In the wake of an announcement on the addition of its smallest SUV yet, the Q1 with a production date set for 2016, Audi today released a batch of sketches previewing a new two-door concept for a compact crossover that will make its world premiere at next month’s Detroit Motor Show.
Audi did not specifically mention the Q1 in the concept’s release, but it makes plenty of sense to say that it will provide clues to the styling direction it will take with the upcoming production small SUV.
“The show car is a systematic development of the Audi design language,” said the brand with the four rings in a statement, adding that, “It combines a host of visual elements from future models with the Audi-typical allroad concept and independent ‘Shooting Brake’ body style.”
Measuring 4,200mm or 165.4 inches in length, the three-door study is 185mm or 7.2 inches shorter than the Q3 compact crossover, with Audi pointing out, but refraining from going into any details, that it is an e-tron model, which is Ingolstadt’s moniker for plug-in hybrid (PHEV) and pure-electric cars.
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