Published:
24 March 2015The fabric roof is heavily insulated and keeps wind noise to a subdued flutter over the windscreen when the hood is up, even at a fast cruise. Top-down, you get a fair bit of wind coming over the back deck, so it’s a shame the retractable wind deflector is a £425 option. Even so, you’re protected enough to be able to do a steady cruise without it getting uncomfortably blustery.
In short, with the help of the adaptive elements (steering weight, exhaust and throttle response as standard), the Audi TT will be at home on a tedious daily commute, just as it will deliver a back-road strop with no small amount of driver satisfaction.
The dashboard is a wondrously high-tech affair that is unchanged from the coupé, so you get the huge Audi Virtual Cockpit digital readout (as standard on all models) that fills the driver’s binnacle.
There are the essential dials as well as all your critical info, from nav (if you’ve added it), through to audio functions and the car’s systems. It takes a fair bit of getting used to, but it does become easier with familiarity.
Rear visibility is predictably hampered by the roof when it's up, too, so you'll be conscious of the fairly huge blind-spot to your rear three-quarters - something that's pretty par for the course with any soft-top.
The Roadster loses the comically tiny, uncomfortable back seats of the coupe, making way for an enclosed area into which the roof neatly tucks itself. While this means you’ve got less storage space, it also allows for a useful 280 litres of boot space (down from 305 litres in the tin-top), which will be more than enough for normal daily use.
