Re: TT Impressions from Europe

[Zsolt Kovacs <zsolt@telusplanet.net>]

I was just talking to a friend in Germany yesterday also. His opinion was
similar. He said the car feels like it has steel bars for suspension it's so
stiff. Being both of us designers we discussed the "Bauhaus" styling and in
our opinion the TT is labeled that mostly because of the purposeful clean
design as oppose to just styling for the looks that many car companies
represent.
just my $0.02.
  Zsolt

Alexander van Gerbig wrote:

> Was talking to my foreign Audi fans, UK and Germany, about the TT.  I
> was very excited to announce to them that it was finally here in the US,
> and to my disbelief they both sneered and snickered(well in terms of
> typing on ICQ).  I asked what the laughing was about and they explained
> this, the TT is sub-par for a sports car.  They were skeptical about the
> quattro label on the trunk, since it has got Haldex, not a true quat
> component, and they commented on it has not that hot.  The guy in
> Germany has test driven one and said nothing short of "eehhh it's ok."
> He commented on an article that put the TT vs. Z3.  Z3 flat out won he
> said.  TT got blown away in most categories.  I was skeptical about all
> this, but the Brit confirmed the TT isn't that great.  A touring car at
> best, no sports car.  Any thoughts on this guys?  Just wanted to know
> what other Audi peoples thought about the TT.  Thanks.
>
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