives.

The old TT was a triumph of form over function. Looked a million dollars (that's about half a million quid in today's money), went like a hopped-up Golf. Which was what it was.

But jump in the new TT and you realise that whereas Audi left the TT's looks to evolve organically, it set about the underpinnings with a big hammer and replaced them with those of a real sports car.

That's not just a turn of phrase, either. Audi has given buyers of the new TT the option of specifying its Magnetic Ride suspension damping system, similar to that used in the Ferrari 599. The technology behind it is ridiculously complicated, but it allows you to thrash the TT from hairpin to S-bend without ever feeling out of your depth.

In fact, it drives even better than it looks. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is worth getting excited about.

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Source: TopGear

Audi TT: Best coupe according to TopGear

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