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- Audi is a German car manufacturer
that's short for Volkswagen.
Audi is known for its
modern luxury and cool headlights,
but that's not all.
They also have some deep roots
in rally and racing MC Motorsports.
Audi has made a ton of cool cars,
(brakes screech) The TT not being one of them.
Like Janet Jackson in the Super Bowl 38,
this titty popped out of nowhere in 1998,
but it wasn't Justin Timberlake's fault, I think.
The first generation Tata had an original MSRP
of $30,000 and $500.
After heavy market analysis,
I calculated you could buy 15,326
cheesy potato grillers from Taco Glocke
That may seem like a steep price but don't worry.
For that 30 grand you get 180 horsepower
which is enough to compete with a Chevrolet.
(farts)
You think the TT would stand
for like twin turbo or something related to the car
but it actually is a nod to the Isle of Man TT
motorcycle race which makes sense.
This car looks like a bubble but who cares.
Today we sit down with an owner and have a good old chat,
driver to driver.
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And don't forget wheels, tires,
suspension from fitmentindustries.com
you know plug it in your computer.
Anyways we're here with Riley,
or I'm not really sure he kind of looks like Apolo Ohno
and you got Olympic shirt on.
- Yeah, it's missing a few circles.
- Do you have an innie or an Audi?
- An Audi. - Okay.
- Yeah. - All right.
Well let's not beat around the bush,
how much did you pay for that dirty bubble?
- Originally $8,500 but I ended up selling it.
- Cool. - And buying it
back for $4,000.
- Okay, let's break that down.
Wait, wait, so whoa, whoa.
$8,500 the first time and then $4,000 the second time?
- Right.
- All right so there's a story in there, what's going on?
- I sold the car. - Why?
(police sirens) - I was getting pulled
over a lot and I impulse bought another car
and I couldn't afford both of them at the time.
- Dang. - I sold one.
- Damn. - Yeah.
- You got pulled over so much
in a TT that you had to sell it?
- 32 times.
- What? (gasps) 32. - Yeah.
- How many tickets out of the 32 times, you know?
- Two, only two tickets.
- Oh that's pretty good, you're pretty smooth with the cops.
- Yeah, you know.
- Must be the hairdo.
- Low cut shirts.
- Bought, too many tickets, sold it,
and then just recently bought it back?
- Yeah, yeah. - Cool.
And then, that's way cheaper
but we'll get into that. (beep)
I know you hadn't asked for in between
selling it and buying it and doing all that kind of stuff.
- Mhm. - Was that a better car?
Did you miss cutting your hair,
cutting people's hair or something?
(exhales)
- In some ways the S4 is a better car.
The S4 was newer.
- Yeah. - A little bit nicer,
more comfortable but it was limited on the things
that I could do to it as far as like
what I like to do to cars.
- So what could you do to a TT
that you couldn't do to an S4?
- Strip the entire interior, do aftermarket seats
and trunk delete,
rear seat delete. - So I mean technically
you could do that and that's--
- I could but I just.
I didn't want to ruin the value.
- They have pretty nice interiors.
- Yeah, yeah.
- Yeah I could see that.
So you had something really nice,
you're like this is too nice,
I want something (beep) so I could work on it.
- Right. - Okay that makes.
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I know some of the early model TTs got
pretty sketchy at high speeds and tried to kill people,
did yours every try to kill you?
- No, not directly.
- You were speeding a lot?
- Right, I was speeding a lot.
No so they actually fix it with the low wing
on the back. - That's what fixed it?
- Yeah so-- - Really?
- Yeah before they didn't have that wing
and people would like merge lane
on the freeway. - Yeah yeah.
- And they would just like flip.
Right it was wild
and then they're like let's put this two inch,
plastic wing on the back and we'll be set.
- That's all it took huh?
- Right well hopefully.
- Okay. (static)
So, how's the TT community?
How are all them folk doing?
- It's small and European.
- Are the RS like the TT RS, are they the popular kids?
- Yeah, so they're like the guys where you're like,
"Yeah I got a TT."
and they're like "Oh cool, what year RS do you have?"
and you're like "Ahh, it's not."
- Oh - And they're like "Oh."
- Oh, I know. - See, yeah see ya later.
- That sucks. - But they, I mean
they know what they're doing.
- Well it sounds like they made a car
that would crash without a little wing,
I don't know how much they know what they're doing.
Let's take a break from my burning questions
and go over to our extremely cool
and loyal YouTube community.
All right, you ready to hear from the people?
- Absolutely. (trumpet music)
- All right, Jerric Castro is curious and asked
"How's the reliability and maintenance?"
- Not bad, the 18 turbos are fairly reliable.
Do your timing pump.
(farts)
Or timing pump. - Timing pump.
- Timing pump and water belt. (laughing)
- Johnny asked, "Did you jump up and down in excitement
"when you got your sisters high school car?"
- Yes.
- Perfect, TheZooness is jealous and he says
"Never owned one, always had a soft spot for them,
"what's the biggest pro and con
"for ownership now?"
- The biggest pro would be how fun they are to drive.
The biggest con is that it looks like a Beetle.
- (laughs) That's true and you can pull the wing off
and it gets real fun and squirrely to drive.
- Right. - All right,
Jordan Hernandez wants to know
"How many people do you notice
"punching each other because they mistook
"your Audi for a VW Beetle?"
- I've seen it actually like two times.
and it was, it was pretty hilarious.
It makes me feel good.
- That's probably one of the best cars
to own for punching people.
- Inflicting pain on others. - Yeah.
- OffBeat Production says,
You all think you're funny calling them Beetles
but that's only one of it's vag brother.
Y'all don't like mentioning it almost looks like
big brother Porsche too.
