2017 Audi TT TDI now available with quattro AWD

The Audi TT range is getting extended in the UK with the arrival of a quattro AWD version of the 2.0 litre TDI, complete with S tronic twin-clutch auto.

It’s getting on for three years since the current Audi TT was revealed at the Geneva Motor Show in 2014, and it’s taken that long for Audi to decide to offer this, the 2.0 litre TDI with quattro AWD with power driven to all four wheels through a six-speed, dual-clutch automatic gearbox.

The move to offer Audi’s famed quattro drive with the cheaper, and more frugal, 2.0 litre TDI is doubtless a sound marketing one, but we do wonder why, when the quattro drive is such a big deal for winter driving, that Audi announce it will be open for orders in January with first customer cars arriving in the spring. Just as the slippery weather goes away.

Audi hasn’t come up with a price for the TT 2.0 TDI quattro (it probably depends on what happens to the Pound and whether the Euro survives the winter), but it comes with the same 181bhp and 290lb/ft of torque as the FWD TT, although it gest the six-speed S tronic ‘box instead of the six-speed manual of the front-wheel drive cars.

Audi say the new TT Coupé 2.0 TDI quattro S tronic gets to 62mph in 6.7 seconds with official economy of 54.3mpg, and the Roadster in 7.0 seconds with 52.3mpg.

Just what the world needs – another Audi diesel.