RE: Audi TT RS Sport Edition | Driven

[markcoznottz]

https://youtu.be/T4jTr7zqi6g

Any car that can run a quarter mile in the 11's is very fast. It shows how far things have come. Simple tune and that would drop into the 10's. Anyone who goes to Santa pod will know that over a quarter mile there really isn't much difference over the line between a fast car and a supercar. To pull an appreciable gap needs mega horsepower. On the road, forget it.

[Kenny Powers]

Nice cars. I love a boosted 5-pot but I don’t think I could choose one of these over an M2 Competition.

[thesmurfs]

av185 said:

Report back in 12 months when the Audi has lost £22k v the Caymans £10k.

My MK3 RS has lost 12K in 18 months according to Audi.

Shiv_P said:

Let's get it out of the way

- Understeer

I've not experienced under steer on twisty A-roads so far. The much sharper steering and handling is a big improvement. The torque vectoring really does work. On a track it would show it's limits i'm sure but i've never tracked it.

Edited by thesmurfs on Sunday 26th May 14:06

[Trevor555]

thesmurfs said:

av185 said:

Report back in 12 months when the Audi has lost £22k v the Caymans £10k.

My MK3 RS has lost 12K in 18 months according to Audi.

My TTRS lost 12k in 12 months.

Part of buying a new car mostly I'm afraid.

Now Cayman GT4 was an exception, along with a few others, but only if you were the special few that was allowed to actually get their hands on one.

[funbobby]

Mk3’s seem to be holding pretty well?

[Trevor555]

funbobby said:

Mk3’s seem to be holding pretty well?

They dropped down to early 40's and seem to be almost holding there for now.

They're still quite a rare sight on the roads.

My wild guess is that they'll drop a little more and then hold quite well at mid thirties for a couple of years for the low mileage stuff.

After that who knows?

Will one be able to buy a loud car like this in four years time?

I'm guessing not.

[Slippydiff]

HM-2 said:

I don't particularly like how it looks (in fact I much prefer the RS3), and if the rest of the Haldex VW Group stable are anything to go by I won't especially like how it drives.
That said, am I the only one who looks at a kerbweight of ~1400kg and think's "actually not that bad". Apparently, it's almost identical to a Cayman S PKD, despite having AWD, 4(ish) seats and a big cast-iron block 5-pot up front.

Edited by HM-2 on Saturday 25th May 09:43

Not sure if it’s a cast iron block anymore ? I do know they reduced the engine weight something like 20kgs between this model and it’s predecessor though.

[200Plus Club]

Took my old shed to the kosovan car wash this morning and was suprised to see a very nice TT RS sat in front of me. Some sort of dayglo orange, sounded fabulous when it left. Not sure if I'd have taken it there myself but some people don't care obviously.

Edited by 200Plus Club on Sunday 26th May 18:13

[Warby80]

Slippydiff said:

HM-2 said:

I don't particularly like how it looks (in fact I much prefer the RS3), and if the rest of the Haldex VW Group stable are anything to go by I won't especially like how it drives.
That said, am I the only one who looks at a kerbweight of ~1400kg and think's "actually not that bad". Apparently, it's almost identical to a Cayman S PKD, despite having AWD, 4(ish) seats and a big cast-iron block 5-pot up front.

Edited by HM-2 on Saturday 25th May 09:43

Not sure if it’s a cast iron block anymore ? I do know they reduced the engine weight something like 20kgs between this model and it’s predecessor though.

Indeed, the block has not been cast iron for a couple of years now.

[anonymous-user]

av185 said:

Report back in 12 months when the Audi has lost £22k v the Caymans £10k.

Is this without the £14K engine rebuild between services?

Pre DFI was a POS engine. Too early to say if Porsche can actually still make an engine which holds together

[av185]

yonex said:

av185 said:

Report back in 12 months when the Audi has lost £22k v the Caymans £10k.

Is this without the £14K engine rebuild between services?