Hmm, bet that hushed y'all up a bit.
Next thing you need to check yourself on
is until you drive one is the snow,
you don't know anything about fake quattro
'cause we TT quattro drivers and 4x4 trucks
are the only ones safely making it to work.
Last thing is all of you hating on it are dudes,
meaning while you're laughing
your girl is admiring
and trust me she is.
I've never had a car draw more women to it like this car.
All the things you say about it
are roundabout ways of calling it a masculine chick car
and I love the fact
that it is 'cause it's manly
but still turns the ladies heads.
Does your Civic do that?
No, only dudes stare?
Hmm, oh well sorry for your luck #PassengerSeatNeverEmpty
#neverlose.
(farts)
- Yup.
- Hey, is this thing on?
Well I got the deals for you.
I'm here with hey Jophie, come here,
Jophie, get on over here.
Tell the people about the deals we got going on (mumbles).
- Yeah all right so we got three pieces of apparel,
you buy, buy some.
- I don't know - Every $5 gets a
entry in to win.
Pick up a t-shirt, pick up a hoodie,
you can pick up a windbreaker.
- All right, hey go away!
All right that's enough!
Yeah (mumbles) you could go pick this up
fitmentindustries.com go do it!
There's a bunch of cool apparel!
You could win three piece for free.
Anyways, Eddie Casp wants a comparison, asks
"How does it feel compared to a Toyota 86 or Subaru BRZ?"
- BRZs, it's pretty similar.
They handle pretty similarly.
(car cruising) - I think the 86 is better
on a track. - Really?
- Yeah absolutely.
I mean they're quattro but they're not.
It's a Haldex so it's not like true All Wheel Drive.
- Sure.
- And you know with the BRZ how much oversteer they have?
They're just a little bit better around the track,
a little bit faster.
- So why not go with BRZ?
- Because the engines are awful.
- Oh what about that 4S?
- Yeah, well I mean it's the same engine.
- Okay.
- Yeah. - What about the GT 86?
- Yeah, you know.
- Oh, they're all the same car - Pretty similar, right.
- Gotcha, all right, okay.
- Sorry just.
- So I know you definitely have put
some paper money into this thing,
what do you all have done?
- So it's currently got a Franken FT23 turbo kit.
With some RS6 internals in it.
- Oh. - Which is pretty nutty.
- Hell yeah. - And it's essentially
just pretty much everything a little bit
of everything fueling, got B injectors,
a high pressure fuel rail.
- Okay. - A front mount
full catalyst exhaust catalyst downpipe.
It's on airlift 3P.
- Oh - It's got some TSW Mallorys
17x8+35.
- Nice. - Federal tires.
- Okay.
- And yeah, I mean some of the goodies like interior stuff.
- So you've done a lot to it?
- Yeah. - What you making for power?
- With the new turbo that's gonna go in,
probably right around 320 wheel.
- So using my math,
you probably need a little bit bigger wing on the back.
- Maybe, I guess we'll find out.
- I mean if it starts to fly.
- What? - You know.
If it starts to pick up and fly.
- Well then you won't do that.
- Yeah. - Make it crash.
Then it's back to square one.
- True. - No we're crashing it again.
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So do you honestly,
from the bottom of your heart,
feel like it was worth putting that much money
into a TT?
- So it had some stuff done
to it when I bought it.
- Okay. - So not everything
was done with me.
I had like 10, 11 thousand into it now.
- So more than you paid for it?
- Right, not to mention what the previous owner
had put into it.
I think it's kind of worth it.
I just try not to think about it, you know?
- Kind of worth it? - Right.
- Have you had any issues with it?
- Yeah. - Uh oh.
- The turbo went out. - Uh oh.
- That's part of the reason why I got it back so cheap.
- Uh oh. - The--
- So wait, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Back up, all right, so you had the car,
it was all fine and dandy, you loved it,
you're going squirrely,
you're flying around on the highway, getting pulled over.
- Right. - And you sell it.
Dude blows it up and you're like
"Okay I'll buy it back"
- Yeah.
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- Why did you do that?
- (laughs) So he didn't blow it up,
the turbo just kind of went to crap
and I missed it and I kind of reached out to him
and I was like "Would you be interested in selling it back?"
and he said "Yeah."
- Well yeah, I would be too I mean (mumbles)
(beep) this thing.
- And I knew what it needed to be fixed
and it wasn't that much and it was worth it to me
so, yeah, bought it back.
- So you have big plans for it?
- Yeah I got some stuff coming,
been stockpiling parts all winter,
just slowly adding to it.
- Well yeah, with everything you put into it,
you could damn near have an R8 at this point.
(ding) What about that?
(heart beats) All right.
- Yeah. - Is there any other car
you'd like to own besides the TT?
- Yeah, I mean there's a long list.
- So what are the top two?
- TT RS. (tires squeal)
- Okay. - The 8J.
- Oh, I'm going to be honest,
TT RS is kind of cool. - Right.
- (mumbles) - Right.
And then, R8 is obviously on the list.
(ding) I'm a--
- You're a big Audi guy?
- Yeah big Audi guy. - And Olympic guy?
- Yeah. - Okay.
- Yup. - All right.
Do you have any advice for someone
thinking about getting an Audi TT?
- Don't rice it out.
- That's good advice. - Yeah.
- That came from the heart.
- Right, lower it because they're ugly.
- Don't raise it, lower it because it's ugly
and make sure you have plastic wing.
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Thank you for Apolo Ohno for letting us
make fun of this bubble here, that's your car
and don't forget wheels, tires, suspension,
fitmentindustries.com
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- Hey that's my line.
How long do you wave for?
- Like five seconds - Oh okay, I'll stop
doing it, my bad.
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