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Audi TT: The Greatest Volkswagen Golf Ever Built
In the mid-1990s, Audi took a sports car proposal to Porsche.
Porsche passed.
Audi built it anyway.
Underneath, the new TT shared its basic architecture with the Volkswagen Golf Mk4. The firewall, pedal box, engine mounting points and much of the structure came from Volkswagen’s mass-market hatchback.
But Audi wrapped it in one of the most distinctive designs of the 1990s, charged more than twice the price of a basic Golf, and created a car that looked unlike almost anything else on the road.
Then people started dying.
At 200 kilometres an hour, the original TT coupé generated 567 newtons of…
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