Motor Trend recently did a test drive of the Audi Quattro concept. The car was designed for the original Quattro’s 30th birthday, and they have been touring it around auto shows. It’s estimated to be worth 5.2 million. The car has created quite a buzz lately and for good reason.
Audi has yet to deny or confirm that it will be a production vehicle.
The car is about as awesome looking as they come. The big haunches and wide grill set it apart from anything that Audi has or any other car manufacturer for that matter. All round the car is spectacular, and then you get to the interior. It looks like a race car driver’s daily car, simple and clean yet functional. When I say clean I mean like hypoallergenic clean. The lines and combination of carbon fiber are perfect.
The car sports a five cylinder engine (from the TT RS), four wheel drive, and a flurry of other technologies, including a carbon fiber body. It’s blistering fast and light, weighing in at 2866 pounds. The original Quattro weighed 2838. Everything on this car is an homage to the original.
So why don’t they make it? The hard truth is Audi doesn’t really have a spot for it. It would fit in near the A5 (it shares the same frame) and with the other two door being the TT, there’s no point. I have a suggestion though.
The Audi halo car is the R8 for its amazing looks and performance. I’ve been in love with the car ever since it came out. What Audi could do is have a second halo car, but not for the streets. It needs to be where Audi and the original Quattro flourished, the dirt.
The original was a stripped out and barely street legal race car where technologies like four wheel drive in regular cars was proven. Many race cars owe their technologies now to this rally monster.
As the X Games and other rally competitions grow more popular every year, manufactures are getting great publicity coverage. Recently the sports have been dominated here in the states by Subaru and Mitsubishi. Ford though has gone into the circuit with the new Fiesta, trying to get a piece of that cake. Audi could create the car and use it for dirt racing and trickle the technologies from their down into their everyday cars like the Quattro of old did. The plan right now is to have the technologies in the concept showcased, but I think proving them would be more effective.
Or just make that the new A5, just saying.
Sourced from Motor Trend
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