With six cylinders under a cowl, the clever and fast “automatic device”, a full drive quattro, magnificent the chassis, a “strong” suspension bracket and the most powerful brakes it is devilishly fast. Time when 250 h.p. become a habit however comes, and from a roar of “six” start to wait for even more rage. In this case open a roof, and 120 km/h will seem to the second space. Even with the lifted glasses and the wind-shelter screen in interior TT Roadster the wind walks as at home. But emotions becomes more and if you pass a tunnel the peals of a thunder published 3.2 V6, it is possible to frighten surrounding drivers outright.
The base version with four cylinders cannot please with so menacing sound of final system, but it is easier, more playful and is more economic. The only thing that does not suffice it, is a full drive. Dynamics? Version 2.0 TFSI on 0,6 with more slowly at dispersal up to 100 km/h, than top 3.2 V6. It palpable a difference, but even more palpable a difference in the price: for V6 it is necessary to pay in addition approximately 5000 dollars and as much again - for a roadster. Thus, top the version in a base complete set in Russia will cost nearby 75 thousand dollars. But the target market for a roadster becomes not Russia, not the USA and at all England, and Germany. Whether it is a lot of in Germany of cabriolets? In comparison with the same America or England it is a little. But with the advent of Audi TT Roadster their quantity can increase considerably.

I managed to test only 3,2-liter all-wheel drive version TT Roadster which has been equiped additionaly by “automatic device” S-tronic and shock-absorbers Magnetic Ride. As before, “automatic device” with two disks of coupling is excellent! Fast change of transfers, effective regasing at switching “downwards”. And here the suspension bracket has appeared hardish. From model of such class you wait for greater comfort though BMW Z4 is even more rigid and not so precise behaves on the broken road. Probably, in memory memoirs about former TT in which comfort was more, than drive are still alive. This new, gift that the cabriolet, irons turns with unknown enthusiasm. Easy front, the rigid body and a full drive do the business excellently. And what Magnetic Ride? Near to selector S-tronic there is button ” Sport ” which does shock-absorbers even more rigidly. It is tempting, but only not on the broken roads because even in a normal mode the roadster shakes order. But rolls are almost imperceptible and besides excellent coupling with road., that here it at times seems - the moment when the electronic system of stabilization EDS will crack, ABS and in the long term will work squibs pillows of safety, but TT valiantly dispells fear, and you approach on following turn already with greater confidence. All occurs so quickly, that when comes to wipe time sweat from palms, you appear in destination. It is how much fast TT Roadster?

Practice of pleasure
What pleasure - slowly to roll on coastal paths Nice at the wheel a cabriolet! The local youth which has got used to variegated masterpieces of world motor industry, very vividly reacted to a small roadster from Audi, and owners TT of the first generation approvingly noded a head. Audi TT Roadster is able to make impression on associates: a prompt, elegant silhouette, greater wheels, a convincing sound of 3,2-liter “six” … For greater shocking it is possible for the speed up to 50 km/h to put and lift top. And not as an example for compartment-cabriolets, which of a leather climb to overcome a 25-second boundary, roof Audi TT Roadster develops for 12 seconds. One pressing of the button - and electric drives “will silently pack” a fabric into compact boxing behind backs of the driver and the passenger. However, the electrohydraulic drive enters into standard equipment only the 6-cylinder version, and those who prefers four cylinders, a turbo-supercharging and a forward drive, and an additional noise isolation of soft top it is necessary to pay extra for 12 seconds. And it not avarice Audi, and as the head of a department of designing of cars Markus Zivert has declared, desire to please those consumers which prefer to electronics the simple and reliable mechanics. It is creditable. But then why the mechanical drive is not offered even as an option for top version? Mister Zivert has faltered, but soon has skilfully translated conversation in a channel favourable to it: “ And how to you controllability? ” With controllability everything is all right! Audi TT Roadster is a first cabriolet on my memory in which interior nothing creaks neither in fast turns, nor on the broken road. The cabriolet copes as precisely and reliably, as a compartment. And it passes roughnesses as … rigidly.

