...at last! So no problem after all just inexperienced drivers eh?

Taken off www.autobuild.de and auto-translated.

The public prosecutor's office Ingolstadt stopped all criminal procedures because of deadly accidents with the sports car Audi TT. One could determine no criminal responsibility of the Audi of company for breaking out the auto at high rate, indicated the leading senior public prosecutor Josef Grieser on Monday. Several appraisals would have resulted in no referring to structural defects. For the accidents the behavior of the drivers is responsible according to to the appraisals. The public prosecutor's office Ingolstadt assumes the eight cases from completely Germany country widely no further criminal procedures are as soon as the adjustment has been completed more because of safety lack of the Audi TT pending. The accusation bundled the procedures at the production location Ingolstadt. The Audi AG had recalled the models for a modifications, already delivered, after criticism at the handling and reports over accidents with the TT into the workshops. They were equipped with stabilizers, absorbers and spoilers. Besides the customers the liable to pay the costs nachruestung with an electronic stability program was offered. However Audi always stressed that it does not give a safety problem with the TT. Due to of appraisals that the car becomes unstable because of the handling of the steering wheel and not because of structural defects, indicated now the Ingolstaedter public prosecutor's office is to be assumed that. The experts of the public prosecutor's office would have compared, it were said the old Audi TT in wind tunnel and skid tests with the re-tooled version and other sports car. The tests would have resulted in that the Audi TT comes in its original version only during an abrupt steering movement with simultaneous braking into centrifuges. An analysis of accidents, in which a Audi TT was involved, has besides that frequently inexperienced sports car drivers with very high rate had an accident, was called resulted in it further. Thus half of the accidents occurred at a rate of at least 160 kilometers per hour. 47 per cent of the drivers still no sports cars would before have driven.

 

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The only problem is that Audi, in a clearly reactionary move, modified the cars so that they lost a fair amount of their sporting character.

Now that the car has been "officially" cleared, is it too much to hope that they might consider re-tuning the car closer to the original Mark I specs?

 

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2001 Amulet Red 225TTQC
AMULETT

 

I must say to accept the spoiler is a trade off for safety. Will Audi build a hidden spoiler like the Boxter?

 

160kph = 100mph right? I didn't realize that they were breaking free at such low speeds! ;-)

 

then how many of those have been converted...? In other words how many of the TT's are left with the MkI? I suspect my resale value just went up.. not that I intend to sell, Higgs won't let me.<p><img src="http://pictureposter.audiworld.com/AudiWorldPics/2000/hstock.jpg " border="0">

 

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Eric Burmeister
Des Moines, Iowa

 

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AMULETT

 

Someone told me that this was a problem at 80mph. I thought it was a problem at around 130mph.