Audi TT Roadster bumps Boxster to second choice

11/07/2008 18:08. As I pulled up to the four-way stop, top down despite the early morning's chilly start to the day, a couple of hulking guys in a blue Pontiac approached from the cross street. As I made my turn, one turned to the other and in a gravelly, deep rumble of a voice, growled, "God, that's sexy."

Since I was 99.99 per cent sure he wasn't talking about me, despite my tan, carefully groomed salt-and-pepper hair and aviator shades, I figured he was casting approval on my ride.

For what it's worth, I am in complete agreement with the guy -- Audi's second-generation TT roadster is sexy.

The first TT Roadster, which was introduced in 1999, has already acquired an almost unshakable buy-in as a future classic by virtue of its pure, almost geometrical exterior styling. For the second go-round, Audi... // Ottawa Citizen