Audi TT facelift for 2010 / 2011

Audi's slightly nipped and tucked 2010/2011 Auid TT

Audi are nipping and tucking the TT for 2010 (2011MY) and throwing in a new 4-pot engine. The facelifeted TT will bow in at the Leipzig Motor Show in Germany later this month.

The Audi TT – formerly the hairdressers favourite car to mince around town – became a proper sports car when the latest TT hit showrooms. Even the soft top performed properly, and the Audi TT RS was – and is – a mini Audi R8. So having got so much right with the latest TT – and having got so much wrong first time out – Audi have been understandably understated with tweaks to the TT. But tweaks there are – certainly enough to consider this a mid-cycle facelift for the TT.

Styling changes will probably need an eye that knows the current TT intimately. The grill gets a glossy black finish and the air intakes grow in size on the front. Until now it was just the TT RS that got the daytime LEDs, but these now find their way on to the whole range.

At the back there are even more modest tweaks with a new diffuser, slightly modified lights and new tail pipes. The interior gets a very light makeover with some new bits of ali trim, new colour options and leather that resists solar heat.

The big change – although even that’s not earth shattering – is the introduction of a new 2.0-litre TFSI four-cylinder engine which offers a rather modest extra 11 horses (now 211). But throw in Audi’s Valvelift system and the torque jumps by a very healthy 51lb/ft giving performance of mid 5 seconds to 60mph coupled with economy averaging 42.8mpg.

The 2010 / 2011 Audi TT gets rolled out at the Leipzig Motor Show later this montha nd will hit Audi showrooms in the UK in the Summer. No prices yet, but more detail in the 2010 Audi TT press release.