Drive Impression

Audi TTS

Truly stonking in every way!

Special - Audi's diminutive tearaway, TTS!

It’s Saturday afternoon. I’m cruising West on the Ring Road heading out towards Southgate, at which point I’ll have to take the mess that is the highway North from there, out to the Roodepoort area. When suddenly a dark blue E46 M3, with that gloriously vocal 3.2-litre straight-six burbling from its closely-stacked quad pipes, spears straight out into the right hand lane from where he just joined the highway shuffle. Right in front of my hotted-up-looking yellow TT.

He immediately gets stuck, as is typical, behind some stick-in-the-mud Mercedes who insists that 90km/h is the limit in the outside lane. Fortunately traffic is pretty clear, there’s plenty of space inside, so he drops a cog or two, that award-winning engine takes on the hard, metallic edge it’s so famous for, and he rockets past Mr Dawdler in the middle lane. Immediately I follow.

The next five minutes are pretty amusing. M3 Driver at first appears utterly bemused by the titchy little Audi which remains resolutely on his tail, in fact quickly eats up any gap I playfully allow him to pull out and then has to dip its nose under braking to avoid his utterly wrung-out rump. He has no answers for what the little banana missile has in hand, and it’s only when he falls back into the left to turn off at Southgate that he clocks the fat, quad pipes on this TT, and the innocuous TT S logo affixed to the compact, curvy little rear end.

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