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Farewell, Audi TT! Final unit rolls off the line

The final example of the Audi TT has rolled off the production line in Hungary, bringing down the curtain on a nameplate that has spanned 3 generations and 25 years…

The Audi TT is no more. After 25 years, 3 generations and 662 762 units, the Ingolstadt-based firm has called time on the nameplate, with the final example having rolled off the Győr production line in Hungary.

Audi’s German account on Instagram confirmed the end of the line for the TT, posting images of the very last unit to be built. Judging by the photographs, the final example is a TT S coupé.

As a reminder, the badge (which stands for “Tourist Trophy”) was introduced to the world at the 1995 Frankfurt Motor Show in the form of the Audi TT concept. Around 3 years later, the production version (codenamed Type 8N) was unveiled, marking the start of a run that would last a quarter of a century.

In 2006, the 2nd-generation model (Type 8J) hit the market, before the Mk3 TT (Type FV/8S) made its debut in 2014. All 3 generations of the 2-door model – offered in both coupé and roadster guises – were available in South Africa.

For now, the TT is still listed on the German company’s South African website, with a trio of Audi Sport derivatives on offer: the TT S coupé quattro (R912 000), the TT RS coupé quattro (R1 259 700) and the TT RS roadster quattro (R1 317 800). Of course, with production having officially ended, the nameplate will be put out to pasture here as well once local stock runs dry.

For the record, the TT S employs a turbocharged 2.0-litre, 4-cylinder petrol engine sending 228 kW and 380 Nm to all 4 wheels via a 6-speed dual-clutch transmission. The RS, meanwhile, uses Audi’s turbocharged 2.5-litre, 5-cylinder petrol mill, which delivers 294 kW and 480 Nm to all 4 corners via a 7-speed dual-clutch cog-swapper.


 
End of the road for the Audi TT as last unit rolls off the line

The Audi TT heralded an exciting new design era for the German brand when it was first launched 25 years ago, but now the compact sports car is no more.

Audi confirmed in a post on its German Instagram page this week that the last unit had rolled off the assembly line in Györ, Hungary.

Over 660,000 of the compact coupes and roadsters have been produced through three generations since the very first TT hit showrooms in 1998.

Named after the Tourist Trophy (TT) race on the Isle of Man, where Audi’s forebears NSU and DKW achieved great success on two wheels, the Audi TT first saw light of day in concept form at the 1995 Frankfurt Motor Show.

Reaction to the show car was so positive that Audi decided to create a production car as close to the concept as possible.

 
Goodbye, ‘Tourist Trophy’: this is the very last Audi TT built

Audi’s Bauhaus coupe has finally bowed out after more than 660k cars sold worldwide

Earlier this year, Audi revealed the TT ‘Final Edition’, a car designed and built to celebrate 25 years since the original Bauhaus wonder first burst onto the scene and right into About a Boy … and to bid it a fare thee well. For it would be the last generation of Audi TT.

And this is the absolutely last ever TT unit. Because it is the absolutely last ever TT unit to have rolled off the production line. That’s it. No more TTs will be delivered into this world anew.

“With its series debut in 1998, the Audi TT made design history,” said Audi Germany’s Instagram post. “Now, after 25 years, the last TT Coupe has rolled off the assembly line in Györ, Hungary.”

This one’s a TTS, which pairs a 2.0-litre four-cylinder turbo petrol engine with four-wheel-drive (the name escapes us) and a seven-speed S tronic auto gearbox. It’s fast. It’s still pretty. And it’s a car… that sadly nobody’s buying anymore.

 
40 years of Audi Sport: TT RS meets legendary Sport Quattro

As a fitting finale, the last-of-the-line Audi sports car meets one they made earlier

Audi has ended production of the TT for good, bringing to an end not just 25 years of the model line itself - but more than four decades of five-pot, four-wheel-drive Audi sports cars, dating back to the 1980 arrival of the original Quattro.

Appropriate, then, to consider how our range-topping TT RS long-term test car stacks up against one of the earliest examples of the breed.

The old-timer on hand here is the more raucous Sport Quattro, its wheelbase shortened so extensively as to give an almost square footprint and comically outsized overhangs, its engine block swapped for a lighter alloy lump and topped by a bespoke 20-valve head, and its body panels – now fashioned from ultra-light Kevlar or carbonfibre – sprouting ludicrous swellings and aero addenda.

www.autocar.co.uk

40 years of Audi Sport: TT RS meets legendary Sport Quattro | Autocar

As a fitting finale, the last-of-the-line Audi sports car meets one they made earlier
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