Only 200 of these Audi TTs will be on sale in the UK

The ultimate TT has big-time performance – and very big-time rarity.
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John Calne|Pistonheads25 November 2016

For a bit more than fifty grand, you can have the ultimate Audi TT.

Actually, you can’t. Britain has been put down for less than 200 examples of the TT RS, and they’ve all been specced up ahead of sale. Which means the £51,800 list price is an entirely notional thing – especially as, if you take Audi’s own website as your barometer of these matters, the vehicle already no longer exists.

If it did exist, it would have a 2.5-litre turbocharged five-cylinder banging 394bhp on to the ground via all four wheels. It would be available in hard and soft-top form, and would offer the choice of manual and automatic gearboxes.

These would take it up to 0.60 mph in 3.7 and 3.9 seconds respectively. And whichever you had under your control, you’d get there with a lovely throaty noise ringing in your ears.

Once moving, you’d be able to enjoy an excellent dynamic performance – aided by the sort of grip you only get from a well set-up all-wheel drive transmission. At this (notional) money, there are Porsches available too – and some of them would be casting worried glances over their shoulders at this powered-up TT.

But yes, the money is notional because you don’t get to choose the options – someone else has done that for you, and in the case of the car tested here they’ve kicked the price up to £68,000.

And anyway, the TT RS doesn’t exist, remember? So what that blue thing is in this video is anybody’s guess. It sure does make a nice noise, though…

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