JE Design intros Audi TT 8J body kit
JE Design has gone and messed with the Audi TT. The changes are subtle, which is good, because it's hard to improve upon the TT's form. The JE kit will surely draw mixed reviews, though we like that their kit still lets what's good about the car shine. There's new pieces for the chin spoiler in front, adding strange little vents at the leading edge of the wheel opening. We can't imagine that they actually serve any purpose – perhaps they vent heat from the foglamps? We're sure that's a common problem. The requisite overly-large, overly-low-profile tires are there, but the benefit of the bigger rolling stock is left unrealized. We see puny (puny's such a relative term) brakes hiding out behind the wheels. The only functional point behind ultra-low profile rubber and rims beyond 17" is to fit as much brake rotor diameter as possible under there, and what we're seeing is plenty of extra clearance around everything. And apparently twin exhaust outlets do not a fast car make; they've been superceded by quad tips. The smooth rear decklid has had a lip spoiler applied to add some downforce. What the spoiler really does is add a pimple to the ass of an otherwise smooth form. The stock pop-up spoiler gets in the game to add downforce, and when it's retracted, you're not going fast enough to need any extra drag. It'll look real racy in traffic at an average speed of 15mph, though.
[Source: JE Design]
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jj 5:48PM (3/21/2007)
Looks good, but do something about the performance. The TT already was all show no go. Freaking Miata can kick its butt for half the price. S2000 or Boxster S? Fahgetaboutit.
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DPC car videos 7:06PM (3/21/2007)
Those heavy looking wheels probably make this car even slower, but looks good.
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Cheezedog 10:21PM (3/21/2007)
Nice looking car...It reminds me of the secound generation Mitsubish Eclipses on so many levels... First off... It looks exsactly like what a little two person car should. The Available AWD system with turbo is great to have if you plan to build up the car... And the S tronic gear box is F1 nifty...
But the big failure of this car its still over-priced compaired to its compation, badly marketed, and terribly to try and tune up... (unlike the Secound Generation of Mitsubish Eclipses which where easily tuneable powerhouses.)
A WRX STI, (which is a world class performance bar admitedly,) runs circles around this pig, carries more people, & cargo around, has much better reliablity, a excellent safty rating, And still costs less then the base model, (that has none of the performance advantages that even a basic WRX has for even less money.) If you put a WRX next to a Evolution, and its not anywhere as easily to decide who comes out victorious...
On top of that, you can't get a turbo motor with a stick shift transmission, attached to a AWD system. The failure to bring to market such a combination presents a huge challange when it comes to tuning... (its much easyer to turbo tune a car with a turbo, and its much easier for a car to plant all the extra power from tuning through a AWD system.) (This is why its stupid to tune up Honda Civics, and Chevy Cavaliers, and Awesome to tune Subaru RS.)
Of course.. all falts this car has, would easily be forgiven if they could make this car more price competive against a WRX or a Pontiac Solstice.
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Carletti 12:23AM (3/22/2007)
It doesn't make much sense is my feeling of it. The spoiler on the front is extremely cheap in feel and actually devalues the TT is what it does. About the only thing I think is pleasant is the minimal rear with the pipes. In addition, the noxious wheels on this TT do not belong on a car of the TT's supposed stature. But the design of the new TT has already turned itself into a gimmick in terms of placing form over function and so these types of kits seem only logical in occurrence.
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