Audi starts Facebook petition for the TT RS

Audi of America is doing what it can to convince its German bosses to send the TT RS our way.

A petition on the automaker's Facebook page says that “Audi is seriously rethinking its original plans for the range-topping TT model and wants to hear from you.”

As of Monday morning, the petition had gathered 3,742 signatures.

Currently, the TT line in the United States includes only the TT and the TTS. While the 2010 TT delivers 200 hp and 207 lb-ft of torque, the 2010 TTS features a 265-hp, 258-lb-ft four-cylinder engine.

However, both models are outdone by the RS, which features a 340-hp, 331-lb-ft five-cylinder engine.

In April, AW West Coast editor Mark Vaughn experienced the difference himself, after test-driving the RS and the TTS on the Willow Springs Raceway in Southern California.

“After a few laps of RS, we drove a mere TTS and barely felt the same yawing phenomenon, but without the smooth, wonderful power of the TT RS,” Vaughn noted.

By Izzi Bendall