EBay Motors Catch of The Day > Audi TT

Filed in archive on January 17, 2007

Gunnar! Please spell Bauhaus.

Right, "Bauhaus"

"A" "U" "D" "I" "T" "T"

"Bauhaus"

Very good.

And it really is. Yes, the first generation Audi TT did share its platform with a VW Golf. And no, I don't care if the three door coupé couldn't handle worth a tinker's darn. It actually handled very well, just not well enough for all those pseudo-race car drivers that fill the print pages of the world's automotive mags with their self-important, nothing's-as-good-as-BMW carping.

This Bauhaus design on wheels is to be appreciated for what it is - an instant, thoroughly forward looking classic. When the TT premiered in the late 1990s, it showed the most conservative of the Teutonic big-three was also the most daring. Automotordom is full of these paradoxes - as it is in life.

This 2003 looks well preserved. S'got 52K on the clock. Manual trans. Priced to sell @ $19K. Life's good.