The theory of a design
Let’s return in 1999 Audi TT Roadster - the car to which have spoiled “ ah! ” Soft developing roof. The first TT was good in a body of a compartment, and the roadster with the closed roof looked not so harmoniously. Therefore the future roadster expected to see with a rigid roof, as at Mercedes-Benz SLK, Volkswagen Eos, Peugeot 307 CC, Opel Astra Twin Top, Ford Focus Coupe Cabriolet, at last, BMW 3-rd series Convertible. Yes how many has divorced these transformers! Similar, the Europe was grasped with a fashion on a compartment-cabriolets. But stop, if to me it is necessary for a compartment, I buy a compartment and if I prefer cabriolets, what for to me in that case the car which looks as a compartment and besides weighs more? Audi considers, that present cabriolets with a rigid roof are intrigues of ” white collarets ” from a department of marketing and the present cabriolet is necessary to people. To a word so consider not only in Audi, but also in Bentley which has let out new Continental GT Convertible with a soft roof. But if in case of with Bentley black made of textile fabric the top is a fidelity to traditions experts Audi have taken from these traditions also practical advantage. The fabric roof is much easier than a metal transformer - a roadster only on 35 kg more hard a compartment, and that additional kgs are typed because of application of the strengthened thresholds with cell rigidity and built in in a framework of a windshield of an arch of safety. And directly soft top, even in view of the mechanism of folding, weighs less, than an aluminium roof of a compartment. So besides high rigidity of a body (in comparison with the previous model rigidity on torsion has increased on 120 %!) the roadster can brag of lower in comparison from a compartment the centre of gravity. How it has affected controllability?

New Audi TT declares other values. And at stylistic continuity the second generation of model looks much more expressively. At last it is pleasant to look at it not only sideways and behind, but also in front. A sports rage, a pressure, aggression became more. But the main opening new TT is that pleasure at the wheel which so waited from the first machine. Later eight years after prime-ministers TT we have received from Audi the present sports compartment. The body is made on technology Audi Space Frame and on 58 % consists of aluminium. Why not on all of 100 %? Because those of 42 % of steel of which the back part of the car is made, improve weighing on axes. Fasten aluminium to steel complex, but reliable way: welding, glue and bolts. That is why the body new TT is easier and much more rigid, than at the predecessor. Aerodynamics and distribution of elevating force on axes have improved: 60 % on a forward axis and 40 % on back, and owing to spoiler automatically put forward at 120 km/h it is possible to not be afraid, that TT will fly up. The interior became even more cosy, more qualitatively and is more spacious. There was the best, in opinion of jury of competition Engine of the Year, the engine - 2.0 TFSI (200 h.p.), and quick-firing “automatic device” DSG with two disks of coupling has received new electronic “brains” and name S-tronic. All became resolute in TT better, and abilities to active movement have risen on a level of other order. It turns out, it is already possible to send to the dealer? Certainly! If TT not the unique car in family, to you nobody to carry on a back seat and forecasts about global warming all the same will come true, it is necessary to wait spring 2007 and to become the owner new Audi TT Roadster.

Audi TT the first generation 270 thousand machines has been demanded in quantity, 65 % from which have fallen to a compartment. Under our forecasts, at new TT will be even more admirers, and version Roadster can compete in popularity with a compartment…
Red, black, “ grey condor”, “ beige Dakar ”, “ moorish dark blue ” … Only thirteen variants of painting of the body, six types of wheel disks and a package of sports plastic s-line. Choose - I do not want. To owners Audi TT of the first generation it was easier: concept TT, shown in 1995 on the Frankfurt motor show, appear before public in steel color, therefore the majority of already serial cars was bought up in such fashionable “metallic” on those times. Then in 1999 has appeared a roadster, but also for it the choice of colors has appeared is rather poor. With new model of business are differently. Having kept proportions and the general stylistics of design of the ex-terrier, TT became brighter. Predatory “physiognomy” and lateral pimple, giving to its shape more convincing kind, have brought in it the mite, but how much new model differs from previous, realize only after hundred kilometers at the wheel. What was the first TT? A conceptual, revolutionary compartment … on the basis of “fourth” VW Golf. All “ ah! ” From this car kept within emotional perception of its appearance and interior and when business reached driving, it behaved almost as Golf. Not bad, but it is obviously not enough to satisfy ambitions of drivers which have eaten a dog on “hot” hatchbacks.