Pre DFI was a POS engine. Too early to say if Porsche can actually still make an engine which holds together

You mean like the current longstanding and well proven and unburstable technically brilliant Porsche 911 Cup car engine in the standard road going gen 2 GT3?

You can dream about it tonight whilst fawning over your 911 bedroom wall poster. :

[anonymous-user]

av185 said:

You mean like the current longstanding and well proven and unburstable technically brilliant Porsche 911 Cup car engine in the standard road going gen 2 GT3?

You can dream about it tonight whilst fawning over your 911 bedroom wall poster. :

No I mean the miserable bore scoring, bearing eating, oil leaking flat 6 fitted to many caterers and 911’s, heap of st engine that was. Still, Hartech can sort it out, shame Porsche didn’t. Fanboy never fails to disappoint. As for posters, I grew up looking at proper cars, Lamborghini and Ferrari. The 911 is just a safe, bland option. It’s also slower than a TT RS. Which is amusing

Any luck on those lap times of yours, or are you talking out of your ass as usual?

[av185]

yonex said:

av185 said:

You mean like the current longstanding and well proven and unburstable technically brilliant Porsche 911 Cup car engine in the standard road going gen 2 GT3?

You can dream about it tonight whilst fawning over your 911 bedroom wall poster. :

No I mean the miserable bore scoring, bearing eating, oil leaking flat 6 fitted to many caterers and 911’s, heap of st engine that was. Still, Hartech can sort it out, shame Porsche didn’t. Fanboy never fails to disappoint. As for posters, I grew up looking at proper cars, Lamborghini and Ferrari. The 911 is just a safe, bland option. It’s also slower than a TT RS. Which is amusing

Any luck on those lap times of yours, or are you talking out of your ass as usual?

Unsurprisingly from your irrelevant-to-the-thread and over aggressive attention seeking post it sounds like you've finally lost the plot. And you are trolling again so you should really apologise to the OP or you will get the thread closed no doubt.

And try taking another much needed step away from your daily crack pipe. :

Sounds like you've still got that massive chip on your shoulder about your pcpd A1/1series/whatever it is.

I would suggest you grow up. In fact you say you grew up looking at proper cars....Lamborghini and Ferrari. Quite clearly you will always be one who looks not owns or even drives. Perfectly understable with your attitude. Bless.

Lamborghini I can take or leave although the Performante is quite good in an over quirky typical Lambo way.

I can understand you salivating over Ferraris. I have a couple myself and they are probably on a par with Porsches finest.

Anyway, dream on.

Edited by av185 on Sunday 26th May 19:47

[RemyMartin81D]

av185 said:

Unsurprisingly from your irrelevant-to-the-thread and over aggressive attention seeking post it sounds like you've finally lost the plot. And you are trolling again so you should really apologise to the OP or you will get the thread closed no doubt.

And try taking another much needed step away from your daily crack pipe. :

Sounds like you've still got that massive chip on your shoulder about your pcpd A1/1series/whatever it is.

I would suggest you grow up. In fact you say you grew up looking at proper cars....Lamborghini and Ferrari. Quite clearly you will always be one who looks not owns or even drives. Perfectly understable with your attitude. Bless.

Lamborghini I can take or leave although the Performante is quite good in an over quirky typical Lambo way.

I can understand you salivating over Ferraris. I have a couple myself and they are probably on a par with Porsches finest.

Anyway, dream on.

Edited by av185 on Sunday 26th May 19:47

Take your own advice. Not just on this thread but other threads it's clear you are trolling who just does things to elicit a reaction. Get the fk over yourself.

[anonymous-user]

av185 said:

Unsurprisingly from your irrelevant-to-the-thread and over aggressive attention seeking post it sounds like you've finally lost the plot. And you are trolling again so you should really apologise to the OP or you will get the thread closed no doubt.

And try taking another much needed step away from your daily crack pipe. :

Sounds like you've still got that massive chip on your shoulder about your pcpd A1/1series/whatever it is.

