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?The Audi TTS may be the ultimate car to be built off VW?s MQB platform, but it still seems less targeted at fun-to-drive than drive-to-impress.??Jeff Sabatini, Features Editor
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The reason the TT gets no official love is because, well, fashion. The mass of American men lead lives of instinctively recoiling from conspicuous displays of design, especially design that calls attention to itself. It?s pretentious. It?s ostentatious. Even though we live in a century in which design has become necessary to teach us how to make use of the technological advances of the past 20 years, we are still suspicious of products that call attention to how well designed they are. Even though we?ve endured 15 years of cable TV (from Queer Eye for the Straight Guy to freaking Ryan Seacrest asking men what they?re wearing on the red carpet) teaching us that it?s okay to wear slim-fit trousers and a fitted suit jacket, here we still are, in untucked dress shirts and comfortable Levi?s.
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I admit that the TT makes a point of calling attention to itself. Before I drove it, I found its paint job to be a little, um, alienating. And my first impression, on falling into its driver?s seat, is that it?s awfully ­luxurious, a trait that I?m sure interferes with some drivers? sense that they are one with the road. And maybe its interior i...