You’ve seen the Audi TT Sportback. Now, it’s time for the 2016 Audi TT Roadster to shine at the 2014 Paris Auto Show.
The 2016 model rides on the MQB platform with a wheelbase that has gained 1.5 inches over the current TT, while the overall length is just an inch shorter. Weight comes in at 2,910.1 lbs. with manual transmission and front-wheel drive, and the chassis is stiffer thanks to solid steel tubes inside the A-pillars, steel ribbing in the sills, and various V braces throughout the underside.
The soft-top is 6.6 lbs. lighter than the top now in play, can be operated up to 31.1 mph, takes up little of the TT’s 9.9 cubic-feet of trunk space, and can open or close within 10 seconds.
Up front, the U.S. market will receive a 2-liter turbocharged engine delivering 230 horses, 310 in the TTS model. A spoiler deploys at speeds above 75 mph.
Finally, a revised Quattro system puts more power to the back, allowing for safer, more controlled drifts on low-friction surfaces.
I’ve never seen a car look embarrassed before. Nay, mortified.
Too tall, with none of the “cuteness” of the original. Audi already makes the A3 cabrio; does the market really need TWO fancy Golf Cabriolets?
As far as I am aware, Audi does its own engineering. the 2 A4s I owned were built off the same platform as the Passat, but I’m not aware that there were any major common parts.
The market will decide if it wants this car or not. Personally, I like what I see. A lot.
If you’re talking about the B5 chassis, it was the other way around – VW got an A6-sized car with A4 mechanicals. A4 came out in late 96, Passat in 98. The engines and transmissions were the same – even quattro/4motion. So was the suspension – with it’s brilliance and it’s flaws.
It sure is an attractive yellow…brick
What possesses one to say “I want a $50k German convertible and I DON’T want a Boxster?”
IMS?
Hasn’t been a problem since ~’09 or so (they deleted it).
I could see wanting a 3-series convertible. As a Miata owner, there are times I wish I could fit 4 people on a nice day. Then again, if you have 4 people, there will always be at least one person who is too cold or doesn’t like the wind…
I had to look close to make sure this Audi was a 2 seater. The styling is so conservative it looks like there should be room in the back for passengers.
You want AWD? You like the looks better? Boxsters aren’t really $50K once you start ticking boxes on the order form?
I don’t think I would order one in yellow, but this car looks pretty good to me. But I would take a 2-series drop-top first over either one. RWD, can get with a stick, back seat (sort of), and cheaper too.
How’s the TT in price comparison to the lovely A4 Cabrio (or maybe replaced by the A5 Cabrio now), assuming they still make such a thing. I never see them so I’m not sure.
That’s the one I’d go for.
Still a chick car.
Agree. Easier drifting is not relevant on the way to the salon, or tanning, or post office.
The first one had some seriousness about it, and was sort of avant garde in the styling department. It just looks silly now. And in yellow puts me in mind of the Copen.
Isn’t a “solid steel tube” called a bar…? :)