Audi TT

Audi TT - Nice!

Think that was the car of Chizz’s choice awards

Seeing this TT on the road these days, its tiny push-me pull-you symmetrical design comes off a little toy-like. It is an icon, but it’s an icon that has lost its effect as the rest of the Audi lineup has been updated handsomely and moved out of the TT’s shadow.

Adding to this is the hard truth that the first TT, built on the Volkswagen Golf IV chassis, was never really a spectacular driver in sportscar terms. (The best there was came in early 2005, in the not-for-North America lightweight TT Quattro Sport, with its 237-horsepower 1.8T engine. We drove this and it was indeed a spectacle.) It’s always been fun as all get out, like a German Mazda Miata, but not a mature car for gladiators and Amazons.

Now, big-muscle people filled with sexuality and Manifest Destiny on the brain can grab onto the TT, while not elbowing out other sexual persuasions. It’s an Everysex car! Call it a demographic slam dunk.

Our brothers and sisters in Györ, Hungary, carry on with their impeccable workmanship in assembling the TT on its new chassis that is 50-percent more rigid in the torsional sense. For now, powertrains include the hugely satisfying 2.0-liter turbocharged direct-injection in-line four with front-wheel drive and the 3.2-liter 15-degree V-6 with Quattro all-wheel drive. The 2.0 TFSI—an engine we know and love from a host of current VW and Audi models, including the GTI and the A3—delivers a full 206 pound-feet of torque between 1800 and 5000 rpm, and horsepower lingers at 197 between 5100 and 6000 rpm. Meanwhile, the old 3.2-liter V-6 carries on with 236 pound-feet of torque between 2500 and 3000 revs and 246 horsepower at 6300 rpm.