TT are coming (at least here in Finland) !!!

["Jouko Haapanen" <joukoh@vtoy.fi>]

I have ordered two (out of the 10 for the whole country for 1998) TT
coupes.  One will be Silver with black leather the other Black with black
leather.  All options including 17" wheels, Xenon-lights, frontal- side-
and head-airbags (????), Audi-Bose with CD changer, etc.  The beauty of
this is that I have not been informed 100% whetehr or not these first cars
that the factory graciosly allows us to have are going to be front-wheel
drive or quattro.  Rumors persist that a full-time four-wheel drive system
is under development (the syncro stuff w/ viscous kinda sucks), but who
knows.  I don't know what the power output will be either, but apparently
around 180hp for TT and 210hp for TTS.  The factory gave us a choice on the
options and the interior cloth/leather colours as well as outside
silver/black/blue.  Don't ask me what kind of blue, that is why I did not
order one of those.

Expected delivery time: August 1998.  Can't wait!!!!   :^)


Jouko Haapanen
Pori, Finland

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> From: Tom Nas <tnas@euronet.nl>
> To: quattro@coimbra.ans.net
> Subject: TT/TTS are coming!
> Date: 4. lokakuuta 1997 19:23
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> For those of you who have not read this month's Autocar magazine (yes, a
> substantial piece of my monthly income goes straight to the newsagents'),
> the TT and TTS are coming in '98. Very little will be changed in relation
> to the concept cars, and they will be available with quattro (actually,
> syncro in drag). The TT will be the first to appear in early '98, and the
> TTS will follow suit in the Autumn. I'm glad they decided to keep the
> distinctive styling. I like the MB SLK, but I _loved_ the prototype. It's
a
> shame they watered it down for the final version.
> 
> Tom
> 
> PS Test-drove two very different cars today: one is the VW Polo 1.6- lots
> o' power in a very small and light car make this a lot of fun. It feels
> reassuringly solid and safe, and handles like a much larger car. The
other
> one was the Volvo V70 2.5 20V- wow! This car really flies! Shame about
the
> crappy Continental tyres, or this would've been a great racer! I managed
to
> confuse the traction control and get the front tyres smoking, and it had
an
> annoying air leak in the driver's door window, but otherwise it was
> impeccable. Loved the heated leather seats, fully automatic a/c with
> separate controls for left and righthand side of the car, the solid feel
> and the 5-cylinder engine noise. This is as far removed from the old 245s
> as you can get!
> 
>  _______________________________________________________________________
>  Tom Nas                                          Zeist, The Netherlands
>  tnas@euronet.nl
> 1988 Audi 80 1.8S, Tizianrot metallic, 213,000km
> 
>                              "" -- Marcel Marceau
> 
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