Audi’s TT has never been a car for everyone. But now it’s tough to know if it’s a car for anyone. It’s in an existential crisis, a tiny high-style coupe adrift in an ocean of SUVs. And now, with the 2016 tts coupe, it has 292 horsepower with which to explore the boundaries of being and nothingness.
Much of what turns the TT into a TTS is the same stuff that twists an A3 into an S3, or Volkswagen’s GTI into a golf R. That includes the higher-performing version of the group’s turbocharged and direct-injected 2.0-liter iron-block four-cylinder. Running its own cylinder head, pistons, turbocharger, higher-pressure fuel-injection system, and other tweaks that separate it from more-plebeian versions, this four is beastly.
