The original TT (Typ 8N) shared its A4 (PQ34) platform with the Volkswagen Golf Mk4 and the first-generation Audi A3, and its curved, minimal bodywork (inspired, Audi’s design team later said, by Bauhaus) was novel enough at launch to be blamed, rightly or not, for a series of high-speed accidents.[1] The fix was a rear spoiler, revised suspension and standard stability control, retrofitted across the range from 1999-2000.
Neither the generation infobox nor the detailed per-engine table in this article gives a kerb weight, an unusual gap for a Wikipedia car article this thorough. NHTSA’s Canadian Vehicle Specifications register fills it for the 1999 model year quattro coupé, and, notably, files the six-cylinder 3.2 VR6 under the very same 1,455 kg entry as the four-cylinder 1.8T, rather than a separate, heavier figure, which is recorded here rather than assumed to be wrong.