Following the Audi TT-S we saw at the 2008 Detroit Auto Show, Audi has plans to bring even a more powerful version of the TT to the roads by 2010. And while many of us have come to known the car as the TT-RS, the badging of the car is a subject of controversy over at Volkswagen Group.
According to the April issue of AutoCar, the new powerful execs from Porsche who have a large influence in the company put a halt on the title. Porsche says that the RS badge belongs to them and only them when it comes at the end of a name.


Meaning Audi can go ahead and name as many as models as wants with the RS badge as long as they have a number at the end of it (for example the Audi RS6 Avant).

“Porsche has the monopoly on the ‘RS’ suffix in the VW Group,” said a Volkswagen source. “Audi can only use it as a prefix, as in ‘RS6’.
We’re glad we’re not the big shots at Porsche, Audi or Volkswagen. There seems to be a lot of unspoken animosity there.

 

Arguing over "RS" (Rennsport) designation about as silly as arguing over "GT"...

 

GT3 RS .... rennsport
GT3 RSR .... that one ?! dont tell me rennsportrenn ?

i think in 2050 porsche will find itself producing GT3 RSRSRSRSRSR

 

Reminds me of when BMW wanted to call the x5 4.6 the MX-5, but Mazda argued about it.