2007 Audi TT 3.2 V6 Quattro

Finished in Deep Sea Blue Pearl with black Nappa leather, ‘OE56 XJO’ is a 2007 Audi TT fitted with the 3.2-litre V6 engine that deploys its 250bhp to all four wheels via Audi’s iconic Quattro drivetrain and a six-speed manual gearbox.

And this is important, because the seller bought it for a road trip down to Spain – and there’s no point travelling that far unless you’re going to enjoy yourself to the full, is there?

Engineering aside, he picked well; with just one previous owner, it has been very well looked after over the years with no fewer than nine stamps in the service history booklet. 

They’ve now accomplished what they set out to do, so it’s now time for the TT to go to a new home.

If you’re looking for one of the fastest and most reliable all-weather inter-continental missiles pocket money can buy, read on.

Deep Sea Blue Pearl (paint code LZ5A) is a helluva colour, isn’t it? Sure, it might highlight the stonechips that pepper the front but this just turns a great looking car into a great looking car you can use as long and hard as you like without fear of, y’know, picking up stonechips.

(And you will want to use it long and hard; one of team remembers taking a new press car for a long drive in a thunderstorm, and he was pretty sure they were the fastest moving thing across north Wales that night.)

Its immaculate shutlines suggest that this is not a car with a story to tell. Factor in immaculate panel alignment, a perfect stance, a full complement of parking sensors, and a healthy lustre to the paintwork and we’re pretty sure you won’t find better for the price.

Not to mention the excellent condition of the 18-inch alloy wheels, always the first area to betray a careless owner. They weren’t in a bad condition when he bought the car but he decided to have them professional refurbished anyway because he’s that sort of chap. 

A full set of matching 245/40R18 Continental ContiSportContact 3 tyres are fitted to all four corners. Made in 2016, while they have a good depth of tread left, at nine years old it will soon be time to replace them. 

Nonetheless, we will never get tired of telling you that experience shows that matching high-quality tyres are an infallible sign of a caring and mechanically sympathetic owner who is prepared to spend the appropriate amount in maintaining their car properly. 

The lamp lenses are all good too, the badges are nice and shiny, and the door shuts are clean. 

As for blemishes, there is a scratch to the nearside of the front bumper, and few here and there as you'd expect from a car of this vintage.

If you like your car interiors sleek and yet ultra-durable, then you’re in for a treat because that’s exactly what Audi used to believe too.

As you can see in this example: It might be 18 years old but it is holding up incredibly well; even the outer bolsters of the driver’s seat, which in inferior cars is always the first place to go, are still firm and free of damage.

The front seats, which are heated and electrically adjustable, show no more wear than some light creasing too, while the rear seats are in an even better condition with nothing more than a few dimples marring their surface. 

It helps, of course, that the first owner paid for Nappa leather but even the bits in the cabin that aren’t smothered in leather still look fresh.

The fat-rimmed and flat-bottomed steering wheel works in concert with a short, snappy gearchange to offer a suitably sporting interface, something the alloy pedals and grippy seats support.

The headlining is still taut and undamaged, the dashboard and instruments are a model of both clarity and longevity, and even the netting pockets are still nice and tight.

The dashboard features an aftermarket phone holder, and the Audi Concert headunit plays through Bose speakers in the unlikely event you get bored of listening to the V6 engine do its thing. 

The metal boot floor is very clean and completely free of rust. The boot plays host to the (possibly unused) tool kit and tyre inflation system plus a luggage net, spare bulb set, and a fitted, breathable outdoor car cover. 

A luggage cover hides your suitcases and shopping from prying eyes, and the carpet both in here and in the main cabin is in an excellent condition.

If we are nitpicking, then the leather on the door cards is a bit loose but even that only stands out because the rest of the interior is so good. 

You will probably want to fix the switch for the door locks back into place though, but once that’s accomplished you can sit back with a beer and congratulate yourself on completing the list of interior jobs.

The 3.2-litre V6 in this example boasts a whopping 247bhp and 258 lb.ft of torque, enough to propel the TT to an artificially limited top speed of 155mph, figures that would have been the preserve of supercars only a decade earlier. 

Which means it deserves some love, which is exactly what it got:

• 20.01.2007 – pre-delivery inspection by Oxford Audi
• 05.10.2011 and 8,602 miles – service by Oxford Audi
• 22.01.2010 and 17,499 miles – service by Oxford Audi
• 05.10.2011 and 26,007 miles – service by Oxford Audi
• 13.03.2013 and 34,733 miles – service by Oxford Audi
• 24.07.2014 and 44,922 miles – service by Newbury Audi
• 15.07.2016 and 58,311 miles – service by Didcot Auto Centre
• 13.07.2018 and 58,363 miles – service by Newbury Audi

The car was parked up between 2019 and 2024 in the seller’s village. He and one of his friends, who is a local mechanic, admired it from afar and eventually persuaded the owner to sell it – but he’d only do so to someone he knew, and as he knew the seller’s friend but not the seller, his mechanic became the second name on the V5 registration document!

He'd always intended to use it for a forthcoming road trip with his friends to his villa in Spain, so the pair wasted no time in getting it recommissioned.

His friend (who runs a local garage) did the work as a favour, so there is no paperwork but we are told the work included:

• A full overhaul of the braking system including new calipers, discs and pads all round, along with a new handbrake cable, pipes and hoses, ABS parts, and a brake switch.
• A new heavy-duty battery was fitted. 
• The headlamps were polished and fitted with new H7 bulbs.
• The windscreen was resealed.
• The air-conditioning system was recommissioned and re-gassed.
• New front springs and top mounts were installed.

It was also serviced, both before and after the 1,800-mile trip, during which the seller says “it was easily the best of the four cars we took!”

• 25.08.2024 and 65,124 miles – service
• 13.08.2025 and 67,992 miles – service

As you’d expect of an Audi, it starts instantly, idles very well, makes all the right noises when it is revved, and does it all without illuminating any warning lights 

The engine bay makes the most of the 3.2-litre, V6 engine showing it off to great effect – but then if you’ve got it, why not flaunt it? It’s also very clean under the bonnet with nothing more than the usual tarnishing to the alloy components and some rusty fasteners to show its age.

It’s the same story underneath, with rusty bolts and suspension components plus a few scratches to the plastic undertray being the only sign it’s old enough to vote.

The Audi’s MoT certificate is valid until August 2026 and, like so many before, it was issued with no advisories.

The TT comes with two key fobs, the stamped service history booklet, and the Audi wallet and book pack.

A study published in 2019 identified the Audi TT as the sportscar most likely to exceed 150,000 miles, which tells you all you need to know about the quality of its engineering. 

Which is also evident in the condition of this example.

And this is, you’ll recall, a car that can reach the national speed limit in around four seconds – and it’ll do it no matter what conditions are like underfoot.

Keep it well serviced and the TT may well have another 82,000 miles of life left in it, which makes our estimate of between £6,000 and £10,000 seem very reasonable because even at the top end – and assuming it would be worth nothing at the end – that works out to just 12 pence/mile in depreciation.

And what’s even more reasonable is the seller is such a lovely bloke he’s offering it with no reserve, so it’s going to sell no matter what.

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