2002 Audi TT Review Summaries

What reviewers liked most about the Audi TT:

Way cool amber red leather interior with wide-lace baseball-type stitching makes the cabin of the [TT] roadster look like a giant catcher's mitt.

-- Automobile

[After 15,000 miles] the car's structure remains solid, with few squeaks or rattles.

-- AutoWeek

Available Quattro [all-wheel-drive] system provides the TT with sufficient grip to be practical year-round.

-- Car and Driver

Crystalline sound quality [from] the optional Bose audio system

-- Edmunds.com

The rubber/aluminum pedal pads and dead pedal are a nice extra touch.

-- Motor Trend

A blend of Art Deco, '50s Porsche, and contemporary engineering as original and distinctive as anything rolling today.

-- New Car Test Drive

Breakthrough styling both inside and out.

-- Road & Track

What reviewers liked least about the Audi TT:

Low roofline (on both coupes and convertibles) feel confining.

-- American Woman Road and Travel

Seating position [is] like sitting in a bathtub." --

-- Car and Driver

Power-window buttons [are] hidden behind the door handle...awkward to find and use.

-- Chicago Tribune

Too heavy to feel nimble

-- Edmunds.com

[TT Roadster's] trunk...won't hold much beyond a brief case or gym bag.

-- Motor Trend

There are big blind spots.

-- Motor Trend

Rear seats rate as extremely cramped, even in a class of cars notorious for cramped rear seats. Color them useless.

-- New Car Test Drive

Audi TT Comparisons:

The 180-horsepower TT has plenty of pep, but if you think there is no such thing as too much power and have an extra five grand, opt for the 225-hp version.

-- Automobile

Where the interior design of the [Porsche] Boxster never goes beyond the coldly functional, the TT interior is warm and exquisitely detailed.

-- AutoWeek

It's considerably less expensive--about $6000 less--than BMW's Z3 2.8 Coupe, a very good performer that offers only two seats.

-- New Car Test Drive

Best one-liner about the Audi TT:

The rear seats [in the TT Coupe]...are strictly glorified briefcase holders.

-- Automobile

We don't know the German word for gorgeous, but it certainly applies inside.

-- New Car Test Drive

Knife[s] through turns as precisely as a Beagle hound chasing a rabbit scent.

-- The Kansas City Star