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Written by Vijay Pattni
The Eighties Audi 90 IMSA GTO remains one of Top Gear"s coolest ever racing cars. An Audi 90 in name only, the turbocharged track car featured a 20-valve, 720bhp, 2.2-litre five-pot married up to one of the wildest bodies out there.It was cool. Audi knows this, and has used the 2017 SEMA show to debut a concept that pays due homage to the IMSA GTO. It is this, equally monstrous Clubsport TT concept.Information is sparse, but what little there is much like the concept packs a helluva punch. The one-off TT features a five-cylinder engine, just like its grandaddy, here a 2.5-litre unit hooked up to an electric turbo producing 592bhp. A little off the GTO"s power, but we"ll forgive it the odd 130bhp.Largely because Audi reckons this mad Clubsport will get to 62mph in just 3.6secs, and from there, a top speed of 192mph flat-out. We don"t need to draw any parallels with supercar exotics to understand that this is Fast. Yep, capital F.
Date written: 31 Oct 2017
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ID: 9772
The Eighties Audi 90 IMSA GTO remains one of Top Gear"s coolest ever racing cars. An Audi 90 in name only, the turbocharged track car featured a 20-valve, 720bhp, 2.2-litre five-pot married up to one of the wildest bodies out there.It was cool. Audi knows this, and has used the 2017 SEMA show to debut a concept that pays due homage to the IMSA GTO. It is this, equally monstrous Clubsport TT concept.Information is sparse, but what little there is much like the concept packs a helluva punch. The one-off TT features a five-cylinder engine, just like its grandaddy, here a 2.5-litre unit hooked up to an electric turbo producing 592bhp. A little off the GTO"s power, but we"ll forgive it the odd 130bhp.Largely because Audi reckons this mad Clubsport will get to 62mph in just 3.6secs, and from there, a top speed of 192mph flat-out. We don"t need to draw any parallels with supercar exotics to understand that this is Fast. Yep, capital F.
Date written: 31 Oct 2017
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 9772
