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First official pictures of the Audi TT RS escape onto the web. It’s going to be quick…

20 February 2009

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Audi TT RS

More pictures of the Audi TT RS

The hottest Audi TT ever – the TT RS – has escaped onto the interweb. Well, bits of it have, anyhow. Pointy, fast bits.

These are the first-ever official teaser pictures of the TT RS, released today by Audi after some unscrupulous crim-types broke into Ingolstadt HQ and made off with a few vital details. We like the details.

Take a look through our gallery to get a few hints as to what we can expect when the TT RS debuts in Geneva. That big rear wing and diffuser, for a start, are good indicators some serious speed in the offing, while the scything front vents remove any last traces of hairdresser from the TT.

So will the performance. The TT RS is powered by a 2.5-litre, five-cylinder turbo petrol engine with direct injection, a heavily developed version of VW’s ‘VR5’ engine and the first five-pot Audi in a decade.

Audi has confirmed that the TT RS’s power output will be ‘well above 300bhp’ – we expect the final figure to be about 340bhp, courtesy of sequential turbochargers, feeding all four wheels through Audi’s ‘quattro’ four-wheel drive through a manual gearbox.

We’re told that the TT RS’s 0-62mph time will be ‘nowhere near five seconds’ – yes, that means a lot less than, rather than a lot more. Expect the figure to be in the four-and-a-half second region, with a top speed limited to 155mph. That is seriously, seriously quick: quicker, in fact, than the top-of-the-range Porsche Cayman S.

The TT RS will also get uprated brakes and suspension to deal with all the power. Price? No word yet, but we’d expect it to be well north of £40,000. We’ll find out in Geneva in early March.

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We have all seen the front before, haven't we? Ford Focus RS? -Anyone? It still looks very promising for the hairdresser.

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Intirely off topic: Why am I not allowed to make my own breaks? It makes the text I write much plainer to read. Ok some idiot might want to make an awful lot of spaces, and thus should be banned. Ban them, do not limit me. Appoligies for the off-topicness.

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I'm with Ivar on the no-new-line thing. It can make a comment seem disjointed. As for the TTRS (or titty-arse), I think the Cayman S will still be the better sports car. It's a pure, naturally aspirated MR sports car, unlike the turbo'd, AWD, bespoilered Audi, which seems a little chavvy. Or, with some of those sharp edges, Japanese-ish.

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So, we've now got a TT RS, RS4 and RS6. Anyone fancy a turbocharged R8 RS? (please, please build it Audi!)

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Here there a few things I want to point out. 1.does the new tt look like an very similar to an R8 from front and back views? 2.this is a five cylinder engine but there is already a 3.2 V6? 3.the name reminds me of something. TT - TTRS, Z4 - Z4M, do you think they copied the style of name?

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