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2008 Chicago Auto Show: Yes! Roadster 3.2

OK, you've gotta respect anybody with the engineering pluck to take a front-drive Audi TT and turn it into a proper rear-drive sports car. Funke and Will's young engineers should have mixed in some art appreciation with their technical studies, 'cause the YES! (Young Engineers Sportscar) is dreadful to look at, even by bad-Deutsche-tuner standards.


Three-point-nine seconds to 60 notwithstanding, you'd have to really want "exclusivity" to part with Porsche 911 money for this...

-- Bill Visnic, Senior Editor, AutoObserver

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desmolicious says:

04:11 PM, 02/ 7/08

It looks like the unfortunate love child from an Audi TT and a Mitusbishi Eclipse.

firstwagon says:

07:44 PM, 02/ 7/08

I really want to like it, I really do but that styling just does not work.
 
Maybe they could get someone Italian to restyle it and then we'll talk.
 
Even a Saturn design team could do better.

ateixeira says:

02:26 PM, 02/11/08

Does it look like an Eclipse?
 
Yes!

firstwagon says:

03:53 PM, 02/11/08

But it's just over 1/2 the weight of an Eclipse which is what make it cool.

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