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Sportbackpeddling: New Report Casts Doubts on Four Door TT Rumors

Audi will not produce a four-door TT Sportback, according to a new report from Australia’s CarAdvice. The claim is in direct opposition to a report last week from Auto Express, claiming that the four-door would replace the coupe altogether.

CarAdvice spoke to Peter Oberndorfer, Audi’s head of communications, at an A1 launch event in Spain and asked him about the four-door TT.

“I think the TT is an icon, and to do a family [car] out of that is quite difficult,” he said. “You have to concentrate more and more and think about what you can do and what can afford. So we’re quite happy with one TT at the moment.”

Oberndorfer admitted that Audi had considered spinning the TT family out into a family of cars—hence the TT Sportback concept—but dropped that idea a while ago.

Citing the times, in which Audi has to develop gas, diesel, and electric cars, Oberndorfer indicated that the idea hasn’t been revived.

“Where the recent stories came from, I don’t know,” he said. “I don’t know about a four-door TT.”

Back on November 9, Auto Express cited an anonymous source who claimed that the two-door TT was no longer sustainable.

“If you set falling demand against rising costs, it’s obvious Audi cannot sustain its present course in the medium term,” Auto Express reported at the time. “Instead, there has been intensive consideration of the coupe and the convertible in the compact segment.”

Despite that quote, though, the fact that sedan sales are sliding and that small cars are falling ever further out of favor, makes the Auto Express report feel dubious at best.

[source: CarAdvice]

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