The Audi TT RS is the last of a line of iconic sports cars
We review the last, and most high-performance, iteration of a German design classic. Will it live up to its iconic status among motoring aficionados"
It is likely that at sometime in the midterm future, the vision of our tech rulers in Silicon Valley will come true and cars with a longer be personalised transportation, but rather another form of public transport. Your self-driving electric car will not be yours at all, but will arrive and take you to your destination, before moving on to someone else. No more streets lined with parked cars: cars will be in constant use.
There are obvious attractions to this concept, but one negative is the lack of ownership. As well as being a piece of property, a car has always been a statement about the kind of person you are. Are you functional, flashy, flamboyant, drab" Follow LUX on Instagram: luxthemagazine
A car has also always been a signifier of class, whether or not we want it to be. Some manufacturers’ products were aligned with the working classes (or ?masses? as Karl Marx put it). Other brands, not necessarily more expensive, might suggest you are an architect, a designer, an intellectual.
All of that will stop when our new future comes into play, just as a collection of LP records as a signifier of what kind of taste you have is irrelevant in the era of music streaming.
Which takes us to the Audi TT. Like its little cousin the VW Golf, it?s one of thos...