Driving overnight to the Italian launch of the Audi TT – in a second-hand Ur‑Quattro bought only hours before – was all in a (long) day’s work for issue 001 of evo…
invited us to the launch of the TT, in Umbria, Italy. Naturally we accepted but we didn’t want to do a plain-Jane first-drive review. We needed to show the world thatwas different. So, with the TT being a turbocharged, four-wheel-drive Audi coupe, there was only one car we wanted to bring along for our story, an Ur‑Quattro.
‘I wasn’t privy to the exact conversation, but I arrived at the office one Tuesday morning to find Gus asleep in hisAnd did they? ‘We left Gus’s house at 1am, reached Chamonix for a late breakfast, then shot in the mountains above Courmayeur that afternoon before chasing down the autostrada, with the sun setting behind us, to the TT’s launch location south of Rome.’s generous travel budget allowed for a twin room with single beds just about large enough for the world’s thinnest mattresses to be fitted, but the pizza was crisp and the beer cold. The following day Gus and I recce’d the area for the shoot.
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