L.A. Times' Dan Neil Reviews the New TT

We had the pleasure of hanging with Dan Neil last year at Le Mans. The Pulitzer -winning auto writer for the 'Times is a complete trip, waxing away over lunch about the use of guns to fend of drug dealers to posing for photos in the middle of the vast Le Mans circuit press room wearing his complimentary Audi 24 Hour of Le Mans bathrobe and Audi flip flops as a shot for his blog. Dan's a trip, so anything by him suggests plenty of entertainment value. It's with great interest then that we caught a review this week on the new TT by the LA writer. Check it out here...

Quote »With the second-generation and redesigned TT (out since late 2006), the matter has become more complex. We know the car is supremely hip. But are you, Mr. and Mrs. Consumer, hip enough? Take this test:
* Have you ever referred to a sidewalk as "contested space"?
* Do your eyeglasses have cantilevers?
* Do you use the word "ascendancy" when you mean "up"?
* Do you have framed lithographs of the work of Étienne-Louis Boullée on your office wall?
* Do you consider any room above ground floor a loft? * Are two or more of your children named Dieter?

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