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Officially Official (nearly): Audi TT clubsport quattro

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Click above for a high-res gallery of the TT clubsport quattro

Last year at the Wörthersee tour, VW and Audi threw red meat to the fans in the design of the Audi TT Clubsport quattro concept and the VW Golf GTI W12 650. Each was awesome in its own way, and now VW/Audi has set a precedent. For the Wörthersee 2008, Audi had already announced it would be bringing the A3 TDI clubsport quattro concept. nowadays, it drops shoe No. 2 by revealing a much more production-oriented version of the TT clubsport quattro. that is the same car that was spied out in the open final week. Officially, it’s still a concept. Realistically, you know this thing’s going into limited production.

The ‘08 edition of the TT clubsport chases in the ‘07 show car’s footprints. Like its forebear, it packs 300 horsepower underhood (presumably from a TFSI four). That juice is directed to all four wheels via quattro AWD with Audi S tronic (i.e. Audi-ese for DSG) handling shifts. Nineteen-inch wheels shod in 35-series rubber are tucked under the clubsport’s widebody kit. Up front, you’ll find DRLs and a blacked-out grille, while out back

you’ll find a diffuser integrated in the bumper. Speedster humps sit beside the roll hoops and the chopped windscreen incorporates little baby A-pillars to help create a near-wraparound look. That’s plus your giveaway that that is a production car — do you really think Audi would have bothered engineering a moment version with real pillars whether it didn’t plan on selling it? Inside, the black interior is accented with plenty of aluminum and orange leather accents.

At the end of its press release, Audi tells us “Small-series production of that model cannot be ruled out.” Well, duh, guys. You’ve just come out with a refined concept of a concept. You couldn’t telegraph that any more whether you wanted to. We look forward to seeing that Audified speedster redux in showrooms and the Autoblog carport at some date in the not-very-distant future.

Gallery: 2008 Audi TT clubsport concept