Audi TT RS (Press Release). Audi is already afresh address a five-cylinder engine - and a actual appropriate one at that. Arriving at dealerships this summer, the Audi TT RS has a turbocharged 2.5-liter engine with absolute gasoline injection; it produces 250 kW (340 bhp) and 450 Nm (331.90 lb.-ft.) of torque. The afire five-cylinder engine enables the Audi TT RS to accomplish amazing feats. In affiliation with quattro abiding all-wheel drive and a high-performance chassis, the engine makes the bunched Audi TT RS a best sports car - accessible as a coupé or roadster.
Sporty five-cylinder gasoline engines accept a continued bequest at Audi. The a lot of acclaimed is arguably the turbocharged 2.1-liter engine in the Audi quattro. The aboriginal version, which was launched in 1980, offered an absorbing 147 kW (200 bhp). And the Audi Sport quattro from 1984, anon advancing by motorsport, delivered a whopping 225 kW (306 bhp). For 25 years, turbochargers and quattro accept been a activating blueprint for success.
Audi has resumed application this recipe. Advised from scratch, the five-cylinder engine combines a turbocharger with FSI absolute gasoline bang to annoyance the Audi TT RS to a high-performance sports car. The TFSI delivers 250 kW (340 bhp) from a displacement of 2,480 cc (151.34 cu in): a specific achievement of 100.8 kW (137.1 bhp) per liter.
The power-to-weight arrangement is aswell outstanding. In the case of the Coupé, which weighs in at a simple 1,450 kilograms (3,196.70 pounds), the power-to-weight arrangement is just 4.3 kilograms per bhp. The Audi TT RS Auto has a weight of 1,510 kilograms (3,328.98 pounds) and a power-to-weight arrangement of 4.4 kilograms per bhp - acknowledgment to its acutely failing and abundantly aluminum physique complete as per the Audi Space Anatomy principle.
The Audi TT RS Coupé rockets from 0 to 100 km/h (0 to 62.14 mph) in 4.6 seconds; the Audi TT RS Auto needs just a tenth of a additional longer. The bound top acceleration of 250 km/h (155.34 mph) is alone the official amount for both versions; as an option, Audi can access it to 280 km/h (173.98 mph).
Almost even added absorbing is the advancing affairs power. The best torque of 450 Nm (331.90 lb.-ft.) is consistently accessible amid 1,600 and 5,300 rpm. In addition, the Audi TT RS overtakes after the aboriginal effort. Last but not least, its engine makes passengers' derma creep time and afresh acknowledgment to its accelerated and able response, its alarming free-revving character, and its clearly glottal tailpipes: five-cylinder classical music by Audi!
Compact and Lightweight: The Five-cylinder TFSI
As an uncompromising sports-car engine, the 2.5-liter TFSI is ultra-compact. Just 49 centimeters (19.29 inches) in length, it is alluringly ill-fitted for axle accession in the Audi TT RS. And its weight of just 183 kilograms (403.45 pounds) aswell sets a record. The crankcase is fabricated of vermicular-graphite casting iron. This high-tech actual unites the absolute in backbone with low weight; it has contrarily alone been acclimated for the ample TDI engines from Audi. Perfectly placed reinforcements enhance the block's loadability. The failing butt head, the pistons, and the abutting rod are failing as able-bodied as high-strength.
The ultra-powerful five-cylinder engine is acutely fuel-efficient, acute an boilerplate of just 9.2 liters/100 km [25.57 mpg] as commendations the Coupé (Roadster: 9.5 l/100 km [24.76 mpg]). Switchable flaps in the assimilation assorted mix the admission air in a affected configuration. Injected at a burden as top as 120 bar by the common-rail system, the gasoline swirls acutely in the agitation alcove - which in about-face cools the walls. This after facilitates a compression arrangement of 10.0:1, which is actual top for a turbocharged engine. Both of the adjustable camshafts, controlled via chains, aswell enhance charging ability with account to the air-fuel mixture.
The ample turbocharger generates up to 1.2 bar of accession pressure. The intercooler, fed air alluringly by the lower articulation of the individual anatomy radiator grille, reduces the temperature of aeroembolism air by over 80 percent at abounding load.
When an Audi TT RS disciplinarian pushes the accepted Sport button on the centermost tunnel, a accessory installed in the larboard bankrupt tailpipe renders the bankrupt babble even added able-bodied and acute while advocacy engine responsiveness. An alternative Sport bankrupt arrangement is accessible with matt atramentous tailpipe trims and complete flap.
For Purists: The Driveline
The Audi TT RS is the aboriginal archetypal sports car in the Audi RS family. Like the Audi RS4 and the Audi RS6, the Audi TT RS was developed by quattro GmbH as a pure, no-holds-barred active machine. A new six-speed chiral manual conveys the engine's amazing power, and permits simple and absolute operation acknowledgment to a distinctively advised about-face batten boasting decidedly abbreviate about-face travel. The transmission's defining characteristics are a top ability arrangement and a sportily attenuated advance of the accessory ratios.
The Audi TT RS appearance quattro abiding all-wheel drive as accepted equipment. Its affection lies at the rear axle: an electronically controlled, hydraulic multi-plate clutch. If a bearings calls for it, the clamp redirects a majority of the torque ascribe from the foreground auto to the rear wheels.
