Forget me not
BBC Top Gear UK|August 2023
AUDI TT ICONIC EDITION
Vijay Patni
Forget me not

Here is a car that celebrates one of Audi's very finest designs and the less is more philosophy it proudly exhibits. In 2023, the TT marks a quarter century of service having first burst onto the scene in 1998 with one of Ingolstadt's most alluring shapes.

Which is of course why this special edition features motorsport inspired aero addenda bolted onto every visible flank. Perhaps we don't understand Bauhaus after all.

For the record, the 'Aerokit' as Audi calls it, has been honed in a wind tunnel and is comprised of a lot of new pieces: a new front apron with side flicks, a new splitter, new blades in the front air intakes, gloss black side skirts, an RS-specific rear diffuser, a pair of exhaust pipes and a fixed carbon rear wing.

This story is from the August 2023 edition of BBC Top Gear UK.

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