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.
Audi finished a decent seventh place in the most recent 2008 JD Power survey behind Mercedes and Jaguar.
The TT specifically didn't feature in the survey, but built on a policy of parts-sharing there's nothing to say the sporty Audi coupe shouldn't be no more or less reliable than an A3.
Nowadays, that's a good thing because the first generation of TT suffered from the odd faulty electrical faults and failing instrument panels.
Until the RS arrived the TT, like many other Audis, led the class for fit and finish and the quality of its cabin, but at almost £10,000 more than the next most expensive TT, is the RS outshone by new similarly priced competition?
Not at all. It's a credit to Audi's choice of high quality materials and beautiful build that the TT is still pick of the bunch even at this rather hefty price. To help justify the extra cash the RS gains plenty of brushed aluminium inlays, RS logos and heated leather seats plus a sportier, flat-bottomed steering wheel.
