2012 Audi TT RS Video

2012 Audi TT RS Video Transcript

-Audi's TT sports car comes in 3 flavors. The have the base model, the TPS and not the TTRS. That's the top of the line fastest model and we're here looking at the 2012 Audi TTRS. The RS in the name stand for "RennSport," translate that into English means racing sport. The RS version of the TT has a few different elements from the standard TT. The TTRS gets a bigger engine. They Audi's magnetic ride suspension technology standard plus we get some different appearance packages. This car has this optional optic package they call it, gives us this silver mirror covers. You can also get carbon fiber and back here we have a fixed spoiler. It does a way with some of that motorized elements saves little weight, which keeps true to this car's sporting theme. Audi has been doing some wonderful things with cabin tech lately like Google Earth integration on the navigation system, but this car, not so much. This generation is 6 years old for the TT and the can tech is 6 years old as well. Here in the head unit we have just the stock system. No upgrades and this is a basic radio. It's got satellite radio. It's got broadcast. It's got a CD player and according to the register somewhere around here, there's an auxiliary input, but I can't find it and as it is, we do have a 9-speaker audio system, which isn't too bad, but you really can't hear it very well over the sound of the engine. There's really aggressive engine in this. You can get an upgrade here though. You can get a navigation system and that comes in a tech pack in just $3500 tech package that brings in a Bose Audio System, so an upgrade over that 9-speaker system and iPad integration. Now, you can't get iPad integration without the navigation system, and the navigation system is DVD based. It's 6 years old, which isn't great. Sports car fans are gonna love the fact that Audi only offers one transmission with this car. It's a 6-speed manual. So, shift your own gears at the way it should be. No DSG or dual clutch manual transmission, but we also have this S spot on the console, which controls some of the more high tech elements of this car. For example, put it in S mode and it makes the acceleration more aggressive. The throttle is a little more sensitive and it also controls the magnetic suspension that when you put it in S mode. It makes the right quality steeper and handles the corners better. Of course, on the flip side, it also makes the ride a little less comfortable, but this S spot also controls the sport exhaust. Now, that's another option that we have in this car, 1500-dollar option. It makes the exhaust sound more aggressive. It opens up from back rolls and you get this really like roaring sound, which doesn't do much for performance, but it certainly makes you happy. Now, this small cabin, you might assume that TTRS is a two-sitter, but I'm gonna prove it's a coupe. You can see there are back seats here, but I'm gonna need the chiropractor after sitting back here and banging my head under-- under this low, low roof. You won't wanna sit back here for at all, really. Let me get myself out of this place here. As standard TTRS, you got these carbon fiber engine covers, not really important. What's more important is you get an extra cylinder. This is a 2.5 liter 5 cylinder direct injection with turbo charger and that's one more cylinder, and 0.5 liters more than the standard TT. That adds up to 360 horsepower and 343 pound-feet of torque. That was a huge number for this small car. So, you get the really good acceleration. Now, you also notice this engine sit sideways, side saddle. You think this is a mark of a front-wheel drive car, but the TTRS has quattro all-wheel drive standards, so that doesn't really matter. What's more mediocre about this engine is the mileage. 80 miles per hour in the city, 25 miles per hour in the highway, not great, pretty average numbers, but that's not really the point of this car. And what Audi tried to do with the TTRS sport mode, this is a dual-purpose car. This is something that BMW does really well, you know, in this-- Yeah, leave at sport mode in the city. You can drive around, drive to work everyday, but it doesn't work so well in this car because the suspension and non-sport mode never really gets comfortable and engine always remains little touchy, little hard to control in traffic. On the front part [unk] like I'm on right now, you can really get a sense of how this is supposed to handle the places it's supposed to be in. This is fun driving around here. The suspension really just handles these corners nicely and you get a nice sense of rotation on the turns, but there're a couple of things I don't really like about this car as far as the sports car goes. One of that is the fact that it's got this electric power steering system that is not tuned all that great. I don't know if the turn in isn't every tight, you don't feel a lot of response like you do in the, you know, the best systems that I've tested. This car just remains kind of vague and it doesn't have the sharp turn in that I would really want from a good steering system in a sports car and I think that we tell the Audi engineers to have a chance to tone that little bit better. Another thing I'm not crazy about is the gate of this manual transmission. The gate isn't quite as tight as it could be. I really wanna be able to feel it smoothly go in each gear, but it's kind of notchy and doesn't really give me a good sense of going into each gear though ultimately what I'm feeling right here is this is an okay sports car, but I think there are better options out there, certainly less expensive ones. The base price of the 2012 Audi TTRS is $56,850. The tech package I talked about is $3500. I'm not sure Audi would include because it's an old system. The sport exhaust, that's fun, $1500 might as well throw that on there, but ultimately I might Porsche Boxster, the car we just reviewed with just had a model update or wait for the model update for TT whenever that's gonna come.

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