Sentences with phrase «tt based car»

I reckon this is a TT based car judging by the overall style and the rear end in particular.

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But as Manuel Lage has discovered the first car to bear the name was an Alfonso Hispano - Suiza / Americans to the Rear — Rear engined designs — Part Three / Americans to the Rear — Concluding his series on American rear engined cars Karl Ludvigsen examines the role played by General Motors / Epicyclic Gearing — Workshop — Part Two / Settlers Special — A cut - down 1933 Riley Monaco shipped to Vancouver by an ex-pat in the»50s formed the basis for Miles Fenton's ideal supercharged special / Racing in the Rain — Alan Smith has been using his camera to good effect at motor sporting events for over 50 years / Ards TT 75th Anniversary — John Payne reports on the 75th Anniversary of the Ards TT / The Little Engine that could — Gavin Farmer celebrates the Jowett Bradford / It's quicker by Rail — Brian Heath's subject this month is a 1939 Railton long chassis special limousine.

Once it entered production, the TT was best described as a sporty car — it is, after all, based on the Volkswagen Golf.

The fitting of a 2.5 - litre five - cylinder engine into the TT is not a new thing though, the last TT RS also had this type of engine, but whereas the old car used a simple US - market based five - cylinder engine, the new one has an all - new unit, designed specifically for Audi RS models — you'll also find the engine in the latest Audi RS3.

Based on VW's apparently versatile MQB platform (it underpins vehicles as varied as the Audi TT and the forthcoming Atlas mid-size crossover) the Arteon sports a 2,842 - mm (111.9 - inch) wheelbase and tight front and rear overhangs, giving it style the staid Passat family car can only dream of.

The Audi TT never registered on my radar of desirable cars back in my teenage lusting - after - sportscars days, perhaps because I naively thought of it as a front - wheel drive - based faux sportscar.

Based upon the VW group's MQB platform, some might think Audi's TT is a softcore sports car, but the performance figures suggest otherwise.

To that end, and with any luck, expectations this is a forerunner to a production TT RS are lost when it's revealed the concept car is powered by a heavily worked engine based on the familiar EA888 2.0 litre turbocharged four cylinder and not an inline five cylinder.

Still, for all of its dramatic styling, the base Audi TT is much more of a quick car than a fast car, leaving most of the high - speed shenanigans to its TT RS cousin.

As well as the roadster, which will be a natural rival for cars like the Audi TT and Porsche Boxster, the Brit mag says other vehicles will follow but the challenge within Alpine is all of them must be based on the A120 mid - engine / rear - wheel drive architecture, which could limit what's feasible.

Based on the street ready Audi TTS sports car, the TTS was chosen for this project because of its compatibility with a variety of in - vehicle technologies.