Category: Affordable Sports 
Price Range: £25,420 to £42,985
Stylish looks, brilliant interior, Audi solidity and sky-high image
Not as engaging as a Porsche Boxster or newer rivals
Fabulously distinctive, the TT is one of the most desirable cars of the last decade
The TT made it from concept car to production reality with barely a change to its bold Bauhaus minimalist curves and impeccably detailed interior, and although it's now a familiar sight, it still looks absolutely fantastic. Buyers may now be distracted by the likes of the Nissan 350Z, Mazda RX-8 and the Porsche Cayman - all three more involving to drive - but the TT is nonetheless a great car to drive and own.
Available as a two-seater roadster or a coupe with tiny rear seats, it comes with the 1.8T engine in 150bhp (roadster only, with front-wheel drive), 180bhp and 225bhp forms (roadster or coupe, with quattro four-wheel drive), or with the 250bhp 3.2 V6, as fitted in the Golf R32.
It also includes Audi's new DSG Direct Shift Gearbox - an automatic 'box with sequential-shift mode - which is wonderfully responsive either in fully-auto mode or high-revving sports mode.
There's also the sports-tuned 240bhp quattro Sport Coupe, which is a little lighter and has modified suspension. The TT may have humble underpinnings, sharing many components with the Golf and other mainstream VW Group models, and it may have been around for a few years now, but when it still looks this good, who cares? A new-generation model was launched 2007.
