Audi cars at the 2011 Surat Auto Expo covered by IndianDrives team

The first manufacturer that we see, the moment we enter the arena is Vorsprung Durch Technik or rather Audi and man what a display they had on. Except for the Audi A6 and Audi Q5, each and every car in their lineup was on display. However as expected, the general public weren’t allowed to check the cars up close and personal. However being from the press has its own merits with the fact that we were allowed to check out each and every car out there on display. Parthiv Barot, the Sales Manager at Audi Ahmedabad was courteous enough to let us inside the barricade and was also quite cool in giving us all his gyaan about the different Audi cars on display.

Starting with the Audi TT, the cute roadster was the connoisseur of all the eyes and grabbed the maximum eyeballs. Its sleek form plus the traditional roadster silhouette was pleasing to look at. Inside, the car reeked of traditional Audi qualities like good build quality and use of high quality materials. The head space on offer for a 6 footer like me was commendable. Not that we haven’t seen the TT in flesh earlier but this time around it was something special, something which I couldn’t place exactly but it still was there.

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