RE: Audi TT RS: PH Fleet

RE: Audi TT RS: PH Fleet

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Terminator X

15,082 posts

204 months

Friday 23rd February 2018
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Stupidly fast + the rumour is that Audi had to hold it back for fear of treading on the toes of the R8 (speed wise).

TX.

CaptainRAVE

360 posts

112 months

Friday 23rd February 2018
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My goodness that article hurt my head. Lovely car though. Will probably replace my SLK55 down the line.

Arsecati

2,310 posts

117 months

Friday 23rd February 2018
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Wow, I don't think I've ever made a comment like this, as I hate to be critical of any individual here - but I have to agree with a lot of the comments above: that WAS a hard read! Though to be honest, I didn't/couldn't read it all and gave up after a few paragraphs to just cut to the ending summary....... but then that was just as difficult to get through! As others have said, please don't try shoe-in so many 'fancy' words: we're only interested in your review of the car - NOT your abilities to insert bucketloads of flowery language! :/

V8 FOU

2,974 posts

147 months

Friday 23rd February 2018
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UmpaLoompa said:
“Either way, it's the other end of the scale I'm getting at, where the RS will do severe and utterly savage things with the nonchalance of neurosurgeon. It won't trouble itself with nuance, but nor does it forget to molest your eardrums with the inimitable sound of an inline-five motor trying to eat its valvetrain either.”

.......Right.
Pseuds Corner in Private Eye beckons....

Pretentious twaddle once again. Puts the likes of Will Self in the shade.

Diderot

7,318 posts

192 months

Friday 23rd February 2018
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NUMBER of people not AMOUNT of people. banghead

loudlashadjuster

Original Poster:

5,127 posts

184 months

Friday 23rd February 2018
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Diderot said:
NUMBER of people not AMOUNT of people. banghead
Hey, what the hell do you know? This guy is a professional.

neil1jnr

1,462 posts

155 months

Friday 23rd February 2018
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Probably sounds good, it's quick.
Looks rubbish, wheels are a joke. Much better alternatives IMO

Oh, and what the hell is the 2nd last paragraph supposed to tell me?

sideways sid

1,371 posts

215 months

Friday 23rd February 2018
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CaptainRAVE said:
...Lovely car though. Will probably replace my SLK55 down the line.
Coincidentally, same here!

...Not sure what that tells us about the TT RS or the SLK55!

culpz

4,884 posts

112 months

Friday 23rd February 2018
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Not meaning to jump on the hate wagon for Nic Cackett but i did find this one a particularly difficult read. As someone else said, the PH Fleet articles are to give an insight on the car which is being ran at the time. This doesn't appear to explain any of that and simply contains some very odd statements.

Anyway, back to the car. I really like the TTRS and it's becoming a real monster for Audi right now. It's a good size, has bonkers power, a nice interior and i believe the old TT image is wearing off with this particular shape.

redroadster

1,739 posts

232 months

Friday 23rd February 2018
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It's actually cheap for its performance acceleration near super car .
Great build quality compact size great daily Driver won't fall to bits I'll have one when depreciation curve suits my pocket .

PoopahScoopah

249 posts

125 months

Friday 23rd February 2018
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ogrodz said:
Just snorted at that! :-)

Mr Cod

140 posts

104 months

Saturday 24th February 2018
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Really, really painful prose.

Mr Cod

140 posts

104 months

Saturday 24th February 2018
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Aside from what I hope are typos - "stringently fast and evocative in a way that was acutely Audi's own" isn't just a question of literary taste - it literally doesn't make any sense!

MissChief

7,111 posts

168 months

Saturday 24th February 2018
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Once upon a time fast fleet reports gave details about the car, the type of driving done in it and any issues including the price of servicing, tyres etc as well as how it is to live with. This was the rambling musings of a writer who, it felt, had his thesaurus open during the writing. Was there actually an opinion of the car by the writer themselves?

johnwilliams77

8,308 posts

103 months

Saturday 24th February 2018
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trilla said:
The new TT-RS is a much better car than the old one, so a bit strange to mention that.

Looks are subjective, but I think the Evora looks like a crappy kit car. Don't love the TT but the RS looks nice.
Evora is probably a more special feeling car being mid-engined but you're kidding yourself if it will be as comfortable as an Audi.
The Evora sounds decent for a 6 but there are very few engine notes on earth that will be an inline-5, it's glorious.
Can't get the Audi with a manual but the S-tronic is fantastic. Depends what you want I get.
Pipped? The TT-RS would demolish most cars in adverse conditions.
I don't disagree, Evora is definitely better for feedback and feel.
Equal? Not really, the TT-RS has a proper boot and good visibility, but the Evora can't really help being mid-engined.
Maybe the engine because it's a Toyota unit, but it's everything else that breaks on a Lotus.
Have you been in an evora??? v v comfortable. amazing ride quality

kainedog

361 posts

174 months

Saturday 24th February 2018
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What a poorly written article

ogrodz

179 posts

120 months

Saturday 24th February 2018
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PoopahScoopah said:
ogrodz said:
Just snorted at that! :-)
Perhaps it's because he was very, very drunk...

Trevor555

4,440 posts

84 months

Saturday 24th February 2018
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Someone on the TT forum who has just ordered one says Audi have now closed the order books again for TTRS models.

No idea if that's true, anyone on here know?

thesmurfs

117 posts

96 months

Saturday 24th February 2018
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Either way, it's the other end of the scale I'm getting at, where the RS will do severe and utterly savage things with the nonchalance of neurosurgeon.

Really not liking the writing style honestly why can't journalists why something plain and simple to read nowadays?

Edited by thesmurfs on Saturday 24th February 19:13

Cobnapint

8,628 posts

151 months

Saturday 24th February 2018
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thesmurfs said:
Either way, it's the other end of the scale I'm getting at, where the RS will do severe and utterly savage things with the nonchalance of neurosurgeon.

Really not liking the writing style honestly why can't journalists why something plain and simple to read nowadays?
99% of them CAN. It's just this particular one that thinks it's big AND clever to show off whatever English language qualification he earned when he was younger.

He needs rolling back to the version he was at just before some idiot taught him this overblown nonsense. Even if it comes out looking like a kids wrote it - it's gotta be better than having to dig through that lot every time.