Test drive Audi TT compartment 1998 - 2006 compartment

Magnetic anomaly

When the first Teteshka was born nearly eight years ago, evil tongues prophesied her as a model for a short -lived future: they say, the first in the range will become the last, because such an original style cannot have further development. The grounds for such forecasts were, if only because the design of the first Audi TT can be considered a textbook example of stylistic completeness. As they say, neither add nor take away. But here is a surprise: second generation Audi TT was born. So, the model still has where to develop. Well, where?
 
The second -generation Audi TT passed the northern loop of Nürburgring 15 seconds faster than its model predecessor. The difference is very significant, progress is evident. The main components of success: a mass reduced by almost 100 kg and lowered by 9 mm center of this mass; increased by one and a half times the hardness of the body for twisting; reduced from 0.34 to 0.30 the coefficient of the frontal resistance; The front track expanded by 44 mm and 45 mm rear; highly modernized suspension (in front - racks Mcpherson, behind - four -wishes) and steering; enlarged brakes; Optimized amusing ... And that is far from all. Do you think it's easy to get ahead of yourself as much as 15 seconds? Who knows Nürburgring, he will appreciate.
Hello, New Year. We tested the Audi TT of the second generation in the Austrian Alps in the midst of summer. But actually in those parts, in a line from Brodsky, everything is designed for the winter. Take at least Salzburg - this is almost Alps, already close. Do you think everything is sharpened under Mozart? In principle, you think correctly, but ... the inspired faces of Wolfgang Amadeich simply do not notice how cones in the forest, due to their ubiquitous redundancy, but you stop dumbfounded, seeing ... Christmas Christmas trees. Which sparkle with lights at shops leading large -scale trade in all kinds of New Year's paraphernalia. Summer! Farms over thirty, asphalt melts, ice cream flows on the fingers. And here - Hello, Opa, New Year. How so?
 
But like this. No need to look for logic where it is not.
From Salzburg, we are going up in the new TT, to the Alps, to the Tall Tauwern area, to the foot of the famous Mount Grossglokner. On the way, we spend the night in the town of Cell-Am-See and we feel that everything is also designed for the winter. Our goal is to swim in Zee theoretically achievable, but practically not very - there are no normal approaches to water within the visibility. There are no air conditioners in the hotel rooms. Everything suggests that the summer here is treated as an annoying off -season between bread ski winters. And the higher the mountains, the more ski and more ski. But, interestingly, the prices for the main energy and the summer are quite winter. High Sizon or Lowe Sizon-it doesn’t matter. Break off, you are in the resort.
 
However, it is good that we are here in the summer. Because in the winter you need to drag a ski belongings with you (otherwise it is not there and there is no need to go), and he and TT are incompatible things. It is better not to try to stuff skiing into this car. And not only skis. I remember that I somehow sat on the sake of photography for the rear seat of the first-generation TT, and at the same time I was shod in convincing winter cateller. Then the photographer pulled me out of the car - with a mother and a leg. The second -generation model, of course, is larger: it is 137 mm longer than the predecessor, 78 mm and higher by 6 mm, but the rear riders should not be seduced. As it was closely, so closely remained (although formally some millimeters were added). The main increase in the increase has gone into the trunk, and there is something to praise: now it contains 290 liters of cargo with the installed rear seats and as much as 700 liters with folded; In advertising Audi publications they write that the trunk of a new TT is designed for two golf bags. And earlier it was 220/490 liter of QUATTRO and 270/540 in NAMATRO - and wrote the same thing. Maybe the bags have become larger, although in fact their number and size are a tenth business, here the keyword is golf.
Notice, not two bags of potatoes, not two mattresses for mother -in -law, but two golf bags. All questions about the positioning of the machine and the contingent of users are immediately removed. Perhaps, to please the contingent, Tatkeshka is positioned as a compartment, although formally it is a hatchback-three-door. On the hatchback, it’s not very patho to go to the golf club (since the hatchback is something ordinary-city), but on the compartment-just right.
 
