What you're looking at here is the almost-here third-generation
Audi TT.
Just compress the suspension a bit to take away its Allroad pretensions
and rake its backlight to align better with the previous generation's
aesthetic, and you're pretty well there. What you're looking at
officially,
of course, is the Audi Allroad Shooting Brake, a four-seat E-Tron
hybrid showcar powered by Audi's venerable 2.0-litre TFSI four-cylinder
(good for 292 horsepower) backed by a 40-kW electric motor and a
secondary 85-kW motor acting upon the rear axle to provide low- and
moderate-speed drive. The latter also provides through-the-road Quattro
all-wheel drive when extra traction and power is called for.
All-in, Audi says the Allroad Shooting Brake's ETron powertrain is good
for 408 horsepower and total system torque of 479 pound-feet, enough to
haul the 1,588 kilogram (3,500-pound) German to 100 km/h (62 miles per
hour) in 4.6 seconds and up to a governed 250 km/h (155 mph). Despite
that tidy performance,
Audi
says the Allroad Shooting Brake offers robust fuel consumption of 1.9
L/100 km, equivalent to 124 miles per gallon, with a bladder-busting
range of 820 kilomtres (510 miles).
As previewed last week at the
Consumer Electronics Show, the Allroad Shooting Brake features Audi's forthcoming
Virtual Cockpit technology,
which includes a massive 12.3-inch in-cluster TFT screen that provides
digital gauges and telltales for the navigation and audio systems, among
other features. The latter's information can be controlled by Audi's
latest-generation Multi Media Interface (MMI), whose brilliant gesture
control pad now sits resident atop an enlarged selector knob between the
seats.
What you're looking at here is the almost-here third-generation Audi TT.
Just compress the suspension a bit to take away its Allroad pretensions
and rake its backlight to align better with the previous generation's
aesthetic, and you're pretty well there. What you're looking at officially,
of course, is the Audi Allroad Shooting Brake, a four-seat E-Tron
hybrid showcar powered by Audi's venerable 2.0-litre TFSI four-cylinder
(good for 292 horsepower) backed by a 40-kW electric motor and a
secondary 85-kW motor acting upon the rear axle to provide low- and
moderate-speed drive. The latter also provides through-the-road Quattro
all-wheel drive when extra traction and power is called for.
All-in, Audi says the Allroad Shooting Brake's ETron powertrain is good
for 408 horsepower and total system torque of 479 pound-feet, enough to
haul the 1,588 kilogram (3,500-pound) German to 100 km/h (62 miles per
hour) in 4.6 seconds and up to a governed 250 km/h (155 mph). Despite
that tidy performance, Audi
says the Allroad Shooting Brake offers robust fuel consumption of 1.9
L/100 km, equivalent to 124 miles per gallon, with a bladder-busting
range of 820 kilomtres (510 miles).
As previewed last week at the Consumer Electronics Show, the Allroad Shooting Brake features Audi's forthcoming Virtual Cockpit technology,
which includes a massive 12.3-inch in-cluster TFT screen that provides
digital gauges and telltales for the navigation and audio systems, among
other features. The latter's information can be controlled by Audi's
latest-generation Multi Media Interface (MMI), whose brilliant gesture
control pad now sits resident atop an enlarged selector knob between the
seats.
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