Audi Dropping V6 From All TT Models In 2010

Give me the R4 already...

— budfrogS4 (View Profile)

Posted on 9/28/2009 8:42:13 AM | | Votes: 0   

Try TTRS as it blows by you.

— VISO (View Profile)

Posted on 9/25/2009 9:37:15 PM | | Votes: -1   

— validus00:

> Just what the TT needs: more feminine powertrain
> to complement its feminine looks.

Not just that. This move is the sign of typical Audi counterfeit premium image.

1. Put an economy class engine into the (fake) premium car because such engine is CHEAP to build.

2. Launch some frustrated commercials where you point out who the leader is and try to put the better competitors in bad light.

3. Allow a frustrated CEO to speak, trying to promote Audi inefficient, dirty, unreliable, complex and expensive (to buy and own) diesel technology when competitors (GM, Toyota) are light years ahead, polishing their plug-in hybrids which are plain and simply the future of motoring.

4. Put some rubberized plastics in the inside to create fake impression of quality. The TT is just a rebadged VW Golf/Rabbit and carries its economy class technology in every relevant aspect of the car (engines, transmissions, driveline, chassis, suspension). So Audi needs to hide this CHEAPO basis and mislead their customers so that they think they bough something worth the price. Maybe some idiots will swallow this pill?


Why do you think Audi needs to put the "premium" word next to any equipment line of their cars while other brands do not?

— downtoearth (View Profile)

Posted on 9/26/2009 9:04:41 AM | | Votes: 1   

wow! downtoearth... You sound like you have a personal grudge against Audi/VW. What happened, did one it your car? were you hit by one crossing the street? Where you fired from one of their dealerships?

— ThierryHenry14 (View Profile)

Posted on 9/26/2009 10:11:57 AM | | Votes: -3   

— ThierryHenry14:

> wow! downtoearth... You sound like you have a personal grudge
> against Audi/VW. What happened, did one it your car? were you hit by
> one crossing the street? Where you fired from one of their dealerships?

Neither of these.

I'm an engineer, interested in automotive technology for years and I usually evaluate whether technical merits and innovations justify the price.

There are Audi products worth credit, like A4 Avant/A5 (mandatory as quatto, not front wheel drive, with turbocharged engines and automatic/automated gearboxes) and Q5. These cars are still too expensive for what they deliver, in my opinion, but at least Audi backs up the charge with upmarket technical underpinnings.

But the A3 and TT are nothing like what's mentioned above. They are just ordinary technology, rebadged and for premium price, something completely counterfeit. The article only emphasizes this fact and my point.

— downtoearth (View Profile)

Posted on 9/26/2009 10:59:06 AM | | Votes: 4   

downtoearth- would you please explain what you mean by "ordinary technology" and how that makes for an inferior car? The comments you make clearly indicate a personal preference, even a grudge. Certainly not what I would expect from an analytical engineer.

— JustaCar (View Profile)

Posted on 9/27/2009 8:38:48 AM | | Votes: 1   

maybe not rebadged but Audis version of the golf yes, the golf in most iterations is still the better car unless you just have to have the TT. Its wierd I wonder why Vw chose to group the cars so close together because by comparison the TT is getting the short end of the stick, a car that is priced against Premium competitors with engines from an economy car, an interior that would look fine in the golf or scirocco which isnt saying it looks cheap it doesnt just not anything above the interior in those cars, all at a price that places it in a class where it simply shouldnt be at all the TT should have been not much more than the VWs not twice the GOlfs price in some iterations thats crazy......its nto a porsche boxster, slk, or Z4 and honestly probably never will be.

— bmwdrvr (View Profile)

Posted on 9/26/2009 9:26:58 PM | | Votes: 0