Audi R8 doppelganger

UK based tuning shop Niche has developed an exterior treatment to transform your humble TT into the thoroughbred R8.

Along with the R8-inspired body panels, for an £8800 ($A20,000) price tag you will also receive nine-spoke alloy wheels, lowered suspension and dual exhaust outlets.

Does this mean the elegant TT will meet the same fate as the Mitsubishi Lancer Evo V, where every kid with a few hundred dollars could transform his mum's hand-me-down 1.5-litre Lancer into the mighty Evo - stickers included? While this a kit for rich people it smacks of the same cheesy shortcut philosophy - perhaps if it had the V8 to match?

Source: CarScoop