One of the things that makes the TT especially pleasurable to drive is the excellent leg and foot room. There's a huge dead pedal, and a blissful pad for the side of the driver's right leg where it presses against the center stack and transmission tunnel, a feature that too many hard-cornering cars overlook. Ergonomics is a strong suit with modern Audi products.
Despite the low roofline, the Coupe is easy to climb into because of the leg room, but you have to watch your head on the way in.
Bolted inside the cabin are optional black Italian leather seats to die for. They fit beautifully, with extra bolstering for the thighs and torso. There's enough adjustment to allow for even very tall drivers, although with the bucket seats slid all the way back, don't count on two passengers in the jump seats. We had nine- and seven-year-old boys back there, and they were happy for a one-hour drive to the city, errands, and back. Packages will probably love it in those seats, although it's still easier to pop them in the trunk. As for storage nooks, there isn't much: door pockets and small glovebox and console.
The quality of materials and the fit and finish are superb, including a trim option with baseball-like stitching similar to that featured on the original TT concept car.
The instrument panel is beautifully laid out, and illuminated in red. The panel and dashboard area in the Audi TT are acknowledged as models of modern industrial design: easy to read, easy to use and understand. There is a decidedly racer-cool look about the simplicity of it all, with touches of stainless around the instrument bezels and air vents and other places, that other manufacturers have since copied for their interiors, all to the good.
One disappointing exception to the clarity of the instruments is the digital readout between the tach and speedo; there are four stacked items, with the radio station info on top and transmission gears on bottom, too small to quickly pick out and half-hidden by the hub of the steering wheel.
