Audi TT 1.8T Quattro: Front-wheel-drive?

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I've searched everywhere and I couldn't find anything other than a thread that had someone showing off his TT in the photos and videos section. A poster in the same subject thought the TT had a "Halidex AWD system", but I don't think so:

If anyone noticed in GT3, the 2000 Audi TT 1.8T Quattro would only put power to the front wheels, no matter how hard you hit the gas, even though it was called four-wheel-drive by the specifications. It can't be some all-wheel-drive system since the TT would never use its rear wheels to drive the car. I usually test a car's four-wheel-drive system by driving up the dirt part of Laguna Seca's corkscrew the wrong way. Usually anything other than 4WD gets stuck, and the TT does this as well, only confirming in fact the car has a front-wheel-drive system when you buy it with no modifications.

I bought the same car in GT4 (in the newer used cars section) to see if Polyphony Digital fixed the problem. As stock, the car still only drives the front wheels. And like in GT3, I have to buy the VCD system to make it drive the way it should have in the first place.

Has anyone noticed this other than me? It proves that the developers pretty much "copy and paste" the cars from GT3 into GT4 and never actually "drive" the car to notice this bug.
 
I've noticed this too.

It has to be the worst 4WD in the world doesn't it? Maybe they forgot to program it as 4WD, or maybe it's just as crap in RL?... :)
 
versace7866
quattro=4

so 4 wheel drive
i have like 3 audi TT's in the game and their all 4wd or quattro whatever u wana call it
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I think that opinionator is expressing his surprise that it seems to act like a front wheel drive car. If this is so, then we can deduce that he knows it's supposed to be 4WD, otherwise he'd also be surprised by the 147GTA, Ford Focus, all the Civics, and so on. (some of which act like FR cars in GT4...)

In the Audi's case, however, I think the FF characteristics may be a reasonably accurate representation of the real car. Road tests frequently state that the car understeers a lot and has dumb steering, esp. after the early handling upgrade that followed the crashes in Germany. Also, numb steering and understeer have been common traits of Audis for ages. Even the original Quattro was prone to ploughing on under power before the fitment of the central Torsen diff.
 

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