At next month’s Geneva Motor Show Audi will pull the wraps from a completely new iteration of its TT. For the new third generation model, the designers say they have reinterpreted a host of ideas from that first car that was launched back in 1998.
The front end of the new Audi TT has dominant horizontals. The “Singleframe” grille is broad and flat. Two contours form a V-pattern over the bonnet. The position of the four rings is also new – they now sit centrally on the hood, echoing the R8.
Struts divide up the large air inlets. The headlights repeat this motif – they are structured with divider struts acting as reflectors for the daytime running light. Audi can supply the headlights as an option with LED technology or its Matrix LED technology, where controllable individual light-emitting diodes generate the main beam.
Many details of the new Coupé’s profile are reminiscent of the first generation’s design. The sill contour forms a light edge and the wide wheel arches constitute distinct geometrical entities. At the front, the wheel arch intersects the bonnet join, which continues over the door as the tornado line and extends all the way to the rear. The flat greenhouse looks like an entity in its own right. The shape of the C-pillar incoporates a slight kink.
At the rear, too, horizontal lines reinforce the car’s width. The struts in the rear lights pick up on the headlights’ motif. They remain permanently on – an Audi first. The third brake light with a flat strip shape links the two units on either side. All engine versions have two large, round exhaust tailpipes in the diffuser. Like all Audi S models, the TTS features four tailpipes.
Inside, the centre console and door trims have flowing, matching shapes. Seen from above, the dashboard is designed to resemble the wing of an aircraft. The round air vents, a traditional TT feature, have a turbine-like look and incorporate the air conditioning controls. This solution – and the elimination of the central MMI monitor, now replaced by the Audi “virtual cockpit” – paves the way for a dashboard with slimmer architecture.
Source: Audi
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