Auto executives get paid the big bucks to make decisions, and when they do, those decisions are often set in stone.
Unless that stone gets thrown away, as it apparently was when it comes to the Audi TT sport coupe.
Audi CEO Bram Schot told investors in May that Audi had to make cuts to planned future models, including the low-volume TT and R8 supercar, to help offset the costs of developing a full range of battery-electric vehicles. Both were to end after their current generations.
Audi’s Schot: “Of course there will be a successor.”
But Schot, a native of Rotterdam, told the Netherlands version of Autoblog that he was being inundated with questions and "whining" about the decision to cut the TT.
"I am a person of flesh and blood and I also like beautiful things," Schot said, according to an English translation of his comments. "Of course there will be a successor."
Tellingly, Schot did not specify if the TT's successor would retain its traditional gasoline-powered engine or become another one of the brand's future electrified offerings.
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