Within milliseconds, a able electrical pump in affiliation with an accumulator presses calm the clutch's plates via hydraulic pressure. Additions to the quattro powertrain cover a affiliated acceleration collective afore the ballista shaft and a bunched rear-axle cogwheel - both are able components.
The quattro drivetrain grants the Audi TT RS outstanding traction, alluring dynamics, and superb stability. Winding rural routes or some laps about a racetrack acquiesce the above administration to shine. The absolute and acknowledging steering, the direct reactions of the chassis, the neutrality at the cornering limit, the anchor while departure a curve, and - time and afresh - the engine's blood-tingling power: every mile in an Audi TT RS exudes the distilled aspect of sportiness.
High-tech Excellence from Audi: Anatomy and Body
The anatomy of the Audi TT RS builds on the cutting-edge foundation of the abject Audi TT design. The four-link rear suspension, which handles longitudinal and crabbed armament separately, plays a acute role. The electromechanical council is awful able and the ability council adjusts to the vehicle's speed. With aluminum in the foreground and area animate in the back, the body's avant-garde admixture of abstracts after-effects in a composed axle-load distribution, accomplished blast safety, and the outstanding acerbity which lays the cornerstone for the car's absolute handling.
The accepted sports chassis, which lowers the physique by 10 millimeters (0.39 inches), appearance deeply acquainted springs and shock absorbers. The alternative Audi alluring ride adaptive damping arrangement allows the disciplinarian to baddest one of two modes for the shock absorbers by artlessly blame the Sport button. Activating approach enables the Audi TT RS to hug the road; Comfort approach provides a abundantly counterbalanced ride absolute for continued journeys.
The sportiest adaptation in the TT archetypal band boasts 18-inch auto adapted with 245/45 tires. They are complemented by boss aerial disc brakes, which admeasurement 370 millimeters (14.57 inches) in bore at the foreground and 310 millimeters (12.20 inches) at the rear. So that calefaction dissipates quickly, the foreground abrasion rings are perforated. They, in turn, are affiliated by alveolate pins to the aluminum anchor discs, which are belted by atramentous four-piston anchor calipers fabricated of aluminum and address RS logos.
The Electronic Stabilization Program (ESP) can be switched off partially or entirely. In Sport mode, the engine does not arbitrate to adviser absorption and, correspondingly, the brakes appoint after than otherwise. In the additional mode, the ESP is absolutely deactivated.
The Face of Power: The Exterior
At just 4.20 meters (13.78 feet) in length, the agilely bunched Audi TT RS hints at its atomic abeyant from the actual aboriginal glimpse. The foreground addle-brain tapers bottomward into a splitter, evocative of a antagonism car. The ample and boxlike air inlets accept diamond-shaped inserts. And the high-gloss atramentous individual anatomy grille with a anatomy in matt aluminum attending and the TT RS brand buck the aforementioned styling. The xenon additional headlights with LED daytime active lights acquaint absent drivers that an Audi TT RS is approaching.
The abandon of the car are accentuated by ample auto in 5 twin-spoke design, active ancillary sills, and exterior-mirror casings in matt aluminum look. At the appendage end, the two ample egg-shaped bankrupt tailpipes - spaced afar - are belted by a diffuser insert. Here, too, is a TT RS badge. A anchored rear addle-brain is standard, admitting barter can opt for one which automatically extends and retracts. Acknowledgment to a annoyance accessory of just 0.3, the 2+2-seat coupé and the two-seat auto coast calmly through the wind. Audi offers the TT RS in eight colors. Among them are four absolute options: Daytona Gray, fair effect; Mugello Blue, fair effect; Sepang Blue, fair effect; and Suzuka Gray, metallic. The Audi TT RS Roadster's bendable top comes in atramentous or aphotic gray.
Exclusive Character: Autogenous and Accessories Packages
The activating exoteric of the Audi TT RS is akin by the interior. The covering multifunction sports council caster has an abnormally blubbery rim, is flat-bottomed, and is covered with perforated leather. Integrated in the apparatus panel, the disciplinarian advice arrangement can affectation accession burden and oil temperature as able-bodied as a lap timer for chronicling feats at the racetrack. The aperture handles abide of two abbreviate strips - archetypal of Audi RS models. An automated climate-control arrangement and the concert complete arrangement are standard, as are an electrohydraulic bendable top and an electric wind deflector for the Audi TT RS Roadster.
The absolute autogenous is black. The acrimonious sports seats affection an Alcantara/leather aggregate with argent allegory bond and arresting TT RS logos in the foreground backrests. Additional badges and logos arise on the council wheel, in the rev counter, and on the aperture axle trims. The inlays are fabricated from brushed aluminum. Floor mats affection argent brim trim; footrests and pedals are in aluminum look.
Audi offers TT RS barter a assorted ambit of alternative equipment: variably styled auto barometer 18, 19 or 20 inches in diameter; brazier seats with folding backrests; bench upholstery in Silk Nappa covering with perforations or Fine Nappa covering with appropriate TT perforations; inlays with Ibis White or Phantom Atramentous acrylic accomplishment as able-bodied as matt aluminum-look inlays for the exterior. In addition, there are high-tech aeronautics and multimedia systems available. Sales of the Audi TT RS activate in March 2009; deliveries are appointed to activate in the summer.
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