Fast, safe and a load of fun.

I?d read about the stablity issues afflicting early TT?s (see side-bar) and since most of the test was conducted in the wet (thankfully it let up for our performance testing) I was petrified of turning the ESP switch off. It?ll be pretty clear to anybody with a sensitive back side that this is a very short and wide car running on fat tyres generating a lot of grip and if you exceed said grip levels things will probably go wrong very quickly indeed. So left, I did, the ESP switch alone and probably so should you.

Not that ESP plays spoilsport. The threshold at which big electronic brother cuts isn?t likely to be reached by any sane person on the road so if you see that yellow triangle blinking you probably ought to take things a little easy.
On the road the TT stays flat even under hard cornering and the direct and responsive steering is delightfully communicative and talks to you like few cars can. Roll is minimal and she maintains a neutral attitude before drifting into controllable understeer.
Keeping in with the sports car attitude the damping is firm but I was surprised by how well she handled small undulations and bumps. And with the ultra-short overhangs and small wheelbase scraping over speed-breakers was never an issue. A remarkably well damped car considering the depth of her abilities when confronted by the twisty stuff.