Feature only that this package is intended not to emphasize advantages and without that enough beautiful model and to impart to it features of absolutely other car. Whether It was possible to make it, not having offended initial plan TT, and simply common sense? Have decorated up to unrecognizability is it is told not about this car. New elements are perfectly entered in familiar shape and could be offered as accessories from the company-manufacturer. If it was version RS compartment Audi, I would take it. You now will tell, that here business of taste. Truly, and to founders TT Caractere in good taste you will not give up. The firm credo sounds simply: to develop a qualitative product for corresponding model, to achieve ease of installation and whenever possible to keep fidelity of philosophy of the manufacturer. It is easy to tell - difficultly to make as in this case it was necessary to synthesize philosophy of two models. TT from Caractere with success reproduces some elements of style of ” the senior sister ”, R8. In a new forward bumper there were two large air inlets, but original antifog headlights are kept. To it it is necessary to add radiator a lattice with wider crosspiece to whom the license plate fastens. And still speech not about direct copying. Four bound rings remain on a lattice of a radiator, instead of are fixed on a cowl, as on R8. Wheel disks are chosen from catalogue Audi. Caractere has stopped on model Exclusive in diameter of 18 inches about family spokes in style RS. But soon Belgians will expand the offer due to wheel disks of own development. “ Forages ” TT it is looked more impressively owing to a new bumper with the false air offtakes located below lanterns. It is one more element strongly connected with image R8. In run-out the pair exhaust branch pipes can be integrated. For greater exclusivity Caractere gives to them the trapezoid form. At last, on a cover of a luggage carrier the rear wing that allows to refuse the sliding spoiler which is present on serial VOL. Well and, at last, main “salt” is established: two lateral air inlets between doors and back wings. Here it is exclusively decorative elements integrated into the panels of contrast painting. Cursed by some journalists on R8, these inserts on TT look quite organically. Caractere offers owners TT not easier version their compartment in the form of “ R8 for smaller money ”, and an opportunity to promote further away in familiarizing with values of mark due to accented sportive to model not to the detriment of integrity of its perception. And at full observance of standards Audi …

Audi TT Caractere is the compartment TT disguised under Audi R8. A joke? Kitsch? In any case it is good occasion to get acquainted with Belgian company Caractere
To estimate this project, they needed to be put beside - Audi R8 and TT Caractere. To put. As TT it is equipped by standard 2-liter motor TFSI capacity 200 h.p. and to wait from it for superdynamics at a level a superpenalty capacity 420 h.p. it is not necessary. The chassis, as well as interior, is kept without changes. Probably, TT with the motor established behind of the driver which could be examined through glass of a back door, would like much. But Caractere is not engaged in engineering tuning. Here the main thing - style. More truly, how it is free this style manipulates Belgian tuninger. However, technology all the same to not manage. The company here 15 years develops and sells aerodynamic elements for models Porsche, Volkswagen and Audi. Experience is saved up considerable. Today aerodynamic elements are produced from so-called PURim (submitted under pressure soft polyurethane) or PUR (submitted under pressure polyurethane polyfoam), providing higher quality, than polyester. polyurethane has received a wide circulation in motor industry. In particular, of this material make elements of interior. Polyurethane appreciate its elasticity and durability. In shipbuilding the case of courts often carry out from polyurethane the polyfoam concluded in an environment from fibreglass. Thus, the new bumpers which have been let out Caractere, surprisingly soft and strong (after easy impact they are capable to restore the primary form). The proof of gravity of the approach: all the elements created Caractere, satisfy to norms ISO 9000, well-tried the German Association of technical supervision (TUV) and meet new European requirements to a safety of pedestrians. Having born manufacture to Germany, the company has had an opportunity to use more qualified experts. Production which designed and has been let out Caractere, finds buyers in all corners of the world. Belgians are even suppliers of the some people tuningers which not too aspire to advertise such cooperation. But, I dare to assure you, it is a question of very solid companies! So, before you a new set of elements from Caractere for Audi TT the second generation.

