Audi's TT Shooting Brake for Paris?

The production version of the Audi TT Roadster will join the TT Coupe on the stand in Paris, but sources say they won’t be the only cars wearing TT badges in Paris next week.

Audi sources insist a Shooting Brake-style TT will also make its debut in Paris, based loosely on the concept cars it showed in Detroit and Beijing earlier this year.

The difference is this one has a genuine shot at becoming a production reality, with Audi’s Research and Development head, Doctor Ulrich Hackenberg, lined up in its corner.

Significantly, the concept car will be the last car designed during Wolfgang Egger’s reign as Audi design boss, with the first concept car from the all-new design language of ex-Volkswagen man Marc Lichte. Believed to be a large, sleek super-sedan/coupe dubbed the A9 by Audi sources, the car will mark the path for all of Audi’s future production cars.

In the meantime, that leaves the TT Shooting Brake concept as something of an orphan – or it would, if it didn’t already have two very successful body styles sharing its TT badge.

Doctor Hackenberg has said several times that he wants the TT to boast a third body variant, and a four-door coupe-style machine is out of the reckoning on wheelbase alone.

Instead, there are strong hints from inside Audi that it will be a Shooting Brake, possibly a slightly high-rise vehicle with SUV/SAV pretentions and just three doors.