There’s more than meets the eye to Audi’s Prologue Piloted Driving Concept that’s making its debut at the 2015 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas this week.
At a first glance, it gets a different, dark grey paint job and new set of alloy wheels on the outside, together with a black leather treatment for the upper section of the dashboard and the steering wheel on the inside, compared to the original Prologue Concept shown in LA last November.
A quick look at Audi’s release, reveals that the 597hp (605PS) and 750Nm (553.2 lb‑ft) 4.0-liter bi-turbocharged V8 is now aided by an electric motor that helps lift output to 668hp (677PS) and 950Nm (700.7 lb‑ft) of peak torque improving the large coupe’s 0-100km/h (62mph) time by 0.2 seconds to 3.5 sec, while also helping drop CO2 emissions from 199g/km to 185g/km.
As the name suggests, the Prologue Piloted Driving Concept also gets the latest version of Audi’s autonomous driving tech that relies on a series of systems, including the central driver assistance controller (zFAS) “that processes information gathered by the sensors to create a detailed impression of the car’s surroundings”.
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