Audi TT Mk1 Roadster - a photo on Flickriver

            1990's cars ended up all being very 'samey' - smooth, bland and generic.

Enter 1998 and the show-car-turned-road-car Audi TT. Some said that the styling was 'Bauhausian' - simple function-follows-form. Others said that it looked like a squashed VW Beetle.

The car's styling invoked streamlined record holders from Auto Unions pre-WWII past. What really happened was that a Designer's doodle made it all the way through the committee process and into being a real car. The design language applied to the TT allowed a broader scope of the Audi design language, and was developed to a mid-engined format in the Audi R8 road car several years later.

The TT was Golf-based, but that did not stop it being applauded from a styling and functional performance perspective. The TT shared the underpinnings with the Audi A3 also. The two models deplying east-west engines for the first time since the Audi 50 of the early 1970s which was test case for the format and a prelude to the VW Polo with which it shared its platform.

Audi was even able to deploy 'quattro' on the TT, though in truth it wasn't the same as the real thing, deploying instead a front-wheel-drive transmission with a hang-on Haldex AWD clutched system to deploy torque to the rear axle upon front wheel slip. In practice, the weight distribution was improved relative to 'normal' Audis, which improved the handling - not that the problems inherent in Audis saloons was ever admitted to.

The first gen Audi TT also spawned a two-seat convertible, debuting after the coupe. In 2003 the car received the first of the DSG dual-clutch transmission. 

Most Audi TTs deployed VW group inline four-cylinder engines in five-valve-per-cylinder, turbocharged form, but top spec cars received the VW group VR6 (narrow-angle V6) engine, at 3.2 litres capacity producing 250 PS (184 kW).

In 2006 the first generation car was replaced by the second generation model on utilising the VW PQ35 platform.

Taken on: May 14, 2016

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