By the way, about golf clubs. They are found in the foothills of the Alps - a kind of summer exceptions from ski rules. But in our trunk there is not a single golf bag, and we go further or, if you like, above - from alpine meadows to rocks and glaciers. We go along fairly steep serpentines, on which a tightly knocked, sports-inserted TT is exactly what is required. Sportsup for sports.
  
 
The lifting force at high speeds (a very unpleasant thing) is killed here in the bud with a spoiler raised by 120 km/h and re -eliminated if you slow down to 80 km/h/h
The power of magnetism. The second generation car was a success, this is clear. The only claim to her is stylistic. Already everyone who was not too lazy (and not laziness was almost everyone) complained that the design of TT was greatly taken away from the generally accepted, and it is difficult to disagree with this. It itself is very good, but it is impossible to consider it regardless of the first TT. The first is the original car, created, count, from scratch, without orientation to any canons and, as they say on the sidelines of Audi, with hope only for a market rav (which, I must say, it worked out precisely thanks to the uniqueness of the machine). And in the second, the purposeful operation of fashionable modern trends is already felt, and this is fraught with inevitable similar ones, since not only Audi company exploits these trends. Look, for example, at lighting equipment or, say, on the lining line-fashionably, beautiful, stylish, but somewhere something similar has already been ...
 
Well, as for technology, ergonomics, comfort (for the front riders, we will clarify), then everything is at a very high level. The machine, so to speak, is delicious. It is light, almost a centner is lighter than its predecessor (69% of the body masses on aluminum elements) and strong (the hardness of the body for twisting increased by 50%). She has good aerodynamics - the frontal resistance coefficient is reduced from 0.34 to 0.30. In addition, the lifting force that inevitably acts on the rear axle at high speeds (a very unpleasant thing) is killed here in the bud with a spoiler, raised by 120 km/h and re -eliminated, if you slow down to 80 km/h.
 
In a very long list of technical goodies (we will not list, they are normal for any high -class car), it is worth noting the damping system Audi Magnetic Ride. Instead of traditional oil, the so-called magneto-reiological fluid, that is, a special material containing microscopic magnetic particles, into shock absorbers. Which, under the influence of a magnetic field, change orientation in space, instantly changing the viscosity of the liquid, then straining it, then relaxing. Accordingly, it is tougher, then the suspension becomes softer, depending on the specific riding situation. Damn a comfortable thing. By the way, competitors are still nothing - at least at such a high technological level - they do not offer.
 
The machine in the management is simple, light, predictable and understandable. But what I did not have time to understand during the alpine test drive: which motor-transmission option is better. There are two to choose from (and in each two more fence-with mechanics and with S-Tronic) and, in my opinion, both are better. The first-200-horsepower, with turbocharged and direct injection-is good and relatively cheap, but it does not have a quattro. And Audi without Quattro-this is even somehow insulting. The second-250-horsepower, with V6 and with Quattro-is more than good, but expensive. In general, like Zhvanetsky/Kartsev: large, but five, small, but three. So think what to choose.

Text Sergey Sorokin, photo Audi AG

Audi TT
Gasoline 2.0 TFSI
gasoline 3.2V6
 
Engine 1984 3189
Working volume (cubic meter) 1984 3189
Power (L.S. at rpm) 200 at 5100-6000 250 at 6300
Moment (Nm at rpm) 280 at 1800-5000 320 at 2500-3000
Gearbox 6-speed mechanical
(6-speed s-Tronic)
The front drive is full
Length/width/height (mm) 4178/1842/1352
Equipped mass (kg) 1260 (1280) 1410 (1430)
Maximum speed (km/h) 240 250
Acceleration to 100 km/h (c) 6.6 (6.4) 5.9 (5.7)
The fuel consumption is average (l/100 km) 7.7 (7.7) 10.3 (9.4)
Price in Germany from 31,400 from 39 900
In brackets-data for cars with S-Tronic.

 

Source: "Autopilot"