Think the Q5 is a bit too small? Do you find the Q7 altogether too large? You’re in luck! Rather than simply continuing to bracket the meat of the German luxury SUV market, Audi is stretching and widening its Q5 chassis in order to directly challenge the “just right” Mercedes ML/BMW X5 segment. The end result is supposed to look more coupe-like (read: more BMW X6-like) than this pieced-together mule, as Auto Motor und Sport calls the Q6 the “sporting connection between Q5 and Q7.” Let’s hope those wild test wheels are an option when Q6s start rolling off production lines sometime in 2014.
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Never seen such funky wheels. Real story here may be that these pics show Audi testing some kind of electric drive system….
Those look an awful lot like wheel force transducers. It’s about time they went wireless; the hub-centric slip ring with the wires duct taped to the body work were failure points waiting to happen.
I think anybody can get them, but they’re kinda expensive somewhere in the neighborhood of $20k a piece if memory serves.
Yep. They’re “Kistler RoaDyn” wheel force sensors.
Oh joy.
Another luxury SUV.
Yeah – we were all crying out for another one.
If Porsche is any indication, there is no such thing as too much choice.
How is that a crossover and not just a wagon?
The article states that’s it’s a testing mule.
I don’t believe I’ve ever seen the B pillar go all the way down like that – well, like it says in the article – it’s a pieced together mule.
Have to ask why they would give it that pieced-together or stretched look instead of making one or both doors longer, or putting the extra length behind the rear door. Reminds me of the first couple of years of LWB Lincoln Town Cars where Ford was too cheap to reengineer the windows in the rear doors, so they inserted an ungainly filler panel.
Looks to me that Audi has designed the most generic-looking SUV possible. It’s all softly rounded and without much real distinction.