Audi TT RS

If that’s not brisk enough for you, Audi’s go-faster quattro GmbH is developing a snarling RS flagship version that runs a 2.5-litre five-cylinder engine – effectively half the engine block from the RS6’s 5.0-litre V10 – that features the VW group’s innovative TSI twin-charge technology. And with both supercharger and turbo blower breathing hard, it’s going to be hell of a rocket – insiders talk of at least 350bhp, running through a rear-biased quattro drive for a far more dynamic driving experience. It’ll use the newly developed seven-speed S-tronic transmission and come with a heavily tweaked Magnetic Ride suspension system.

Looking every inch a coupe version of the recent TT Clubsport concept, the RS will ditch its rear seats to bring its kerb weight down to 1400kg. With a five second sprint to 60mph and eyeball-flattening mid-range punch, it should be able to show both the
Cayman S and Nissan 350Z the door and give M3 drivers a hard time, too.

At around £44,000 it won't be cheap, but being built by quattro GmbH it will be very exclusive and arguably a real successor to Audi’s seminal 1980 ur-Quattro. Yours in early 2009.