Category: Affordable Sports 
Price Range: £25,420 to £42,985
Explosive performance, all-wheel-drive traction, added visual menace, 2.5-litre engine's sound.
Not quite involving enough, concerns over stiff ride, awful rear spoiler, tasteless styling details.
Audi's baby R8 outguns all its rivals against the clock but ultimately misses out on the levels of engagement delivered by competitors.
In the battle of the used values the TT is winning.
After the usual three years and 60,000 miles, residual experts Cap predict, the Audi will claw back a class-leading 49% of its new value. This compares well with the lowly 43% a Porsche Cayman returns and the dismal 39% a poor Mercedes SLK will achieve at resale.
