Audi Elise... but not as you know it

tut · Post by **tut** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 4:36 pm

Verian has an Audi TT 225 Roadster, and though it is no Elise, there is a lot of crap talked about its handling.

I would happily join in on a road run with all but the usual suspects if I did not have the Elise available, and I reckon it/we would hold our own.

I bought an ECU from eBay some time ago for peanuts, switchable between 250 and 300hp, from the Jonathon Palmer race series car, but never got around to trying it yet, probably because it is Verians baby and I would be castrated if I screwed it up.

tut

Tom · Post by **Tom** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 4:39 pm

tut wrote:Verian has an Audi TT 225 Roadster, and though it is no Elise, there is a lot of crap talked about its handling.

I would happily join in on a road run with all but the usual suspects if I did not have the Elise available, and I reckon it/we would hold our own.

I bought an ECU from eBay some time ago for peanuts, switchable between 250 and 300hp, from the Jonathon Palmer race series car, but never got around to trying it yet, probably because it is Verians baby and I would be castrated if I screwed it up.

tut

Oh NOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

what have i done???????

(picks up phone to travel agents)

jj · Post by jj » Mon Jul 24, 2006 4:44 pm

I am with tut on this one, 225 isnt slow when rolling, and mind the TT at the Brunty night (John?) wasnt a sluch either.

Tom · Post by **Tom** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 4:49 pm

Just like to clear up that i know absolutely nothing about the TT, except it looks a bit like a squashed, streched beetle(the car).

(digs hole a bit deeper....

)

Post by **Shug** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 4:49 pm

jke11y wrote:I am with tut on this one, 225 isnt slow when rolling, and mind the TT at the Brunty night (John?) wasnt a sluch either.

Underpinnings exactly the same as Elaine's S3 - can confirm (after giving it the berries on the Douglas Road from M74) it's no slouch

Steering is a job of trust through - no feel from the front, but bags of grip (when you trust it) Nice feeling burying the nose into a corner and planting it, to feel the 4WD shuffle, pulling the front out....

jj · Post by jj » Mon Jul 24, 2006 4:51 pm

Yup, driven a mates S3 and a TT and know what you mean about the trust part, you kind of dont really know whats going on but it does grip.

Victor Meldrew · Post by **Victor Meldrew** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 4:53 pm

Shug wrote:
jke11y wrote:I am with tut on this one, 225 isnt slow when rolling, and mind the TT at the Brunty night (John?) wasnt a sluch either.
Underpinnings exactly the same as Elaine's S3 - can confirm (after giving it the berries on the Douglas Road from M74) it's no slouch

Steering is a job of trust through - no feel from the front, but bags of grip (when you trust it) Nice feeling burying the nose into a corner and planting it, to feel the 4WD shuffle, pulling the front out....

I think the 4WD Audis are very under rated, just because the may be a bit soft on the steering response. My big lardy ass S6 Avant can lap KH in 65 secs.. not bad for a two ton uberwagen driven by an amature.

Sanjøy · Post by **Sanjøy** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 4:55 pm

jsut think what it could have been like if the binned the 4*4 and made it rwd.

Victor Meldrew · Post by **Victor Meldrew** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 4:58 pm

Sanjoy wrote:jsut think what it could have been like if the binned the 4*4 and made it rwd.

Give me 4WD over rear wheel drive anyday, for a normal day to day car. It IS significantly safer the RWD.

Bada Bing! · Post by **Bada Bing!** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 5:01 pm

The_Rossatron wrote:
Sanjoy wrote:Company as big as VAG build a widow maker ? Not likely.
The old TT was nicknamed that for a while

No it was called a window licker.

Post by **Shug** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 5:06 pm

Sanjoy wrote:jsut think what it could have been like if the binned the 4*4 and made it rwd.

Yup, sh*t....

The car is designed around front wheel drive and a clever diff transfers drive to the rear...

I love the hoonery abilities of my old RWD Merc, but litigation Britain has turned any modern RWD saloon into an over-electroniced understeering mess. The only hope for current saloons to have any cornering poise is 4WD

Betcha a fiver that the new M3 (when it finally graces us) won't be a patch on the last one for hoonery....

BM were our last hope - but I fear they are going to go the way of Merc in dumbing down RWD

GregR · Post by **GregR** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 5:10 pm

not sure shig - you still get 500hp in RWD format on an M5.

As for that TT roadster - it looks feck all like the TT coupe reviewed in EVO - can't see them face-lifting a different model of the same car

PS - noticed I've spelt shug wrong there... but I kinda like it

mac · Post by **mac** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 5:14 pm

GregR wrote:not sure shig - you still get 500hp in RWD format on an M5.

As for that TT roadster - it looks feck all like the TT coupe reviewed in EVO - can't see them face-lifting a different model of the same car

PS - noticed I've spelt shug wrong there... but I kinda like it

Yeah - but only providing you ask for the full monty and there's a boot load of electrics keeping you out of the verge. That to me is the most satisfying thing about driving the elise* it's the fact that I'm keeping it on the island to a pc whirling away in the engine compartment

Mac

* I am aware that newer Elise/Exige have a traction control option.

Post by **Shug** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 5:17 pm

GregR wrote:not sure shig - you still get 500hp in RWD format on an M5.

....As long as you have the MSc in Computing to unlock it..... Then to take off the TC.... Then you have a silly automatic clutch/flappy paddle thing to use as they can't built a real gearbox to handle the torque.....

GregR · Post by **GregR** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 5:19 pm

balls to the pair of you - the MSc referred to is pressing the 'M' button on the wheel.

Sheesh - oldies...

best of luck to you unleashing 500 horses without the TC on too