Perhaps, it is the remarkable car. One of the few, capable to give rush from driving, “closing eyes” to our driver’s skills. And even if it would dress” in the Chinese suit, the automobile world would accept it on hurrah. But look, as its figure is faultlessly drawn. It is that case when for photographing fish spine beads on wheel disks turn exactly. Otherwise? Otherwise we risk to break harmony of forms of external surfaces. In front a firm lattice of radiator Single Frame which we see on all new models Audi. And here dimensional fires on light-emitting diodes while have been noticed only at R8. Now even in the most dark night, a fog, a rain, a snow associates will know, that comes nearer A5/S5. The back optics, however, as well as a lobby, does not differ originality of the form, but this severity and is bright distinctive feature A5/S5. First even it seems, that to shape of it the compartment yes Silva has no attitude but if you look on S5 in a structure will see influence of southern temperament. A lateral line it is womanly it was bent, and in the field of thresholds rough man’s force, on the contrary, is visible. At the same time proportions S5 reminds a compartment of classical configuration: short forward overhang, a long cowl, the interior displaced to a back axis … Such Audi to me after a shower.
And certainly, Audi again has shown the talent in the field of creation of exemplary interiors. Acquaintance begins with an anticipation when you recollect other models of mark and expect, that behind a weighty door with low glass there will be something especial. Dear aroma of a dense leather, gentle plastic, natural materials of furnish … the Original premium-class in the best display. It is possible to not go anywhere, and simply to examine and feel this interior. But it is better to sweep nevertheless. Then there will be an opportunity to estimate excellent ergonomics and advantages MMI above alternative multimedia complexes. The system is adjusted extremely logically, therefore it is possible to concentrate on road better.
Now I can admit the main thing: Audi S5 it is devilishly fast, and consequently I have arrived for a supper for 45 minutes earlier. But aperitif all the same has passed, because S5 is pleasant and in all rest, and not just in sports maneuvering. And while all ate greedily, I enjoyed the Italian beauty at the wheel German perfection.

What dynamics? If I was so purposeful in a life, as S5 at dispersal already sat in an armchair of chairman of any corporation. Just there, where future owner S5 works. In fact, to seize the superiority on road, it is necessary to renumerate generously diligence Audi, and I know not so many examples when convincing dynamics cost cheaply. Start about 1000 rev/min and be switched to 3000 rev/min to take pleasure in elastic draft of the motor and sated sounding Bang and Olufsen, or start about 4000 rev/min and be switched to 6500 rev/min to spoil mood to owner Porsche. The engine almost the same which has made RS4 one of the best supersedans. It hardly deforced, but too is allocated by system of direct injection of fuel FSI and dry crank case. Drafts suffice always and on any transfer and if you are bought on its easy, “torsional” character the sound and acceleration will for ever be printed in memory. To be dispersed from a place up to 200 km/h, S5 it is required only 19,1 with and that at gapers mouthes have opened, it is enough to urge on turns, costing on a place. The body is shaken together with pressing of a pedal of “gas”, and here already you and associates are convinced, that the sports car should sound only so: powerfully, energetically, threateningly. So, as if Harley-Davidson have added metal in a voice. But “Harley” is not able to switch transfer so precisely and smoothly. Selector MKP moves without special efforts, and it seems, that under a leather cover the gnome who directs the lever in necessary slot sits. Even the drive of coupling, always long-stroke in other models Audi, here is executed almost faultlessly.

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