Goodbye, ‘Tourist Trophy’: this is the very last Audi TT built

Earlier this year, Audi revealed the TT ‘Final Edition’, a car designed and built to celebrate 25 years since the original Bauhaus wonder first burst onto the scene and right into About a Boy … and to bid it a fare thee well. For it would be the last generation of Audi TT.

And this is the absolutely last ever TT unit. Because it is the absolutely last ever TT unit to have rolled off the production line. That’s it. No more TTs will be delivered into this world anew.

“With its series debut in 1998, the Audi TT made design history,” said Audi Germany’s Instagram post. “Now, after 25 years, the last TT Coupe has rolled off the assembly line in Györ, Hungary.”

This one’s a TTS, which pairs a 2.0-litre four-cylinder turbo petrol engine with four-wheel-drive (the name escapes us) and a seven-speed S tronic auto gearbox. It’s fast. It’s still pretty. And it’s a car… that sadly nobody’s buying anymore.

Not for the obvious reason that this is the last one and therefore it’s technically not possible to buy one, but because TT sales have rapidly been dwindling over the years. In the UK, Audi sold 2,672 TTs in 2022, which accounted for 33 per cent of all TTs sold across the globe last year.

Indeed, as the picture above expertly explains, Audi has sold 662,762 TTs since 1998. A drop in the ocean compared to an SUV or crossover, of course.

Which is a shame, because this third-generation car is the best iteration of TT since that original Bauhaus wonder, offers one of the finest car cabins ever designed, and remains an attractive, desirable item. We’re running one long-term, so click here to find out what life is like with (now) one of the rarest cars in the world…