I would suggest you grow up. In fact you say you grew up looking at proper cars....Lamborghini and Ferrari. Quite clearly you will always be one who looks not owns or even drives. Perfectly understable with your attitude. Bless.

Lamborghini I can take or leave although the Performante is quite good in an over quirky typical Lambo way.

I can understand you salivating over Ferraris. I have a couple myself and they are probably on a par with Porsches finest.

Anyway, dream on.

Edited by anonymous-user on Sunday 26th May 19:47

Amusing.

[Shiv_P]

av185 said:

Unsurprisingly from your irrelevant-to-the-thread and over aggressive attention seeking post it sounds like you've finally lost the plot. And you are trolling again so you should really apologise to the OP or you will get the thread closed no doubt.

And try taking another much needed step away from your daily crack pipe. :

Sounds like you've still got that massive chip on your shoulder about your pcpd A1/1series/whatever it is.

I would suggest you grow up. In fact you say you grew up looking at proper cars....Lamborghini and Ferrari. Quite clearly you will always be one who looks not owns or even drives. Perfectly understable with your attitude. Bless.

Lamborghini I can take or leave although the Performante is quite good in an over quirky typical Lambo way.

I can understand you salivating over Ferraris. I have a couple myself and they are probably on a par with Porsches finest.

Anyway, dream on.

Edited by av185 on Sunday 26th May 19:47

[Kasperoff]

Sounds like a great car, but it's the most awkward looking thing. I like the vanilla TT shape (I had a Mk1), but it doesn't lend itself to being tarted up. The backend especially lacks any kind of cohesion. One of the most out-of-place rear wings I've seen.

[twizellb]

yonex said:

av185 said:

I'd wager you would in any number of more focused road cars assuming equally competent drivers. Yes, the Audi is undoubtedly reasonably quick in a straight line. But under more challenging driving conditions, and not necessarily totally high speed related driving conditions (to pacify those snowflakes on here who might be offended by anyone possibly killing bunnies on the public road over 70mph lol), things would rapidly start to go downhill (literally) : for the Audi.

Especially a road similar to this. Ok, a little extreme but you get my point. It would all be about max possible speed on the straights, best performance on braking, turn in and cornering capabilities together with optimum weight distribution under power and out of corner acceleration under max tyre limits.

Anyone who thinks the Audi wouldn't be way out of its depth needs to have a serious word with themselves.

Well, if you read the Autocar review what you’re saying is the polar opposite.

They concluded the TTRS was faster than anything this side of a 911 turbo and GTR and that whilst displaying the usual ‘fast Audi’ traits it carried massive speed cross country. I’m sure you think you would destroy one on Stelvio pass but I’d wager you’d run out of talent trying. The Audi, for me, is deeply impressive. So what if it doesn’t have the last dregs of feel, it’s a modern road production car, they’re all devoid of feel. For that you need a lightweight vehicle, Caterfield and the like, but that’s a different discussion. Although I’ll point out it appears you’re lost in ultimate track times (which you wouldn’t have a hope of matching).

It’s a 50K car, why are you bothered, is it your position to make yourself feel better by reminding everyone (again) about your GT3? I’d have thought you’d fully understand the value of the TT RS and what it achieves for its price. Sub 4 sec 60, faster than any Porsche in a straight line up to the 911 turbo and a proper engine, not a farty 4 pot! Secure in the wet, not too precious to use and nice place to sit. It’s fast, not ‘reasonably quick’, unless you Class you’re own car as a bit tardy?

The real value though is to get under the skin of Porsche owners. Priceless, just shows what an insecure bunch you are

Stop being so judgemental.

Bang on.

[av185]

Kasperoff said:

Sounds like a great car, but it's the most awkward looking thing. I like the vanilla TT shape (I had a Mk1), but it doesn't lend itself to being tarted up. The backend especially lacks any kind of cohesion. One of the most out-of-place rear wings I've seen.

Not only out of place but serves no purpose whatsoever.

[anonymous-user]

av185 said:

Not only out of place but serves no purpose whatsoever.

You’ve defined yourself.

Brilliant