Test drive Audi TT compartment 1998 - 2006 compartment

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Night, street, lantern, another lantern, and yet ... Together with other lights of the night city, they are reflected in the red varnish sides of the old TT, swim back. The end of summer, the air is still warm, empty roads - the time to burn the rubber.
 
Audi TT The creators endowed the unfading design. Question to backfill: when did the car first showed? It seems as if it passed from the strength of three or four years. Whatever the way, the debut took place back in 1998! A lot of gasoline has been burned since then, there have been a problem with aerodynamics behind, the car finally tried on a new powerful engine and an excellent gearbox. The strokes of the last restyling did not change her appearance at all. In this form, she appeared before us a wonderful summer evening, on the verge of autumn. We say goodbye to the season, and at the same time with the model itself - very soon, next year the first TT will be replaced by the second. Nowadays, it is not customary to produce the car for more than 6-8 years, no matter how relevant it looks and no matter how good it rode. It is a pity, because in this form TT is a very self -sufficient, finished car that is completely not lost among modern competitors.
 
But when you get behind the wheel, you immediately remember that this compartment was designed in the nineties of the last century. The salon is kind, but, no matter how blasphemous it sounds in relation to one of the top models Audi, is clearly outdated. The main reproaches addressed to the style concept are flat and too many single -phase black plastic. Although the widespread polished metal, round ventilation nozzles, a funny folding tape recorder cover with TT letters and convenient suede-walled sports seats, of course, revive the picture. But the orange plastic arrows of the tachometer and speedometer look somewhat depressing. There is nothing superfluous inside - why is a sports -oriented model overweight?
 
The windows resemble loopholes, a low roof presses on the subconscious. The key to the castle, turn, and the bass exhaust TT gives to know that with a powerful 3.2-liter six and instant gearbox about two clutches, it is no longer a ladies' vehicle, but a completely combat-ready city projectile. And so we glide through the streets of the city among garlands of multi -colored lights.
 
The size of the TT allows you to do a lot. Not only to park on tiny heels, but also to squeeze into very narrow cracks in the stream, so that later, by a steering petal, having pulled a low gear and hitting the accelerator, beautifully take off into the distance, away from a sleepy car herd. To the accompaniment of large round pipes of the exhaust system, the sound of which pleasantly struck with its incorrectness.
 
Many easily react to such a red rag, but few are able to withstand this yoke car in the city stream. Do not look at the dynamics of acceleration to the departure - 6.4 seconds do not reveal the character of the machine in full, although they are a good indicator. The essence of TT 3.2 DSG is known in motion. The car accelerates perfectly from medium speeds, a powerful engine gets along well with DSG (which we do not get tired of singing praises), and each trip can turn into overcoming the tense urban dopa. There would be a desire.
 
And if there is no desire? If there is no gasoline in the blood? Will the indulgence of TT be shown, will it be a cord, will it take to the place with minimal shocks and inconvenience? Of course, he will do everything, and in the best possible way. Because the soft work of the magnificent superca -firewall in civilian regimes can simply not be noticed. Because the suspension is the comfort itself. Because the power and elasticity of the motor is enough for a calm movement in the 3500 revolutions mode. True, it will be necessary to get used to a small clearance. In the trunk, by the way, you can throw a couple of large bags. But it is better not to leave anyone back - a natural vanity of bed.
 
But we are not interested in melancholy modes of movement! Having escaped to the expanse of the suburban highway, I immediately give a stronger on the accelerator pedal, and the checkpoint immediately begins to methodically click the steps. And what do we have with aerodynamics now? Now TT is securely glued to the roadway thanks to elegant anti -wing. However, will the fixed aerodynamics steal vigor of acceleration at high speeds and the cherished kilometers of the maximum speed?
 
180 km/h remained somewhere behind, now 220, we rush further and: we do not rest against the limiter at 250. The result - 270 km/h (along the speedometer) and good stability of the movement in a straight line. It's time to extinguish speed. I do this without ceremony. Slow down intensive, pedal information content is good, but small steering is necessary. What to do, wide low -profile rubber requires that. I am not in a hurry to go back, with a cruising speed of 150-170 km/h. No tension. A small compartment goes like a small diesel locomotive along the rails - confidently, without trajectory screening.
 
The sea of \u200b\u200blights meets us again. TT clearly likes in the city, and the city clearly likes TT. There are few people who are indifferent - people look back, although they saw such a car a hundred times a hundred times. And it is unlikely that it would occur to anyone to call her outdated. However, marketers always calculate the situation a few moves ahead, and they have long decided: in the morning I return the car. I'm a little sad. I throw my last look at the compartment and see sadness in the widely placed TT eyes. Do not be upset, tt, with such an appearance, non -being does not threaten you.
 
The cost of Audi TT:
Audi TT can be bought with approximately $ 53,500. So much is asked for a front -wheel drive modification with a 1.8 liter turbo engine with a capacity of 180 hp. and five -speed Ehannyics. A full-wheel drive version with the same engine and a 6-speed manual transmission is estimated at about $ 58,500. A more powerful 225-horsepower QUATTRO modification will pull $ 62,000 already, and for 3.2 l a version with a DSG box will have to pay almost $ 70,000
 
 
 

Source: Magazine Motor