Re: Non Rocco AUDI TT

["Ewan Hopkins" <ewan.hopkins@virgin.net>]

The TT has been criticised in some quarters for its handling so maybe it's
not the mannah from heaven that people seem to be making it out to be. By
the sounds of it, a similarly specced Corrado would leave it behind.  These
opinions have been on factory setup models so maybe a suspension upgrade
would iron out mosts of the problems.  IMHO, if you are going for audi,
there's only one choice: ur-q, unless of course you've got a spare 40+ grand
for the SWB version!

Ewan Hopkins.

----- Original Message -----
From: scott hand <vidahand@qx.net>
To: Scirocco <scirocco-L@scirocco.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 06, 1999 4:28 PM
Subject: Re: Non Rocco AUDI TT


> On Thu, May 6, 1999 9:14 AM, Shawn C Meze <mailto:skerocdriver@juno.com>
> wrote:
> >I saw the car at the International Autoshow and it had the biggest crowd
> >in the VW area. (The NB was being ignored this year.)
> >Sharp looking car. I think its a great way to bring back the Ghia if VW
> >ever decided to fly the VW logo on the grill. NB and the NG?? kewl.
> >
>
> The new Automobile magazine features the TT as well as the forthcoming TT
> Roadster (convertible). What I thought was interesting was the opening
> paragraph of the article on the TT:
>
> Dr. Ferdinand Piech, chairman of the Volkswagen AG, must be animated by
the
> spirits of two men: Walter Gropius and Briggs Cunningham. Like Gropius,
the
> founder of the Bauhaus school of design, he has a zeal for elegant and
> affordable products. And like Cunningham, the great sportsman who brought
> an American presence back to Le Mans in the 1950's, Piech is a sports car
> fanatic. These two personalities meet in his best product, the Audi TT.
>
>
> Now, I'm not gonna deny the impressive design characteristics of the new
> VW's and Audis, but what's up with the idea that Piech is a "sports car
> fanatic". If the TT was the only car they made I might let it slide, but
VW
> hasn't done jack in the sporty world since the death of the corrado! GTI's
> get more bloated and the rest are being pushed to the upscale market. Audi
> is in pretty much the same position with a bunch of nice sedans, but
> nothing really catering to the performance oriented until the TT came out.
> I just gotta wonder how the writer came up with this stuff (or how his bad
> grammar made it past the editors).
>
> All that said, I would gladly trade my 'rocco for the 6-speed 225hp 1.8T
> quattro version when it gets here. In silver, please.
>
>
>
> scott
>
> '86 Scirocco 8v
>
>
>
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