Autoforma rebuilds the 1995 Audi TT Concept as a one-off TTS

May 14. A Dutch bespoke car studio called Autoforma finished a one-off Audi TTS that reconstructs the 1995 TT Concept down to the stitching pattern. The car is a 2015 TTS donor chassis, recut and rebodied to match the proportions of the original concept car that preceded the production TT by three years.

The brief was strict. The client wanted the concept's tighter rake, the specific yellow from the 1995 show car, and the interior stitching that ran perpendicular to the seat bolster rather than parallel. Autoforma pulled the original concept's CAD files from Audi's archive and cross-referenced them with the production TTS platform. The result is narrower at the hips, lower at the roofline, and reads cleaner in profile than the production car ever did.

The interior is where the forensic work shows. The seats are reupholstered in a darker leather than the TTS standard, with contrast stitching that mirrors the 1995 concept's baseball-glove aesthetic. The dashboard is stripped of the production car's infotainment screen and replaced with a minimalist gauge cluster that Autoforma fabricated in-house. No touchscreen, no nav, no Bluetooth pairing prompt on startup.

Autoforma has done restomods before, mostly Porsche 911s and a handful of BMW E30s, but this is the first time the studio has taken a modern platform and worked backward to a concept car rather than forward to a race-spec build. The TTS donor chassis means the car is drivable as a daily, but the proportions make it read as a museum piece that somehow landed registration papers.

The car debuted at a private event in Rotterdam last week. No plans for a series. Autoforma's site lists the project as commission-only, which suggests this was a one-client job with no intent to productize. The original 1995 concept sits in Audi's Ingolstadt museum. This one will sit in a private collection somewhere in the Netherlands, parked next to whatever else the client commissioned before this.