Next-generation Audi TT RS Will Happily Relieve You of Shifting Duties

Mark Stevenson
by Mark Stevenson

When the next Audi TT RS arrives in the U.S. in 2017 (and earlier elsewhere), it will be so advanced that you won’t even have the option of “shifting gears” in a “manual” fashion.

Isn’t it nice of Audi to make that decision for us? Decisions — like coordination — are pretty difficult, after all.

Car & Driver is reporting the TT RS won’t be available with a manual gearbox. At all. Anywhere. Instead, the sole cog-swapper will be of the DSG variety with seven forward ratios. That’s interesting considering the current car was a manual-only affair in the U.S. If you wanted an automatic, you were forced to step down to the lesser S model.

The new TT RS is expected to arrive with 400 horsepower, an improvement over the current car’s 360 horses, by way of another turbocharged, 2.5-liter five-cylinder engine.

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  • Fli317 Fli317 on Jul 20, 2015

    I agree with DenverMike. If no stick is offered, and thats what you want, then either keep the MT you have or buy from a manufacturer willing to sell one. And there are plenty of MT cars out there that would be neat cars with a little refurbishing. Even high end cars are available this way, ie. Singer Porsches. If the big automakers can't recognize this, they lose some business.

  • DenverMike DenverMike on Jul 21, 2015

    It's about the driving experience, not 0-60, so I'll take the downgrade model or move on to something else with a stick. What do they think this is??

    • Corey Lewis Corey Lewis on Jul 24, 2015

      They think it's a car for women with money to put their purse in. And they're right!

  • Tfdpny Tfdpny on Jul 21, 2015

    Is this some kind of sustained campaign by TTAC regarding manuals? I like a good manual as much as the next B&B, but I don't think we need to have editorial everytime a new model comes out sans MT. That's just going to get tiresome, along with all the J-nik style QOTDs lately. I don't post much but I've read every post every day for the last 3.5 years.

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    • DenverMike DenverMike on Jul 21, 2015

      @sportyaccordy Yes our boycott of auto-only sporty cars has to be laughable to the OEMs, but still, *hats off* to those that do stick-only top performance models. Those are limited-editions anyways (ZR1, GT500, Boss 302, etc), with fairly high demand and short sell-days (except for the ZR1).

  • Dantes_inferno Dantes_inferno on Jul 21, 2015

    And the dumbing down and wussification of the automobile continues...

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