New Audi TT S review - genuine sports car or competent coupe?

Is the new Audi TT S more of an engaging, exciting proposition than its predecessor? Matt Prior gets behind the wheel to find out.

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[TomRopez]

Mandatory comments from your generic auto journo:

1.) little to no steering feel
2.) no feedback
3.) never happy with any type of damping

Its easy buy a giant rabbit pop it in your lap and get a really nice feel its like stroking heaven.

No feeback just speak louder. I find shouting into the steering wheel works best

That told me nothing about the car and virtually no interior shots. I dont care what you like doing just let me see the car in action. Also fucking smile every now and then

[Worldsupercars]

Autocar oh, Autocar... How's that even possible that you can't be able to properly mount a camera?

[bellamoonnature]

IT'S ABSOLUTELY A W E S O M E !!!!
Took delivery last week.... Love my TTS!

[peterlewis]

A friend has recently purchased a new Vagas Yellow TTS.
I drive an A1 Sport TDI, which has a nice interior, but as to be expected, the TTS has an interior quality to die for.
The Vegas Yellow and optional 20in rims, look simply amazing.

[julienjjj]

0:30 It cannot send 100% of the power to the rear under it's own will. The front wheels will keep spinning no matter what, because the haldex unit is coupled to the front axle.

When in full lock the haldex operate like if there was a locked center diffrential; the car will not have a RWD behavior

The only case where you would have 100% of the power applied to the ground at the rear is if you put the front wheels on rollers.

[hf]

I would have fun with a pair of TT's.... ;)

[TheEryk]

Cool that AUDI makes even more neutral handling cars, even on MQB platform. Amazing car, very sporty and modern interior and Sexy exterior.

[blackflagpirate]

Beautiful car! Quality and performance all rolled in to one.Bought the TTs mk2 DSG.Just Had a REVO stage one it’s now pushing 322.3BHP 438NM 320FTbls of Torque.240KW of Power.Great review.🏁🏎💨

[MrLalasd]

They should offer a RWD only version. Less weight + better steering feel. Also cheaper :).

[JohnInSale]

Needs some Driving / Front Fog Lamps for those of us that use it outside the city !!!
Hope the Diesel S-Tronic version offers them !!!

[michelecalo]

Where is that road at 1:23 ?? My god looks wonderful!

[iantownsend]

Never really been a tt fan interior looks nice but for me that's it

[danielgaskell]

As a 2012 Audi TT Quattro owner, the only thing I don't like about the 3rd generation is the Audi 4 ring badge on the bonnet; makes for a more difficult wax job AND Audi should be supplying a factory-installed OIL CATCH CAN! The rest of the MkIII is amazing as is the Mk II!

[americancheese]

I almost fell asleep before the end of the video, all i heard was golf r golf r, who the f cares about the golf r?

[blackflagpirate]

The new TTS is quicker 0-60mph than the Gulf R.I own the MK2 TTS.Put in sports mode and the steering stiffness gets a lot heavier especially when going quicker ;)

[lhoran]

Most unconvincing Autocar review I've seen in a long time, Sutcliffe please train the man

[HesteBremse]

I did not like it in Yellow, but thats just personal opinion. Pretty short review that ended perhaps where it should have started (idk). But it should be a little better than a Golf R somehow, with the lower set profile and layout - a TT in my head should be closer to a Boxter. Would like to see it on Track vs Golf R and perhaps a 3rd contender, The Pegeout RCZ or bring on an entry level Boxter. Will there be an RS TT ? The Sportiest concept revealed this year looked very Promising.

[powerofpinesol]

Audi would have some terrific sport cars if they could just fix the steering.

[JWL-UK]

Who cares about the Golf? The TT is an icon while the Golf is just a hatchback that has changed very little in over 20 years in how it looks.

[ScottZ]

The audi r8 project probably taught them how to do handling