Audi Tt: The Complete Story

Good history on the creation of TT. A good book to keep and read for all TT Mk1 lovers.

Lots of good information on the history and specifications of the Audi TT. I liked the book and keep it in my library.

This booklet tells the full story about Audi TT in a way that gives me, as an owner deep insight knowledge on a car that truly has become an design icon in car history.A must have book, if you own a TT!

Starting with background on Audi and moving into the TT design and development, it is a complete story. covers the first three most important years of this car.

I wasn't entirely sure about getting this book, because of some negative comments. But I'm glad I ignored the latter, and bought it.The Audi TT really is one of the great post-war sportscar designs, up there somewhere with the 1961 E-type Jaguar in terms of its visual impact and the 'wow' factor. The author writes objectively, and not as a biased fan. If anything, the text is slightly conservative; the book was published in 2002 and he avoids gushing over what was at the time, and unquestionably, a sensational product which was receiving an unusually strong and positive market - as well as cultural - response. That said, he does cover aspects of the latter, which are a useful if unavoidably brief record of how the car was seen in the early days.A great deal of information is given about the development of the TT, from the start of the design process what was being done some 8 years later in 2002, by which over 100,000 examples had been sold. Funnily enough, even the section on 'how to clean your car' told me something I didn't know, so the book was probably worth getting for that alone.Is this the 'ultimate' book on a late 20th century design icon? Frankly, no. Such a publication will presumably come some time in the future, when the motoring historians will be better able to contextualise it. Writing about the TT in 2002 was unavoidably too early for that. To be more comprehensive, it would be necessary to include production numbers of each model by year, the chassis number sequences, the body colours and interior combinations, details of the manufacturer's brochures, and so on. But despite not having such details (and of course 2002 would have been way too early to give such details anyway) I think few people even now would read the book and think it was substantially incomplete.Being out of print, buying this book can prove rather expensive because of limited supply. Putting that thorny issue to one side, my assessment is that, as a book, it does the job and it does it surprisingly well.

初代TTの誕生とモデル概略をまとめた、教科書的な書籍です。NSU-TT、Quattro-Spyderなど、初代TTに至る歴史が語られ、そしてデザインコンセプトと完成へのプロセスを知ることが出来ます。恐らく（関連書籍を除けば）1995年のモーターショーでのプレスリリースキットのみに挿入された、デザインスケッチも見ることが出来ます。 また終盤は、円をモチーフとしたデザインの派生など、トピックスが並びます。惜しむらくは、もっとカラーページが多かったら…。カタログでも写真集でもありませんが、デザインを語るべきモデルであればこそ。オーナーの方はコレクションとしてもどうぞ。

アウディーＴＴの、初期の開発モデルから、Ｓ仕様の発展型、タルガトップ等、ＴＴ好きの方には、たまらない内容となっています。同様の他書が現在、入手難なので、唯一の資料と言えると思います。価格についてもハードカバーの洋書としては、異例の安さです。英文で書かれていますが、写真、イラストを観るだけでも十分楽しめます。巻末の日本車との関わりについては、笑えます。